Endocrinology and Metabolism: Progress in Research and Clinical Prac- tice is a new series that has been designed to present timely, critical reviews of constantly evolving fields; to provide practical and up-to-date guidance in the solution of pertinent clinical problems; to offer an alterna- tive to the laborious search of the literature (and the often frustrating reading of highly technical articles); and to translate the language of the laboratory into that of the practice of medicine. We think that this volume and those to come will prove useful to physi- cians (and to physicians in training), as well as to investigators in a wide variety of specialties; in short, to anyone who seeks answers to questions in endocrinology and metabolism. The first chapter of this volume could well serve as a general introduc- tion to the entire series. It points out how our growing understanding of the molecular basis of biologic communication has led to the discovery of a growing number of clinical syndromes, as well as to the realization that phenotypically similar diseases may have radically different pathogenetic mechanisms and thus may require radically different therapeutic strata- gems.
| Author: Margo P. Cohen |
| Publisher: Springer |
| Publication Date: Dec 14, 2011 |
| Number of Pages: 271 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1461291437 |
| ISBN-13: 9781461291435 |
