Testosterone
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Testosterone

Action, Deficiency, Substitution

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eBook - PDF

Testosterone

Action, Deficiency, Substitution

About this book

Now in its fourth edition Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive source of information on testosterone and its role in human physiology and pathology. It covers biosynthesis and mechanisms of action and reviews their effects on brain and behavior, spermatogenesis, hair growth, bones, muscles, erythropoiesis, the cardiovascular system and the prostate. The therapeutic uses of testosterone preparations are carefully evaluated as well as its abuse and detection in competitive sport. This new edition also devotes sections to exploring the effects of testosterone on female physiology and sexual function, and the experimental use of testosterone in male hormonal contraception. Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution has been written and edited by world experts in the fields of clinical andrology and endocrinology and provides a unique and invaluable guide for andrologists, endocrinologists, urologists, internists and those working in reproductive medicine.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Testosterone: Action, Deficiency, Substitution: Fourth Edition
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 The medical and cultural history of testosterone and the testes
  9. Chapter 2 Testosterone: biosynthesis, transport, metabolism and (non-genomic) actions
  10. Chapter 3 Pathophysiology of the androgen receptor
  11. Chapter 4 Methodology for measuring testosterone, dihydrotestosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin in a clinical setting
  12. Chapter 5 The behavioral correlates of testosterone
  13. Chapter 6 The role of testosterone in spermatogenesis
  14. Chapter 7 Androgens and hair: a biological paradox with clinical consequences
  15. Chapter 8 Testosterone and bone
  16. Chapter 9 Androgen effects on the skeletal muscle
  17. Chapter 10 Testosterone and cardiovascular disease
  18. Chapter 11 Testosterone, obesity, diabetes and the metabolic syndrome
  19. Chapter 12 Testosterone and erection
  20. Chapter 13 Testosterone and the prostate
  21. Chapter 14 Clinical use of testosterone in hypogonadism and other conditions
  22. Chapter 15 Testosterone preparations for clinical use in males
  23. Chapter 16 Androgens in male senescence
  24. Chapter 17 Androgen therapy in non-gonadal disease
  25. Chapter 18 Review of guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of testosterone deficiency
  26. Chapter 19 Pathophysiology of estrogen action in men
  27. Chapter 20 Dehydroepiandrosterone and androstenedione
  28. Chapter 21 The state-of-the-art in the development of selective androgen receptor modulators
  29. Chapter 22 The essential role of testosterone in hormonal male contraception
  30. Chapter 23 Testosterone use in women
  31. Chapter 24 Detection of illegal use of androgens and selective androgen receptor modulators
  32. Chapter 25 Sequelae of doping with anabolic steroids
  33. Index