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Title:

Genetic steroid disorders / edited by Maria I. New, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Director, Adrenal Steroid Disorders, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA, Oksana Lekarev, DO, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA, Assistant Attending Pediatrician, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA, Alan Parsa, MD, Associate Faculty Member, Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Tony T. Yuen, PhD, Instructor Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA, Bert O'Malley, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX, USA, Gary D. Hammer, MD, PhD, Millie Schembechler Professor of Adrenal Cancer, Director, Endocrine Oncology Program - Comprehensive Cancer Center, Director - Center for Organogenesis, Department of Internal Medicine - Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes, Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Publisher:

Academic Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Subject:

Endocrine glands--Diseases.
Genetic disorders.
Steroids--Diseases.
Steroid hormones--Diseases.--Diseases.
Steroid hormones--Diseases.--Diseases.
Adrenogenital syndrome.
Disorders of Sex Development.

Other Authors:

New, Maria I., 1928- editor of compilation.
Lekarev, Oksana, editor of compilation.
Parsa, Alan, editor of compilation.
Yuen, Tony T., editor of compilation.
O'Malley, Bert W., editor of compilation.
Hammer, Gary D., editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Adrenal development -- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia owing to 21-hydroxylase deficiency -- The history of prenatal diagnosis of congenital adrenal hyperplasia -- Growth hormone therapy to improve adult height in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia -- Steroid 11[beta]-hydroxylase deficiency and related disorders -- Ambiguous genitalia in newborns -- 3[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency -- Genetic deficiencies of cytochrome P450c17 (CYP17A1): combined 17-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency and isolated 17,20-lyase deficiency -- p450 Oxidoreductase deficiency (PORD) -- Disorders in the initial steps in steroidogenesis -- Aromatase deficiency and aromatase excess -- 46, XY DSD due to 17[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 deficiency -- Steroid 5[alpha]-reductase 2 deficiency -- Marsupial pathway in humans -- Androgen insensitivity syndrome -- Apparent mineralocortoid excess -- The history, biology, and pathophysiology of apparent mineralocorticoid excess -- Glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism -- The genetics of ovotesticular disorders of sex development -- The persistent M©ơllerian duct syndrome -- Treatment and outcome of congenital adrenal hyperplasia: current reconstructive surgery -- Psychoendocrinology of congenital adrenal hyperplasia -- Nuclear receptor co-regulators -- Genetics of adrenal tumors -- Animal models of adrenal genetic disorders -- The impact of genetic steroid disorders on human fertility -- Preimplantation diagnosis and other modern methods for prenatal diagnosis -- Geographical endocrinology of genetic steroid disorders -- Debates and controversies in genetic steroid disorders -- Genetic factors in cushing disease pathogenesis -- Case reports of unsolved mysteries of steroid disorders: 46,XY DSD with one clue -- Index.

ISBN:

9780124160064
0124160069

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863145703

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)