Anorexia / editor-in-chief, Gerald Litwack, PhD, Toluca Lake, North Hollywood, California.
| Other author | Litwack, Gerald. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | London, UK : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2013. |
| Description | xviii, 368 pages, [3] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Book Series Package - Life Sciences [BSLFSC] |
| Subjects |
| Series | Vitamins and hormones, 0083-6729 ; volume 92 Vitamins and hormones ; volume 92. ^A1041106 |
| Contents | Novel neurostatins in the control of food intake : neuronostatin and nesfatin-1 / Gina L. C. Yosten -- Anorexia and hypothalamic degeneration / Ida A. K. Nilsson, Charlotte Lindfors, Martin Schalling, Tomas Hökfelt, and Jeanette E. Johansen -- The role of ghrelin in anorexia-cachexia syndromes / Bobby Guillory, Andres Splenser, and Jose Garcia -- Ghrelin gene variants and eating disorders / Tetsuya Ando -- Steroid metabolism and excretion in anorexia nervosa / Wassif Samuel Wassif and Andrew Rashad Ross -- Anorexia nervosa and estrogen receptors / Nicolas Ramoz, Audrey Versini, and Philip Gorwood -- Cannabinoid receptors and cholecystokinin in feeding inhibition / Francisco Alé́n, M. Teresa Ramírez-López, Raquel Gómez de Heras, Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca, and Laura Orio -- Treatment of cachexia : melanocortin and ghrelin interventions / Jeremy Steinman and Mark Danel DeBoer -- The influence of estrogen therapies on bone mineral density in premenopausal women with anorexia nervosa and amenorrhea / Jocelyn Lebow and Leslie Sim -- Clinical and hormonal variables related to bone mass loss in anorexia nervosa patients / María Luisa Fernández-Soto, Amalia González-Jimé́nez, Marta Chamorro-Fernández, and Socorro Leyva-Martínez -- Mechanism-based therapeutic approaches to cachexia / Fabio Penna, Gabriella Bonelli, Francesco M. Baccino, and Paola Costelli -- Cisplatin-induced anorexia and ghrelin / Tomohisa Hattori, Koji Yakabi, and Hiroshi Takeda -- Anorexia of aging / Zbigniew Kmieć, Erika Pé́tervári, Márta Balaskó, and Miklós Szé́kely. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014469755 |
| ISBN | 9780124104730 |
| ISBN | 0124104738 |