Anorexia / editor-in-chief, Gerald Litwack, PhD, Toluca Lake, North Hollywood, California.

Other author Litwack, Gerald.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoLondon, UK : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2013.
Descriptionxviii, 368 pages, [3] pages of color plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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SeriesVitamins 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9780124104730
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