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| ADRENAL PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES George Chrousos - Editor |
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| Chapter Title | Author | |
| 1. | Adrenal Cortex, Development and Anatomy, Physiology | I. Vrezas, H.S. Willenberg, and S.R. Bornstein |
| 2. | Glucocorticoids (Synthesis, action, physiology) | Tomoshige Kino and George Chrousos, MD |
| 3. | Adrenal Androgens | Elpida Sidiropoulou, Lucia Ghizzoni,MD and George Mastorakos |
| 4. | CRH, VP, ACTH- Control and Secretion | Hyperlink to Neuroendocrinology |
| 5. | ACTH Action on the Adrenal | Andrew N. Margioris, M.D. and Christos Tsatsanis, Ph.D. |
| 6. | Glucocorticoid Receptor | Tomoshige Kino, M.D., Ph.D., Evangelia Charmandari, M.D. and George P. Chrousos, M.D. |
| 7. | Glucocorticoid-Induced
Osteoporosis Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Implications |
Salvatore Alesci, MD and Ioannis Ilias, MD |
| 8. | Stress, Endocrine Physiology and Pathophysiology | Eva Kassi, MD, Constantine Tsigos, MD, Ioannis Kyrou, MD, WISDEM, and George P. Chrousos, MD, MACP, FRCP |
| 9. | Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and the Immune/Inflammatory Response | Markella Nezi, MD, Vasiliki Trianti-Dimoleni, MD, and George Mastorakos, MD, DSc |
| 11. | Cushing's Syndrome (hypercorticolism) | Damian Morris, MBBS,PhD,FRCP, and Ashley B Grossman, MD, PhD |
| 12. | Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia | Maria I New, MD and Ian Marshall, MD |
| 13. | Adrenal Insufficiency | Nicolas C. Nicolaides,MD, Evangelia Charmandari,MD George P. Chrousos, MD |
| 14. | Glucocorticoid Therapy and Adrenal Suppression | Aikaterini N Pavlaki, MD, Maria A Magiakou,MD and George Chrousos, MD |
| 15. | Familial or Sporadic Adrenal Hypoplasia Syndromes | Maria Karaflou, Evangelia Charmandari, Amalia Sertedaki, George P. Chrousos |
| 16. | Glucocorticoid Resistance Syndromes and States | Allesandro Vottero, MD, and George Chrousos Friedman,MD |
| 17. | Adrenal Insuffciency Due To X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy | Gregory Kaltsas, MD, George Kanakis, MD, and Hugo Moser, MD |
| 18. | Pseudo- Cushing's States | Ioannis I. Androulakis, Gregory Kaltsas and George Chrousos |
| 19. | AIDS /HPA Axis | Tomoshige Kino, MD |
| 20. | Adrenal Incidentalomas | Martin Reincke, MD |
| 21. | Carney's Complex | Gregory Kaltsas, MD, FRCP, George Kanakis, MD and George Chrousos, MD, MACE, MACP, FRCP |
| 22. | Current Issues in the Diagnosis and Management of Adrenocortical Carcinomas | Eva Kassi, MD, Gregory Kaltsas, MD FRCP, George Zografos, MD, and George Chrousos, MD, MACP, FRCP |
| 23. | Aldosterone Excess | Florencia Halperin, M.D., Erik K. Alexander MD, and Robert Dluhy,MD |
| 24. | Aldosterone Deficiency and Resistance | Keiko Arai,MD, Tamotsu Shibasaki, MD, and George P Chrousos, MD |
| 25. | Hormones of the Cardiovascular System | Rainer U. Pliquett, Ralf Paschke, Christian A. Koch |
| 26. | Overview of Endocrine Hypertension | Christian A. Koch, M.D., FACP, FACE, and Karel Pacak, M.D., Ph.D., DSc |
| 27. | Circadian Rythms of the HPA Axis and Stress | Gilberto Paz-Filho, M.D.,Ma-Li Wong, M.D., and Julio Licinio, M.D. |
| 28. | Neuroendocrine Effects on Immune System | Ilia Elenkov,MD |
| 29. | George Boutzios, MD and Gregory Kaltsas, MD |
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| 30. | Multiple Autoimmune Endocrinopathy | Anjli Kukreja,PhD and Noel MacLaren,MD |
| 31. | HPA Axis and Sleep | Alexander Vgontzas,MD |
| 33a. | Fibromyalgia | Gregory Kaltsas, MD, and Konstantinos Tsiveriotis, MD |
| 33b. | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | B. D.J. Torpy, C. White, A.W. Bachmann, and R. Young |
| 34. | Pheochromocytomas | Karel Pacak,MD |
| 35. | Von Hippel Lindau Syndrome | Sven Gläsker, MD, Hartmut P.H. Neumann, MD, Christian A. Koch, MD and Alexander O. Vortmeyer, MD |