TY - CHAP AU - Emrah Yerlikaya AU - Fulya Akin ED - Monica Fedele Y1 - 2013-05-08 PY - 2013 T1 - The Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in the Human Pathology N2 - This book covers a selected number of hot topics in endocrine and hormone-related pathologies, discussed by eminent scientists and clinicians coming from different countries of the world. It deals with advanced recent trends in the field, including neuroendocrine and pituitary tumors, thyroid dysfunctions, diabetes and a series of endocrine-related diseases, such as those related to the anabolic effects of testosterone, obesity, cancer, the liver complications of diabetes and the pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. The readers should be able to have a basic, as well as critic and advanced, overview of these selected hot pathologies of the endocrine system. BT - Hot Topics in Endocrine and Endocrine-Related Diseases SP - Ch. 8 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/55213 DO - 10.5772/55213 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -