Published March, 2012
By Per Glud Ovesen, Dorte Moller Jensen and Dorte Møller Jensen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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A dramatic and worldwide increase is occurring in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in women of childbearing age. Obese women carry a significant excess risk of a variety of serious complications during pregnancy, and in addition, maternal obesity predisposes to obesity in the offspring.

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Published March, 2012
By Felix Ehrlenspiel and Katharina Strahler
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Published March, 2012
By Maria Dufau
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Current Topics in Molecular Endocrinology
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I am quite sure that this first Workshop on the Testis will initiate aseries of important contributions to scientific thought in male reproduc tive biology.

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Published March, 2012
By Frederick Singer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Topics in bone and mineral disorders
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Paget's disease is an old disease historically, but a new disease therapeutic ally.

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Published March, 2012
By John A. Thomas
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The use of performance-enhancing substances by athletes is not a contemporary epi demic. In most in stances, such early examples of substance abuse by athletes involved relatively in nocuous chemicals, and one might presume that any enhanced performance could be attributed largely to a placebo effect.

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Published March, 2012
By Shimon Efrat
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Stem Cell Therapy for Diabetes, one of the latest installments of the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine series, reviews the three main approaches for generation of sufficient numbers of insulin-producing cells for restoration of an adequate beta-cell mass: beta-cell expansion, stem-cell differentiation, and nuclear reprogramming.

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Published March, 2012
By G.J. Biessels, Jose A. Luchsinger and Geert Jan Biessels
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Diabetes
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This relevant and easily accessible book explains the cerebral complications of diabetes, with an update on diabetes for neurologists, psychiatrists, and mental health providers and researchers in general,and on stroke and dementia for those involved in research and clinical practice in diabetes.

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Published February, 2012
By Nicholas A. Romas and E.Darracott Vaughan
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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For many years, patients who complained of prostatism had only a few treatment choices. The patient was either a candidate for an elective prostatectomy, or the operation was deferred until the patient became more symptomatic.

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Published February, 2012
By J. Chayen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Monographs on Endocrinology
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The cytochemical bioassay system was described in a short abstract in 1971, and more fully, in the cytochemical bioassay of corticotrophin, in 1972.

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Published February, 2012
By Cord Sturgeon
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Cancer Treatment and Research
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Endocrine Neoplasia is a comprehensive, updated, and clearly-written text covering the diseases for which endocrine surgical expertise is often needed.

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