The Pituitary

Features:

• Provides a detailed description of the wide spectrum of clinical disorders emanating from the dysfunction of the “master gland” and the fundamental science underlying pituitary dysfunction
• Brings together pituitary experts from all areas of research and practice who take readers all the way from bench research to genomic and proteomic analysis, clinical analysis, and new therapeutic approaches
• Describes the mechanisms for disease pathogenesis, including both subcellular and extrinsic mechanisms that subserve normal and disordered pituitary hormone secretion and action

Table Of Contents:

SECTION I: HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY FUNCTION
1. Pituitary Development
JACQUES DROUIN AND JONATHAN BRIERE
2. Hypothalamic Regulation of Anterior Pituitary Function
ANAT BEN-SHLOMO AND SHLOMO MELMED
3. Adrenocorticotrophin
LINDSEY S. GASTON AND JOSEPH A. MAJZOUB
4. Growth Hormone
VIVIEN S. HERMAN-BONERT AND SHLOMO MELMED
5. Prolactin
ROSA MARIA PARAGLIOLA, NADINE BINART, AND ROBERTO SALVATORI
6. Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone
LAYAL CHAKER AND ROBIN P. PEETERS
7. Gonadotrophin Hormones
ANA PAULA ABREU AND URSULA B. KAISER
8. The Posterior Pituitary
DANIEL G. BICHET

SECTION II: HYPOTHALAMIC-PITUITARY DISORDERS
9. The Hypothalamus
ANDREA GIUSTINA, AGNESE ALLORA, STEFANO FRARA, ALFIO SPINA, AND PIETRO MORTINI
10. Anterior Pituitary Failure
ELENA V. VARLAMOV AND MARIA FLESERIU
11. Pituitary-Immune Interface
MASAAKI YAMAMOTO AND YUTAKA TAKAHASHI
12. Pituitary Dysfunction in Systemic Disorders
PEDRO MARQUES AND MARTA KORBONITS
13. Drugs and Pituitary Function
MONICA R. GADELHA, LUIZ EDUARDO WILDEMBERG, AND LEANDRO KASUKI
14. The Pituitary Gland in Pregnancy
ANDREA GLEZER AND MARCELLO D. BRONSTEIN

SECTION III: PITUITARY ADENOMAS
15. Acromegaly
SHLOMO MELMED
16. Prolactinoma
PHILIPPE CHANSON AND DOMINIQUE MAITER
17. Cushing’s Disease
ALBERTO M. PEREIRA AND OLAF M. DEKKERS
18. Nonfunctioning and Gonadotrophin-Secreting Adenomas
NIKI KARAVITAKI AND JOHN A.H. WASS
19. Thyrotrophin-Secreting Pituitary Adenomas
YONA GREENMAN
20. Aggressive Pituitary Adenomas
GERALD RAVEROT
21. Genetics of Pituitary Adenoma Syndromes
ADRIAN F. DALY AND ALBERT BECKERS
22. Nonpituitary Sellar Masses
LUIS V. SYRO, FABIO ROTONDO, OLGA MOSHKIN, AND KALMAN KOVACS

SECTION IV: PITUITARY PROCEDURES
23. Pituitary Imaging
WAIEL A. BASHARI, DANIEL GILLETT, JAMES MACFARLANE, DANIEL SCOFFINGS, AND MARK GURNELL
24. Pituitary Surgery
ADAM N. MAMELAK
25. Radiotherapy in the Management of Pituitary Adenomas
ROMAN O. KOWALCHUK, DANIEL M. TRIFILETTI, PAUL D. BROWN, AND JASON P. SHEEHAN