Vitamin D: Volume One: 1 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123870356 ISBN 13: 9780123870353

Publisher: Academic Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Third Edition of this classic compendium, Vitamin D, is the most comprehensive, authoritative reference available in the field. In two volumes and over 100 chapters, the editors and authors have marshaled all currently available data on the basic mechanisms, normal physiology and effects on disease of Vitamin D; they have laid out for the reader up-to-date and expert information on the role of vitamin D in health and many disorders. With new chapters on multiple cancers, this complete reference work is essential for anyone working in endocrinology, osteology, bone biology, or cancer research.

Volume One chapters cover the chemistry and metabolism of vitamin D, role in mineralization, other target organs, and general physiological effects. Volume Two is more clinically oriented addressing deficiency problems (including diagnosis, interactions in the endocrine system, and involvement in malignancies). Volumes One and Two are now sold separately in print. Volume One ISBN: 9780123870353; Volume Two ISBN: 9780123870346.

• Most comprehensive, authoritative reference on Vitamin D
• Volumes One and Two now sold separately
• Volume One chapters cover the chemistry and metabolism of vitamin D, role in mineralization, other target organs, and general physiological effects
• Volume Two is more clinically oriented addressing deficiency problems (including diagnosis, interactions in the endocrine system, and involvement in malignancies)
• Offers 32 new chapters on squamous cell cancer, brain cancer, thyroid cancer and many more; new sections include emerging uses for treatments of auto-immune diseases and diabetes
• Over 600 illustrations and figures available on Companion website

About this title

Review:

Now available in two separate volumes, this third edition of Vitamin D is packed with over 100 chapters covering such new topics as brain and thyroid cancer

About the Author:

David Feldman, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine (Active) at Stanford University School of Medicine where he has been on the faculty since 1974. He has been a full professor since 1984 and was chief of the Endocrinology Division for 10 years. His laboratory studies the role of steroid hormone receptors, particularly the vitamin D receptor, and its mechanism of action. His current major research focus is hormone-dependent cancer including breast cancer and prostate cancer and the pathways by which vitamin D inhibits cancer growth. Professor Feldman is actively involved in both basic science approaches to the anti-cancer actions of vitamin D as well as to clinical trials studying the use of vitamin D in breast and prostate cancer. Professor Feldman was recently honored with an award for a Career of Outstanding Contributions to Vitamin D Research. He has authored over 290 medical research articles, reviews, editorials, and book chapters. In addition to being a co-editor of all four editions of OSTEOPOROSIS, he is the editor-in-chief of Vitamin D, just published in its third edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0123870356
• ISBN 13: 9780123870353
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1118
• Editor: Feldman Dr. David, Pike Dr. J. Wesley, Adams John S.