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