Metabolism of Human Diseases | Eckhard Lammert, Martin Zeeb

Principles of Metabolism and Its Common Diseases examines the metabolism of key organs (e. g. pancreas, liver, fat, heart, lung, bone or brain) and how defective metabolism in these organs contributes to common human diseases, including diabetes mellitus, cirrhosis, metabolic syndrome, asthma, heart failure, stroke, arteriosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, hypertonia, cancer, arthritis and neurodegenerative diseases. Finally, the book describes commonly used drugs and explains how they are applied to treat these diseases, their molecular mechanisms and metabolism. It provides the first comprehensive and detailed summary of the metabolism of individual organs and their physiological and pathological functioning. Principles of Metabolism is a must-have, state-of-the-art work written for graduate students, post docs and professors in biochemistry, physiology and metabolic research, as well as for physicians treating metabolic diseases.