Catecholamines: Physiology, Pharmacology, and Pathology for Students and Clinicians

by Lewis Landsberg MD

Overview

Comprehensive and clinically relevant, this monograph provides an authoritative summary of how catecholamines regulate bodily functions in health and in disease, and how this knowledge has spawned an extensive pharmacopeia of widely used drugs. Renowned researcher and educator Dr. Lewis Landsberg offers solid information and guidance on these complex hormones, brought together in a single-source reference that helps both students and clinicians fully understand catecholamines and the sympathoadrenal system.
Key Features

• Covers fundamental aspects of catecholamine biology, as well as physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, and tumors of the sympathoadrenal system.
• Provides easily understood, concise coverage of difficult concepts, all in one convenient volume.
• Ideal for medical and graduate students and educators, as well as clinicians in internal medicine, cardiology, endocrinology, critical care, anesthesiology, and pharmacology.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496375315
Publisher:	LWW
Publication date:	06/13/2017
Edition description:	First
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Dr. Lewis Landsberg was graduated Summa Cum Laude from Williams College in 1960 and from Yale University School of Medicine in 1964. Following residency training in internal medicine at Yale he pursued a research fellowship at the NIH in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Julius Axelrod. After two years on the faculty of Yale, Dr. Landsberg was recruited to Harvard Medical School where he was promoted to Professor of Medicine in 1986. In 1990 he joined the faculty of Northwestern University as the Irving S. Cutter Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine and in 1999 was appointed Dean of the School of Medicine. On the occasion of his retirement as Dean, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, its medical staff, and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation made an extraordinary gift of endowment to create and name the Lewis Landsberg Deanship.

Editorial Reviews

"outstanding contribution to the area and would be an excellent introductory overview for students of the sympathoadrenal system."
"profoundly rich, balancing the amount of content with what's needed to understand the relevant physiology and pathology that the catecholamines underlie."
"The author directs this book at medical and graduate students and practicing clinicians to whom an understanding of the catecholamines and the autonomic systems they subserve is relevant to their work."
"The author is a highly-regarded expert in the field . He has a distinguished academic medical career and is currently a Dean Emeritus and Obesity Center Director at Northwestern University. More importantly, he is a researcher trained by Julius Axelrod , who made seminal contributions to the understanding of catecholamine transmitter turnover in the early years of discovery in this area."
"One of the most fascinating features of this book is the use of figures and images (especially in the introductory material) drawn from the primary literature reporting the initial discovery of the specific details being described."
"an impeccably authoritative expert that delivers the information in a easily readable, conversational tone ."
Doody's Star Rating ®: 3 stars Score: 83
-Doodys Publishers' Club, Friday, June 30, 2017

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