IGF and nutrition in health and disease

Contents: Overview and molecular aspects of the insulin-like growth factor system / Martin L. Adamo ... [et al.] -- Regulation of IGF-I by nutrition / Jean-Paul Thissen ... [et al.] -- Nutrition and IGF proteins in chronic malnutrition and critical illness / Pei-Ra Ling and Bruce R. Bistrian -- The insulin-like growth factors and assessment of nutritional status / M. Sue Houston -- Regulation of growth and the insulin growth factor system by zinc / Ruth S. MacDonald -- The role of the insulin-like growth factor system in pre- and postnatal growth, development, and tumorigenesis / Charles T. Roberts, Jr. The insulin-like growth factor axis in the fetus and neonate / Cynthia L. Blanco and Robert J. Ferry -- Nutrition and the IGF system in reproduction / Frank A. Simmen ... [et al.] -- The insulin growth factor system and nutrition in adulthood and aging / Moira S. Lewitt and Kerstin Hall -- Nutrition and insulin growth factor-I in relation to bone health and disease / Jean-Philippe Bonjour ... [et al.] -- Effect of insulin growth factor proteins on skeletal muscle protein metabolism during normal and catabolic conditions / Charles H. Lang and Robert A. Frost -- Insulin-like growth factors and nervous system disorders / Gary Meyer, Aparna Bole, and Eva L. Feldman -- The kidney and the insulin-like growth factor system in health and disease / Ralph Rabkin, Steve S. Guest, and Franz Schaefer -- The IGF and IGFBP system in insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus / Kerstin Brismar and Moira S. Lewitt. Insulin-like growth factors in relation to gastrointestinal diseases and parenteral nutrition / Denise M. Ney -- Impact of critical illness on the growth hormone/insulin growth factor system in relation to other endocrine responses / Greet Van den Berghe -- Mechanisms of cardiac hypertrophy and the development of heart failure: role of insulin-like growth factor-I and angiotensin II / Patrice Delafontaine, Marijke Brink, and Yao-Hua Song -- Roles of the insulin-like growth factor system and nutrition in cancer / Claire M. Perks and Jeffrey M.P. Holly.