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Cachexia and Wasting

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Functional Anatomy of the ‘Adipose Organ’
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    Chapter 2 Body Silhouette and Body Fat Distribution
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    Chapter 3 Historic Views on Cachexia in Humans with Special Reference to Cardiac Cachexia
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    Chapter 4 Epidemiology of Cachexia
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    Chapter 5 Energy Values of Foods
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    Chapter 6 Diet-Induced Thermogenesis
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    Chapter 7 Biochemical Parameters of Nutrition
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    Chapter 8 Nitrogen Balance and Protein Requirements: Definition and Measurements
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    Chapter 9 Plasma Proteins and Protein Catabolism
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    Chapter 10 Nutritional Status Assessment
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    Chapter 11 Immunological Parameters of Nutrition
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    Chapter 12 Functional Parameters of Nutrition
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    Chapter 13 Anorexia
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    Chapter 14 Starvation: Social, Voluntary, and Involuntary Causes of Weight Loss
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    Chapter 15 Cachexia Related to Multiple Causes
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    Chapter 16 Non-AIDS Lipodystrophy Syndrome
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    Chapter 17 Body Composition: Physiology, Pathophysiology and Methods of Evaluation
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    Chapter 18 Protein Metabolism in Cachexia
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    Chapter 19 Lipid Metabolism in Cachexia
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    Chapter 20 Glucose Metabolism
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    Chapter 21 Cytokines in Cachexia
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    Chapter 22 Cytokines in Chronic Inflammation
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    Chapter 23 Biochemistry of the Growth Hormone-Releasing Peptides, Secretagogues and Ghrelin
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    Chapter 24 Ghrelin as a New Factor in the Central Network Controlling Appetite and Food Intake
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    Chapter 25 Leptin and Des-acyl Ghrelin: Their Role in Physiological Body Weight Regulation and in the Pathological State
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    Chapter 26 Brain Mechanisms in Wasting and Cachexia
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    Chapter 27 Body Weight Regulation and Hypothalamic Neuropeptides
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    Chapter 28 Diabetes
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    Chapter 29 Endocrine Disorders
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    Chapter 30 Psychiatric Diseases and Depression
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    Chapter 31 Cachexia and Wasting: A Modern Approach
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    Chapter 32 Gastrointestinal Diseases
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    Chapter 33 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Treatment of COPD-Related Cachexia
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    Chapter 34 Cachexia in Cardiovascular Illness
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    Chapter 35 Epidemiology of Malnutrition in the Elderly
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    Chapter 36 Pathophysiology of Body Composition Changes in Elderly People
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    Chapter 37 The Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Drugs in Elderly Cachectic (Cancer) Patients
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    Chapter 38 Pathophysiology of Cachexia in the Elderly
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    Chapter 39 Cytokines and Disability in Older Adults
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    Chapter 40 HIV Infection-Related Cachexia and Lipodystrophy
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    Chapter 41 Treatment of AIDS Anorexia-Cachexia Syndrome and Lipodystrophy
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    Chapter 42 Cancer Cachexia and Fat Metabolism
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    Chapter 43 The Role of Cytokines in Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 44 Proinflammatory Cytokines: Their Role in Multifactorial Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 45 Proteolysis-Inducing Factor in Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 46 Lipid Mobilising Factor in Cancer Cachexi
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    Chapter 47 Dietary Intake, Resting Energy Expenditure, Weight Loss, and Survival in Cancer Patients
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    Chapter 48 The Ubiquitin/Proteasome System in Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 49 Non-Gl-Malignancy-Related Malabsorption Leads to Malnutrition and Weight Loss
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    Chapter 50 Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Cancer Anorexia, and Hypothalamic Gene Expression
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    Chapter 51 The Role of Pineal Hormone Melatonin in Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 52 Eating-Related Distress of Patients with Advanced, Incurable Cancer and of Their Partners
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    Chapter 53 Challenges of Geriatric Oncology
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    Chapter 54 The Current Management of Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 55 The Role of Artificial Nutrition Support in the Cancer Patient
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    Chapter 56 The Role of Appetite Stimulants for Cancer-Related Weight Loss
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    Chapter 57 Palliative Management of Anorexia/Cachexia and Associated Symptoms
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    Chapter 58 Pharmaco-Nutritional Supports for the Treatment of Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 59 A Critical Assessment of the Outcome Measures and Goals of Intervention in Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 60 Meeting the Amino Acid Requirements for Protein Anabolism in Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 61 The Role of Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Serotonin Antagonists in the Prevention and Treatment of Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 62 An Update on Therapeutics: The Cancer Anorexia/Weight Loss Syndrome in Advanced Cancer Patients
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    Chapter 63 Medroxyprogesterone Acetate in Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 64 Progestagens and Corticosteroids in the Management Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 65 COX-2 Inhibitors in Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 66 Anti-TNF-α Antibody and Cancer Cachexia
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    Chapter 67 A Phase II Study with Antioxidants, both in the Diet and Supplemented, Pharmaco-Nutritional Support, Progestagen and Anti-COX-2 Showing Efficacy and Safety in Patients with Cancer-Related Anorexia-Cachexia and Oxidative Stress
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    Chapter 68 Treatment of Cachexia in the Elderly
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    Chapter 69 Treatment of Sarcopenia and Cachexia in the Elderly
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    Chapter 70 Management of Weight Loss in Older Persons
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    Chapter 71 Cachexia: Therapeutic Immunomodulation Beyond Cytokine Antagonism
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Title
Cachexia and Wasting
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, October 2007
DOI 10.1007/978-88-470-0552-5
ISBNs
978-8-84-700552-5, 978-8-84-700471-9
Editors

Mantovani, Giovanni, Anker, Stefan D., Inui, Akio, Morley, John E., Fanelli, Filippo Rossi, Scevola, Daniele, Schuster, Michael W., Yeh, Shing-Shing

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 29%
Student > Master 3 21%
Other 2 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 2 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 57%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 21%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 7%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 7%
Unknown 1 7%