Harrison's, Principles of internal Medicine, McGraw Hill.
Giovanni Faglia, Malattie del Sistema Endocrino e del Metabolismo, Mc Graw-Hill.
Learning Objectives
Acquiring basic knowledge about protein and steroid hormones, the regulation of their secretion and their mechanism of action. Pathophysiology of the endocrine glands. Methods of study of hormones and their receptors.
General information about the endocrine system. Proteic, glycoproteic, and steroid hormones.
Hormone determination techniques.
Nuclear receptors superfamily: mechanism of action and methods of investigation.
Non-genomic effects of steroid hormones.
Mechanism of action of proteic hormones.
Physiopathology of the hypothalamus-pituitary axis.
Genetic alteration of GH-secreting adenomas.
The Neurohypophysis.
Regulation of the calcium / phosphorus metabolism.
Thyroid Physiopathology.
Thyroid autoimmunity.
Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 and 2.
Physiopathology of the adrenal gland.
Physiopathology of the glucose metabolism and laboratory investigations for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus and the follow-up of the diabetic patient.
Diabetes mellitus: experimental models for the study of insulin mechanisms of action.
Male gonadal physiopathology.
The seminology laboratory.
Search for mutations in the hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.
Study of polymorphisms in the andrological field.
PCR applications in the Male Infertility Diagnosis.
Physiopathology of the Female Gonade.
General principles of the assisted reproduction techniques.