Studies on Women's Health

By Ashok Agarwal

Book Overview

This volume covers data describing the role of free radicals and antioxidants that deal with clinical and pre-clinical trials, as well as basic research in the area of women's health. There is increasing evidence that oxidative stress is a causative, or at least a supporting factor in female pathology and infertility. During advancing gestational age, oxidative stress biomakers rise. Oxidative stress plays a regulatory role in transcription, signal transduction, gene expression and membrane trafficking. A search on Pub Med shows 449 papers have been published to date related to women's health disorders and use of antioxidants in a variety of disease that are prevalent in women, such as hypertension and cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, obesity and restless leg syndrome.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1627039333
• ISBN13: 9781627039338
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"