Hormone Replacement Therapy and Osteoporosis

1 General Aspects of Worldwide HRT Use.- 2 General Aspects of HRT in Japan.- 3 Recent Advances in Steroid Receptor Research: Focusing on Estrogen Receptors.- 4 Global Effects of Estrogens in the Adult Central Nervous System.- 5 HRT and Brain Function - Clinical Aspects.- 6 Hormone Replacement Therapy and Lipids.- 7 HRT and the Vascular System - Direct Action of Estrogen on Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells.- 8 The Place of Estriol Add-Back Therapy in Women Treated with GnRH Agonist, with Reference to Bone Protection.- 9 Hypoestrogenic Bone Loss and HRT: The Predictive Value of Biochemical Markers of Bone Turnover.- 10 HRT and Climacteric Symptoms: Characteristics in Japanese Women.- 11 The Mechanisms of Bone Loss due to Estrogen Deficiency: Possible Role of Increased B-Lymphopoiesis in Bone Resorption.- Previous Volumes Published in this Series.