Arcuate AgRP neurons and the regulation of energy balance.

abstract：:The pathophysiological function of the G-protein coupled melatonin MT1 and MT2 receptors has not yet been well-clarified. Recent advancements using selective MT1/ MT2 receptor ligands and MT1/MT2 receptor knockout mice have suggested that the activation of the MT1 receptors are mainly implicated in the regulation of r...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Gobbi G,Comai S

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin is a peptide hormone that is acylated with a fatty acid, usually n-octanoic acid, at the third amino acid (aa) residue (usually a serine or threonine), and this acylation is known to be essential for ghrelin activity not only in mammals but also in non-mammals, such as fish. However, the modification mechanism...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Kaiya H,Andoh T,Ichikawa T,Amiya N,Matsuda K,Kangawa K,Miyazato M

更新日期：2013-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has become a public health problem in China. Objective: To examine the association of dietary protein intake before and during pregnancy with the risk of GDM. Design: Dietary intake before pregnancy and during the first and second trimesters of pregnancy was assessed usi...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Liang Y,Gong Y,Zhang X,Yang D,Zhao D,Quan L,Zhou R,Bao W,Cheng G

更新日期：2018-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are chemicals that interfere with the organizational or activational effects of hormones. Although the vast majority of the EDC literature focuses on steroid hormone signaling related impacts, growing evidence from a myriad of species reveals that the nonapeptide hormones vasopres...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Patisaul HB

更新日期：2017-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Rationale: Hypoxia induces leptin gene expression in human adipocytes via hypoxia-inducible factors (HIF-α/β). Under ambient moderate hypoxia, leptin in adipocytes is elevated for at least 14 days. Leptin is supposedly involved in the reduced food intake, increased utilization of fatty acids for energy production and ...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Rausch LK,Hofer M,Pramsohler S,Kaser S,Ebenbichler C,Haacke S,Gatterer H,Netzer NC

更新日期：2018-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Circulating free DNA (cfDNA) in general and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in particular is becoming an increasingly used form of liquid biopsy biomarkers. In this study, we are investigating the ability to detect ctDNA from the plasma of pituitary adenoma (PA) patients. Design: Tumor tissue samples were obt...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Megnis K,Peculis R,Rovite V,Laksa P,Niedra H,Balcere I,Caune O,Breiksa A,Nazarovs J,Stukens J,Konrade I,Pirags V,Klovins J

更新日期：2019-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Intracystic hemorrhage can present occasionally during ultrasound-guided percutaneous microwave ablation (PMWA) for cystic thyroid nodules. It can affect treatment outcome, can lead to ablation failure, and even conversion to open surgery. We aim to avoid such cases in the future by exploring their causes ...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Dong S,Sun L,Xu J,Han Z,Liu J

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the biologic importance of the vitamin D binding protein (DBP) with emphasis on its regulation of total and free vitamin D metabolite levels in various clinical conditions. Nearly all DBP is produced in the liver, where its regulation is influenced by estrogen, glucocorticoids and inflammatory c...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Bikle DD,Schwartz J

更新日期：2019-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Graves' hyperthyroidism is caused by autoantibodies directed against the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR) that mimic the action of TSH. The establishment of Graves' hyperthyroidism in experimental animals has proven to be an important approach to dissect the mechanisms of self-tolerance breakdown that lead ...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Luo Y,Yoshihara A,Oda K,Ishido Y,Suzuki K

更新日期：2016-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and Objectives: Clitoromegaly is an important parameter in the evaluation of ambiguous genitalia in neonates, but the normative data for clitoral size in newborns have racial/ethnic differences. The present study aimed to determine clitoral length (CL) and clitoral width (CW) values and establish cutoff mea...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Alaei M,Rohani F,Norouzi E,Hematian Boroujeni N,Tafreshi RI,Salehiniya H,Soheilipour F

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The world-wide obesity epidemic constitutes a severe threat to human health and wellbeing and poses a major challenge to health-care systems. Current therapeutic approaches, relying mainly on reduced energy intake and/or increased exercise energy expenditure, are generally of limited effectiveness. Previously believed...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Betz MJ,Enerbäck S

更新日期：2011-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In rodents, insufficient thyroid hormone (TH) gestationally has adverse effects on cerebral cortex development. Comparable studies of humans examining how TH insufficiency affects cortical morphology are limited to children with congenital hypothyroidism or offspring of hypothyroxinemic women; effects on cortex of chi...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Lischinsky JE,Skocic J,Clairman H,Rovet J

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and nitric oxide (NO) in the aorta of subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) rat model. The mechanisms underlying thyrotropin (TSH) affecting eNOS and PGRN expression in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) cultured in vitro were investigat...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Jiang F,Wang H,Bao S,Zhou H,Zhang Y,Yan Y,Lai Y,Teng W,Shan Z

更新日期：2018-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The placenta is the chief regulator of nutrient supply to the growing embryo during gestation. As such, adequate placental function is instrumental for developmental progression throughout intrauterine development. One of the most common complications during pregnancy is insufficient growth of the fetus, a problem ter...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Woods L,Perez-Garcia V,Hemberger M

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Many studies suggest that the small ubiquitin-like modifier 4 (SUMO4) M55V gene polymorphism (rs237025) may be associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, due to other conflicting results, a clear consensus is lacking in the matter. Objective and methods:A meta-analysis co...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Li YY,Wang H,Yang XX,Geng HY,Gong G,Kim HJ,Zhou YH,Wu JJ

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid increase of obesity rates worldwide is associated with chronic liver injury due to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Chronic liver inflammation drives hepatic fibrosis, which is a highly conserved and coordinated protective response to tissue injury, and is a reversible pro...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Cho EH

更新日期：2018-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of embryonal tumors or childhood blastomas derive from pluripotent progenitors or fetal stem cells that acquire cancer stem cell (CSC) properties: multipotency, self-renewal ability, metastatic potential, chemoresistance, more pronounced levels of drug transporters, enhanced DNA-damage repair mechanisms, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Veschi V,Verona F,Thiele CJ

更新日期：2019-11-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: The effect of testosterone supplementation in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) remains uncertain. Methods: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was performed. RCTs that evaluate the chronic effect of testosterone supplementation on exercise capacity and cardiac function in CHF we...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Tao J,Liu X,Bai W

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (PCa) is the major cause of cancer-related death among the male population of Western society, and androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) represents the first line in PCa treatment. However, although androgen receptor (AR) expression is maintained throughout the various stages of PCa, ADT frequently fails....

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Di Donato M,Giovannelli P,Cernera G,Di Santi A,Marino I,Bilancio A,Galasso G,Auricchio F,Migliaccio A,Castoria G

更新日期：2015-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：Background:In addition to inborn metabolic disorders, altered metabolic profiles were reported to be associated with the risk and prognosis of some non-metabolic diseases, while as a rare metabolic disease, the overall secondary metabolic spectrum in congenital hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (HH) is largely undetermined...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Xu ZR,Zhu XY,Lu W,Sun WH,Cheng RQ,Ni JW,Xi L,Hussain K,Luo FH,Zhang MY

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:During mammalian pregnancy, highly specialized mechanisms of immune tolerance are triggered in order to allow the semi-allogeneic fetus to grow within the maternal uterus in harmony with the maternal immune system. Among other mechanisms, changes in the endocrine status have been proposed to be at least part of the ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Muzzio D,Zygmunt M,Jensen F

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phthalates are ubiquitous environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals suspected to interfere with developmental androgen action leading to adverse effects on male reproductive function. Prenatal exposure studies in rodents show cryptorchidism, hypospadias and reduced testicular volume (TV), testosterone and anogenita...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Hart RJ,Frederiksen H,Doherty DA,Keelan JA,Skakkebaek NE,Minaee NS,McLachlan R,Newnham JP,Dickinson JE,Pennell CE,Norman RJ,Main KM

更新日期：2018-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to determine the efficacy of 12 weeks high-intensity interval training (HIIT), compared to moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) on glucose control, cardiometabolic risk and microvascular complication markers in men living with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Both modalities were combined with resistance trai...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Wormgoor SG,Dalleck LC,Zinn C,Borotkanics R,Harris NK

更新日期：2018-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenomas are common neoplasms. Their classification is based upon size, invasion of adjacent structures, sporadic or familial cases, biochemical activity, clinical manifestations, morphological characteristics, response to treatment and recurrence. Although they are considered benign tumors, some of them are...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Syro LV,Rotondo F,Ramirez A,Di Ieva A,Sav MA,Restrepo LM,Serna CA,Kovacs K

更新日期：2015-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that autophagy-mediated mitochondrial homeostasis is crucial for oxidative stress-related brain damage and repair. The highest concentration of melatonin is in the mitochondria of cells, and melatonin exhibits well-known antioxidant properties. We investigated the impact and mechanism involve...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Wang DD,Jin MF,Zhao DJ,Ni H

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:As one of the most serious complications of diabetes, diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) imposes a huge burden on individuals and society, and represents a major public health problem. It has long been recognized that physical exercise has important health benefits for patients with type 2 diabetes, and regular physical ex...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Zheng J,Cheng J,Zheng S,Zhang L,Guo X,Zhang J,Xiao X

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA) has a vital role in the central nervous system and also modulates lipid and glucose metabolism. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of dopamine on insulin secretion and the underlying mechanisms in rat pancreatic β-cells. Data from the radioimmunoassay indicated that dopamine inhibited insu...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Liu M,Ren L,Zhong X,Ding Y,Liu T,Liu Z,Yang X,Cui L,Yang L,Fan Y,Liu Y,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertrehalosemic hormone (HTH) is a peptide hormone that belongs to the adipokinetic hormone/red pigment concentrating hormone (AKH/RPCH) family, which exerts pleiotropic actions related to catabolic reaction and stress response. AKH peptides have been demonstrated to participate in stress response including oxidativ...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Huang JH,Bellés X,Lee HJ

更新日期：2012-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is associated with both microvascular complications such as diabetic retinopathy (DR), and macrovascular complications like coronary artery disease (CAD). Genetic risk factors have a role in the development of these complications. In the present case-control study, we investigated ...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Azzam SK,Osman WM,Lee S,Khalaf K,Khandoker AH,Almahmeed W,Jelinek HF,Al Safar HS

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of growth hormone therapy (rGH) on mitochondrial function on peripheral muscle and to correlate with exercise capacity in subjects with severe adult growth hormone deficiency (GHD). Design:Six months, double-blind, randomized, crossover, placebo-controlled tria...

journal_title：Frontiers in endocrinology

authors： Gonzalez S,Sathyapalan T,Javed Z,Atkin SL

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00