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:A number of studies have been carried out over the past year to characterise the physiological functions and possible therapeutic applications of somatostatin (sst). Somatostatin is one of the most widespread peptides in the body and it fulfils a very wide spectrum of actions in the various organs and tissues. The aim of this review is to make a critical analysis of knowledge of the structure and physiology of sst and its receptors, together with the possible role played by this peptide in cell proliferation in animal models and the treatment of human tumours. In particular, the authors discuss the most recent findings on cell and intracell mechanisms regulated by somatostatin receptors and how this knowledge may encourage the development of more effective and selective new molecules in terms of therapy.
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Minerva Endocrinoljournal_title
Minerva endocrinologicaauthors
Florio T,Schettini Gkeywords:
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2001-09-01 00:00:00pages
91-102issue
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0391-1977issn
1827-1634journal_volume
26pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia is a well-established risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Various factors, both modifiable and non-modifiable, interact with the homocysteine metabolism and determine the plasma homocysteine concentrations. These include genetic abnormalities, age, sex and various nutritional and hormonal dete...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Acromegaly is a rare and chronic disease that, in the majority of cases, is due to the presence of a benign growth hormone (GH)-producing tumor of the pituitary. In the past, the diagnosis of acromegaly was established basically on physical changes, and only the patients with a severe clinical picture were brought to ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Authors report a case of left adrenal mass incidentally discovered by upper abdominal echogram in a 40 year old man. Physical examination showed no signs of hypercortisolism and plasma cortisol and ACTH levels were in the normal range as well as urinary free cortisol. After adrenalectomy, 4 and 8 month follow-up w...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The present paper reports our personal data on gonadotropin therapy in patients with idiopathic secretory oligozoospermia due to a low biological activity of LH. In recent years the use of more specific diagnostic procedures, particularly the biological assay of gonadotropins, and a better knowledge of the biological ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) is a hypothalamic hormone that is essential for normal expansion of the somatotrope lineage during pituitary development. Decreased GHRH secretion and/or action leads to impairment of this process and somatotrope hypoplasia in both humans and experimental animals. Excessive GHRH...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:It is known that young female cancer survivors are at higher risk for decreased fertility and early menopause. Because the risk of these outcomes varies by age, cancer type, treatment regimen and other patient-specific characteristics, there is a need for valid tools for measuring and predicting reproductive function ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Surgical intervention for breast cancer has continually evolved. The current review reports on updates from the pivotal trials, examines areas of controversy, and explores possible future directions. ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluates the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in diabetes patients who were on routine dialysis. METHODS:Literature search was conducted in electronic databases and studies were selected by following precise eligibility criteria. Random-effects meta-analyses were performed to...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.20.03284-8
更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00
abstract：:The desire to reproduce is a base human instinct. However, for many individuals, the chances of being able to have a genetic child are compromised by a number of factors. For some, therapies aimed at treating serious medical illness, such as cancer; result in a deleterious impact on the function of eggs and sperm in t...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.17.02666-9
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Adrenal scintigraphy using 131I-6-beta-iodomethyl-19-norcholesterol or 6-methyl-75Se-methyl-19-norcholesterol is a function-dependent imaging method which, in association with high-resolution spatial imaging techniques, plays an essential role in the study of adrenocortical hyperfunction. It can distinguish between bi...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The surgical approach to Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma (DTC) is controversial. Aim of this study is to evaluate the opportunity of total thyroidectomy as treatment of choice for DTC in children. METHODS:We examined the tumor features at diagnosis, the complications of surgery and the clinical outcome in ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper was to determine the prevalence of altered sensorium and their determinants in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). METHODS:Retrospective review of medical records for diabetic ketoacidosis admissions over a two year period. RESULTS:A total of 94 admissions for DKA in 89 patients were reviewed. Majo...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Breast cancer is the second most frequent type of cancer worldwide and the most commonly occurring malignancy in women, and its incidence is increasing in most developed and developing countries. There is growing evidence that lifestyle factors, in particular diet may be associated with higher Breast Cancer risk. Some...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.20.03266-6
更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00
abstract：:Subclinical hypothyroidism - i.e., a condition characterized by serum TSH concentrations above the normal reference range in the presence of normal serum T4 levels - affects 4 to 20% of the population living in iodine-sufficient areas. The present work reviews the clinical challenges regarding, on the one hand, the si...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.20.03176-4
更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00
abstract：:The majority of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer are cured with standard primary treatments including surgery, radioactive iodine and TSH suppression. A small proportion of patients who develop radioactive iodine-refractory metastatic disease have few treatment options. Recent discovery of the molecular mec...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The authors take the case of a neuroendocrine tumour of the cecum as the starting point for an analysis of the anatomopathological and diagnostic-therapeutic aspects of these neoplasms. Furthermore, the authors underline that neuroendocrine tumours (NET) of the colon represent an extremely rare nosological entity and ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:One hundred children (4.1 +/- 1.9 years) were examined: 31 of type I diabetic mothers, 25 of type II diabetic mothers and 44 of gestational diabetic mothers. The fetal body weight index at delivery was determined according to Babson. The weight/height index was determined according to Tunner's Centiles, when the child...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A 49 year-old woman with anaplastic thyroid carcinoma came, for the first time, to our clinic with an enlarged supraclavicular lymph node. Ten years earlier she received a diagnosis of benign nodular goiter and has been followed up with ultrasonography, which never demonstrated any enlargement of her thyroid nodule an...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Central adrenal insufficiency (AI) represents a life-threatening disorder that results from a reduced cortisol production due to an impairment production of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). In particular, secondary AI results from pituitary disease that impedes the release of ACTH, while tertiary AI is caused from ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.17.02701-8
更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A 49-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of weight loss, muscular weakness, easy fatigue, impotence, decreased visual acuity, campimetry defects. The results of radiologic and endocrine testing disclosed the presence of pituitary dysfunction due to pituitary stalk section caused by a giant suprasellar aneury...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether Doppler ultrasonography (DU) may be of help in characterizing thyroid nodes is still under debate: both good and unsatisfactory results have been claimed, either in evaluating the presence of malignancy or in identifying hyperfunctional structures. METHODS:In this paper, the scintigraphic and Dopple...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Obesity has become a national epidemic and a disease of global magnitude. The numbers of patients with obesity have grown exponentially in the last 10 years to the degree that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that one third of the US population is obese. The prevalence of diabetes has grown by mo...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：: ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.18.02736-0
更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In health, growth hormone (GH) is secreted in a circadian rhythm with superimposed pulsatility. Temporal fluctuations of hormone concentrations are essential for physiological action, and loss of diurnal rhythm is important in the development of disease. GH feedback occurs through the hypothalamus and involves neurope...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Controversies surround the view that the blood-bone ionic equilibrium is controlled by ionic changes at a so called "bone membrane" that display a pump-leak mechanism able to maintain a concentration gradient for chloride in addition to that for calcium, sodium and potassium. On the other hand it is known that a chlor...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is diabetes that is first diagnosed in the second or third trimester of pregnancy in patients who did not have a history of diabetes before pregnancy. Consequences of GDM include increased risk of macrosomia and birth complications in the infant and an increased risk of maternal typ...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.20.03192-2
更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The coexistence of Graves' disease and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus is well known among autoimmune polyglandular syndromes and sustained by common underlying immune pathogenic factors. Hyperthyroidism itself may lead to impaired glucose tolerance in subjects with intact beta-cell function through various not we...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1; formerly known as Wermer syndrome) is a rare disorder characterized by the combined occurrence of two or more tumors involving parathyroid, pancreatic islets and anterior pituitary glands; some other tumors have also been described. In most cases it is inherited in an autosom...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The treatment of NIDDM patients with secondary failure to sulfonylureas is still a debated problem. In this study we compared in NIDDM patients with secondary failure to glyburide, the effect of adding a single, low-dose bed time either NPH or ultralent insulin injection (0.15-0.2 U/kg) to the previously ineffective s...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：
更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Hyponatremia is common in neurosurgical patients and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite significant research efforts to date, we still lack a complete understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying hyponatremia in this patient setting. The purpose of this narrative review is...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00
