Modulation of glucocorticoid metabolism by the growth hormone - IGF-1 axis.

abstract：:The results obtained with a new test of prolactin (PRL) release in six panhypopituitary patients as compared to fourteen normal subjects (eight females and six males) are presented. The test consists of the i.m. administration of 100 mg of sulpiride and the measurement of plasma PRL by a double antibody radioimmunoass...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Batrinos ML,Pavlou SN,Pitoulis SA,Sfikaki AP,Alexandrides TK,Piaditis GP

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The disruption between the brain and the spinal cord leads to a decentralized sympathetic nervous system in people with chronic, cervical spinal cord lesions. These tetraplegic subjects are prone to disorders of energy metabolism and osteoporosis, and they experience alterations in their body composition with...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Hjeltnes N,De Groot P,Birkeland KI,Falch JA,Iversen PO

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-M syndrome is an autosomal recessive primordial growth disorder characterized by small birth size and post-natal growth restriction associated with a spectrum of minor anomalies (including a triangular-shaped face, flat cheeks, full lips, short chest and prominent fleshy heels). Unlike many other primordial short st...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Clayton PE,Hanson D,Magee L,Murray PG,Saunders E,Abu-Amero SN,Moore GE,Black GC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer (PDTC) is a rare, but aggressive thyroid cancer (TC) and a main cause of death from non-anaplastic follicular cell-derived TC. Assessing the risk of PDTC-related death and the risk of recurrence is important for clinicians. The recent American Thyroid Association (ATA) 201...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Walczyk A,Kopczyński J,Gąsior-Perczak D,Pałyga I,Kowalik A,Chrapek M,Hejnold M,Góźdź S,Kowalska A

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Research on sources of variation in adolescent's gonadal hormone levels is limited. We sought to decompose individual differences in adolescent testosterone, estradiol, and pubertal status, into genetic and environmental components. DESIGN:A sample of male and female adolescent twins from the greater Austin ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Grotzinger AD,Mann FD,Patterson MW,Herzhoff K,Tackett JL,Tucker-Drob EM,Paige Harden K

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test the hypothesis that patients with hyperprolactinaemia due to biologically inactive macroprolactin will not show the characteristically increased dopaminergic inhibition of TSH release seen in patients with microprolactinomas secreting biologically active monomeric PRL. DESIGN:Comparison of the TSH an...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pinto LP,Hanna FW,Evans LM,Davies JS,John R,Scanlon MF

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The present clinical investigation uses a high-precision GH immunofluorometric assay to examine the postulate that principally the amplitude mode of GH secretory control is disrupted in adults with GH deficiency. PATIENTS AND METHODS:To this end, we investigated GH secretory dynamics in a cohort of 19 adu...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Roelfsema F,Biermasz NR,Veldhuis JD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sleep apnoea has been reported to occur in subjects with acromegaly. This study evaluates the relationship among biochemical activity, sleep apnoeic activity and upper airway anatomic profile in acromegaly, and the effect of Sandostatin LAR, a long-acting somatostatin analogue, on these parameters. PATIENTS...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ip MS,Tan KC,Peh WC,Lam KS

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Testosterone replacement is generally considered likely to be required only at testicular radiation doses in excess of 20Gy. Long-term data are not available for patients receiving 9-14.4Gy as part of Total Body Irradiation in childhood. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study. DATA COLLECTION:notes review, labor...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Taneja S,Rao A,Nussey S,Leiper A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied three patients (1M, 2F), age range 10.9 to 15.5 years, who had abnormal sexual maturation secondary to primary hypothyroidism. The boy had inappropriately large testes for his stage of puberty, the girls had isolated breast development and there was absence of pubertal growth acceleration. FSH, LH, TSH...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pringle PJ,Stanhope R,Hindmarsh P,Brook CG

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Headache is very common in pituitary disease and is reported to be present in more than a third of all patients with pituitary adenomas. Tumour size, cavernous sinus invasion, traction or displacement of intracranial pain-sensitive structures such as blood vessels, cranial nerves and dura mater, and hormonal hypersecr...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Kreitschmann-Andermahr I,Siegel S,Weber Carneiro R,Maubach JM,Harbeck B,Brabant G

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of brain catecholamine (CA) activity in the neuroendocrine regulation of the GnRH-LH system in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCO) was investigated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with electrochemical detector. We measured urinary dopamine (DA), noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (A), vanillylmandeli...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Paradisi R,Grossi G,Venturoli S,Capelli M,Porcu E,Fabbri R,Pasquali R,Flamigni C

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Surgery of bone metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinoma seems indicated in individual patients. This study was performed (1) to analyse retrospectively patients with bone metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinoma and (2) to evaluate the impact of surgery of bone metastases on survival. PATIEN...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Zettinig G,Fueger BJ,Passler C,Kaserer K,Pirich C,Dudczak R,Niederle B

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Subjects with non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFAs) frequently develop GH deficiency due to tumour expansion or as a consequence of tumour therapy. The safety of GH replacement (GHR) in these individuals remains unclear. OBJECTIVE:To assess the effect of GHR on tumour recurrence in patients with NFAs so...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Arnold JR,Arnold DF,Marland A,Karavitaki N,Wass JA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen consecutive cases of Cushing's disease were treated by radical transphenoidal hypophysectomy. Surgical removal was not possible in two cases. Of the other 14, there was total clinical and biochemical remission of the disease in 13 and partial remission in one. Some form of replacement therapy has been necessar...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Thomas JP,Richards SH

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Since panhypopituitarism in patients with Sheehan's syndrome is due to massive pituitary necrosis with only minor hypothalamic involvement, we hypothesized that serum TSH levels would be low but its circadian rhythm preserved in these patients. DESIGN AND PATIENTS:Basal and TRH-stimulated mean afternoon (150...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Abucham J,Castro V,Maccagnan P,Vieira JG

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The newly discovered vasoactive peptides, endothelin 1, 2 and 3, and their receptors are widely distributed in various non-vascular tissues. Recent studies have suggested the presence, as well as possible regulatory roles, of endothelins at several levels of the pituitary-gonadal axis. We determined the level...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Hammami MM,Haq A,AlSedairy S

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Glucagon-like peptide-1 is an insulin secretion-stimulating gut hormone that is produced in response to food intake. Orlistat (Xenical, F. Hoffman-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland), which decreases fat absorption and increases intestinal fat content, may therefore affect the secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1. ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Sahin M,Tanaci N,Yucel M,Tutuncu NB,Guvener N

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to compare the metabolic effects of GH administered subcutaneously either once or twice daily. The actions of GH might depend upon a pulsatile pattern of serum GH. Pulsatile and continuous intravenous delivery of GH, however, induce similar short-term metabolic effects in GH deficien...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Laursen T,Jørgensen JO,Christiansen JS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The optimal treatment regimen with thionamide drugs remains a matter for debate. We have investigated whether high doses of carbimazole, when compared with low doses, reduce relapse rates of Graves' disease. DESIGN:In an open label, randomized, prospective trial of treatment of Graves' disease we compared hi...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Grebe SK,Feek CM,Ford HC,Fagerström JN,Cordwell DP,Delahunt JW,Toomath RJ

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Primary hyperparathyroidism and calcium supplementation have been linked to cardiovascular outcomes. The study objective was to examine plasma calcium as a predictor of cardiovascular disease in the general population, as results from previous cohort studies are conflicting. DESIGN, PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREM...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Walsh JP,Divitini ML,Knuiman MW

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The chromosomal regions containing the two putative tumour suppressors, fragile histidine triad gene (FHIT) and tumour suppressor gene 101 (TSG101), are deleted frequently in thyroid tumours. We therefore analysed FHIT and TSG101 transcripts in a group of advanced thyroid tumours to establish their role in th...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： McIver B,Grebe SK,Wang L,Hay ID,Yokomizo A,Liu W,Goellner JR,Grant CS,Smith DI,Eberhardt NL

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Human resistin gene (RETN) polymorphisms have been found to be associated with type 2 diabetes (T2DM), insulin resistance and/or obesity. We evaluated, in a 5-year prospective study, whether RETN polymorphisms could predict the progression of glycaemia in southern Chinese. DESIGN AND PATIENTS:We conducted a ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Xu JY,Sham PC,Xu A,Tso AW,Wat NM,Cheng KY,Fong CH,Janus ED,Lam KS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The urine clearance of TRH after intravenous injection in man has been measured by radioimmunoassay. Between 4.4 percent and 10.7 percent of the dose was excreted within 90 min, the majority within 30 min. The TRH excreted was immunochemically and chromatographically indistinguishable from synthetic TRH and was inacti...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Jeffcoate SL,White N

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We explored the possibility of a genetic anomaly in the sex determining region of the Y chromosome, SRY gene, known to be equated to the testis determining region. PATIENTS:Four patients with bilateral congenital anorchia, absence of testicular tissue, elevated FSH and a lack of testosterone response to huma...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Lobaccaro JM,Medlej R,Berta P,Belon C,Galifer RB,Guthmann JP,Chevalier C,Czernichow P,Dumas R,Sultan C

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mutations in PROP1, HESX1 and LHX3 are associated with combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD) and orthotopic posterior pituitary lobe (OPP). OBJECTIVE:To identify mutations in PROP1, HESX1 and LHX3 in a large cohort of patients with CPHD and OPP (35 Brazilian, two Argentinian). DESIGN AND METHODS:We ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Madeira JL,Nishi MY,Nakaguma M,Benedetti AF,Biscotto IP,Fernandes T,Pequeno T,Figueiredo T,Franca MM,Correa FA,Otto AP,Abrão M,Miras MB,Santos S,Jorge AA,Costalonga EF,Mendonca BB,Arnhold IJ,Carvalho LR

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from patients with Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis were reacted with normal T lymphocyte preparations in an attempt to detect binding of immunoglobulin G (IgG) to T cells. Sera from normal subjects and patients with toxic adenomas served as controls. Each serum was reacted with at least three differen...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pacini F,Sridama V,Pressendo J,DeGroot LJ,Medof ME

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The use of ergot-derived dopamine agonists (DA) to treat patients with prolactinomas has not been associated with an increased risk of significant heart valve dysfunction. Accordingly, the present study evaluated whether the long-term use of DA for hyperprolactinaemia may be associated with increased risk of ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Delgado V,Biermasz NR,van Thiel SW,Ewe SH,Marsan NA,Holman ER,Feelders RA,Smit JW,Bax JJ,Pereira AM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Phaeochromocytomas (PHEO) and functional paragangliomas (PGLs) are catecholamine-secreting neuroendocrine tumours. Although most PHEO/PGLs are benign, 10-35% present as (or develop into) malignant tumours with a poor prognosis. Overexpression of ERBB2 (v-erb-b2 erythroblastic leukaemia viral oncogene homologu...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Qi Y,Su T,Zhang X,Jiang Y,Yuan W,Wang W,Cui B,Ning G

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:delta 5 and delta 4 steroid levels were studied in the plasma and cyst fluid of women with gross cystic breast disease (GCBD). In luteal phase a significant increase in plasma levels (mean +/- SEM) of DHA (11.2 +/- 2.4 ng/ml), DHAS (1.45 +/- 0.6 micrograms/ml) and cortisol 277 +/- 15.7 ng/ml) was found; in follicular ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Inaudi P,Bernabei A,Gioffré W,Franchi F,Mazzullo G,De Leo V,D'Antona N

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00