Changes in the expression of suppressor of cytokine signalling (SOCS) 2 in the colonic mucosa of acromegalic patients are associated with hyperplastic polyps.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Serum free cortisol, rather than serum total cortisol (TC), determines glucocorticoid activity in vivo, but how the considerable inter-subject variation in ambient serum free cortisol affects the outcome of dynamic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) assessment in noncritically ill subjects is unknown. DESI...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Limor R,Tordjman K,Marcus Y,Greenman Y,Osher E,Sofer Y,Stern N

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the relationship between serum chemokine CXC ligand 5 (CXCL5) and intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery, a marker of preclinical atherosclerosis. DESIGN, PATIENTS AND MEASUREMENTS:We measured the IMT (mean of three segments of both carotid arteries by ultrasonography), serum CXC...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Chen L,Yang Z,Lu B,Li Q,Ye Z,He M,Huang Y,Wang X,Zhang Z,Wen J,Liu C,Qu S,Hu R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of benign thyroid nodules are asymptomatic, remain stable in size and do not require treatment. However, a minority of patients with growing nodules may have local symptoms or cosmetic concerns, and thus demand surgical therapy. The timely use of ultrasound-guided, minimally invasive thermal therapies has...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Cesareo R,Palermo A,Pasqualini V,Cianni R,Gaspa G,Manfrini S,Pacella CM

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological response, as measured in the cytochemical bioassay, to the high circulating levels of immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (iPTH) in patients with pseudohypoparathyroidism type I (PSPI) is affected by the presence of an endogenous inhibitor. This is evidenced by the reduced recovery of the biological acti...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Loveridge N,Fischer JA,Devogelaer JP,Nagant de Deuxchaisnes C

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this investigation was to assess the insulin cleavage capacity in obese humans. Increased insulin degradation by visceral adipose tissue has previously been demonstrated in obese rats and could be interpreted as a physiological response to hyperinsulinaemia. The recent characterization of leptin re...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Cuatrecasas G,Granada ML,Formiguera X,Rull M,Alastrué A,Remesar X,Alemany M,Foz M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:To study the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in a very large unselected population. OBJECTIVE:To determine the prevalence of abnormal thyroid function and evaluate potential modulatory factors. DESIGN AND SETTING:The Estudio de Atención Primaria de Navarra, The APNA Study, is a cross-sectional study conduct...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Santos Palacios S,Llavero Valero M,Brugos-Larumbe A,Díez JJ,Guillén-Grima F,Galofré JC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth hormone-insulin-like growth factor 1 (GH-IGF-1) axis plays an important role in modulating the peripheral metabolism of glucocorticoids mainly through its effect on the isoenzyme 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 (11beta-HSD1) which, in vivo, functions as a reductase catalysing the conversion of cortis...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Agha A,Monson JP

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the clinical and neurological outcomes in newborns with primary congenital hypothyroidism presented with delayed TSH elevation (dTSH), and to define parameters that may predict the evolution of transient vs. permanent hypothyroidism in these newborns. DESIGN AND PATIENTS:An observational study was ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Zung A,Radi A,Almashanu S

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD) is characterized by high androgen levels, ambiguous genitalia or premature pubarche, increased height velocity and skeletal maturation. Considering the possibility of changes in the IGF system components depending on the state of c...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Cunha HM,Elias LL,Camacho-Hübner C,Moreira AC,Martinelli CE Jr

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled therapeutic trial on seventy-four 70-year-old women was carried out with the purpose of finding the optimal treatment for post menopausal osteoporosis. The bone mineral content (BMC) was measured by I-photonabsorptiometry at two sites in the distal part of the forearms, where the trabecular/cortical ratio...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Jensen GF,Christiansen C,Transbøl I

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) produced by cancers has a central role as a humoral mediator of hypercalcaemia in patients with malignancy. Since the prevalences of hypercalcaemia of malignancy and parathyroid disease reflect the population studied, hypercalcaemic patients from a di...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Walls J,Ratcliffe WA,Howell A,Bundred NJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We aimed to investigate both nocturnal spontaneous and morning growth hormone (GH)-releasing hormone (GHRH)-induced GH secretion in children on daily glucocorticoid treatment after liver transplantation and to evaluate the effect of pyridostigmine (an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor thought to reduce hypothal...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Giustina A,Girelli A,Alberti D,Bossoni S,Buzi F,Doga M,Schettino M,Wehrenberg WB

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study concerns eighteen chronic alcoholics with minimal liver damage. A significant reduction in total serum T4 with an accompanying drop in circulating TBG was observed in these otherwise euthyroid patients. During alcohol withdrawal, we observed a rapid increase in T4 and TBG into the normal range. We su...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Geurts J,Demeester-Mirkine N,Glinoer D,Prigogine T,Fernandez-Deville M,Corvilain J

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1,24,25-trihydroxyvitamin D3 has been detected in human serum using a sensitive radioimmunoassay. Tritiated 1,24,25-trihydroxyvitamin D3 was synthesized biologically and used as tracer to monitor the recovery of endogenous metabolite during isolation from serum. Circulating 1,24,25(OH)3D3 in normal subjects ranged fro...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Clemens TL,Fraher LJ,Sandler LM,O'Riordan JL

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmoregulation of vasopressin release and thirst was studied in the mid-follicular and mid-luteal phases of the menstrual cycle of five patients with cyclical oedema defined by peripheral oedema and weight gain (greater than 3.0 kg) manifest in two consecutive luteal phases. Results are compared to those already obtai...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Thompson CJ,Burd JM,Baylis PH

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In order to investigate whether somatotrophs are the target of antipituitary antibodies (APA) in adult patients with growth hormone deficiency (GHD), we studied the sera of 37 APA positive patients. PATIENTS:Patients were grouped as follows: nine patients with APA at high titre (> 1 : 8) affected by apparent...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： De Bellis A,Bizzarro A,Perrino S,Coronella C,Conte M,Pasquali D,Sinisi AA,Betterle C,Bellastella A

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Guidelines do not currently recommend routine systematic hormonal screening for pheochromocytoma (PHEO) in all/normotensive patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), in contrast to other PHEO-predisposing genetic syndromes such as Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome and multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2. OBJ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Moramarco J,El Ghorayeb N,Dumas N,Nolet S,Boulanger L,Burnichon N,Lacroix A,Elhaffaf Z,Gimenez Roqueplo AP,Hamet P,Bourdeau I

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective African-Americans have been shown to have low prevalence of hypothyroidism. Brazil has a high ethnic admixture allowing further exploration into whether environmental factors can explain the ethnic differences. Design A survey, representative of the population of Rio de Janeiro, a large metropolitan city in ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Sichieri R,Baima J,Marante T,de Vasconcellos MT,Moura AS,Vaisman M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), but effects may vary by gender and degree of CVD risk. Whether CRP has value as a CVD risk marker in type-2 diabetes (T2DM) is unclear. We examined whether CRP has gender differences in association with coronary artery calcium (...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Qasim AN,Budharaju V,Mehta NN,St Clair C,Farouk S,Braunstein S,Schutta M,Iqbal N,Rader DJ,Reilly MP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenicity of HCG was tested in twenty-three young healthy men receiving two different HCG preparations (A and B). Each subject received 5000 i.u. HCG intramuscularly daily for three consecutive days, followed by another course, 3 weeks later, of 5000 i.u. HCG injections daily for 3 days. Two of the fifteen subj...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Nieschlag E,Bernitz S,Töpert M

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported an impaired growth hormone (GH) response to a single i.v. bolus dose of growth hormone releasing factor (1 microgram/kg body weight) in obese women. We have now investigated whether the i.v. administration of low dose GHRF(1-29)NH2 (0.33 microgram/kg/h) by 15 min pulsed injections for 3 h fol...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Kopelman PG,Noonan K

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR-gamma) agonists such as thiazolidinediones (TZDs) improve insulin sensitivity in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) through effects on fat metabolism whereas GH stimulates lipolysis and induces insulin resistance. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the impact of TZDs on f...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Krag MB,Nielsen S,Guo Z,Pedersen SB,Schmitz O,Christiansen JS,Jørgensen JO

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We have demonstrated previously that obesity in men was significantly associated with low plasma testosterone levels and higher concentrations of the androgen metabolite androstane-3 alpha, 17 beta-diol glucuronide, suggesting that androgen metabolism and elimination is increased in this condition. The objec...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Tchernof A,Lévesque E,Beaulieu M,Couture P,Després JP,Hum DW,Bélanger A

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Correction of GH and IGF-I levels are associated with improvements in insulin secretion, cardiac performance and body composition in patients with acromegaly, but whether these parallel post-treatment levels of GH-IGF-I axis activity is undefined. We investigate whether various biochemical outcomes after tran...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Damjanovic SS,Neskovic AN,Petakov MS,Popovic V,Macut D,Vukojevic P,Joksimovic MM

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：CONTEXT:Transient thelarche (TT), that is, the appearance, regression and subsequent reappearance of breast buds, is a frequent phenomenon, but little is known about pubertal transition in these girls. OBJECTIVE:To describe pubertal progression, growth, genotypes, reproductive hormones and growth factors in girls with...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Soto J,Pereira A,Busch AS,Almstrup K,Corvalan C,Iñiguez G,Juul A,Mericq V

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the effects of dopamine on the secretion of TSH and its subunits in vivo and in vitro. Four normal controls, seven patients with primary hypothyroidism, two patients with peripheral resistance to thyroid hormone (PRTH), and two patients with alpha-secreting pituitary tumours underwent a 3-h dopamine in...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Cooper DS,Klibanski A,Ridgway EC

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Adrenocortical tumours in man are characterized mainly on biochemical, anatomical and histological grounds which establish their secretory pattern and, with some uncertainty, their benign or malignant nature. To study further these tumours and eventually to shed some light on their pathogenesis, we determine...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Gicquel C,Leblond-Francillard M,Bertagna X,Louvel A,Chapuis Y,Luton JP,Girard F,Le Bouc Y

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is a circadian rhythm in blood melatonin concentrations in humans, the problems associated with frequent blood collection limit the use of this rhythm in the investigation of the circadian system and in the diagnosis and treatment of chronobiological disorders. Therefore, to establish a convenient, non-...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Nowak R,McMillen IC,Redman J,Short RV

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Between 10 and 30% of the fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNABs) of thyroid nodules are diagnosed as 'indeterminate'. A molecular diagnostic method is needed to reduce unnecessary surgery in this group. In Korea, most thyroid cancer is the classic papillary type and the BRAF(V600E) mutation is highly preval...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Chung KW,Yang SK,Lee GK,Kim EY,Kwon S,Lee SH,Park DJ,Lee HS,Cho BY,Lee ES,Kim SW

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The standard ACTH test in clinical use employs a pharmacological dose of ACTH which assesses the maximum secretory capacity of the adrenal cortex. We have investigated the responses of plasma adrenocortical steroids including cortisol, aldosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) to physiological doses of AC...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Daidoh H,Morita H,Mune T,Murayama M,Hanafusa J,Ni H,Shibata H,Yasuda K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00