Inverse distribution of serum sodium and potassium in uncontrolled inpatients with diabetes mellitus.

abstract：:Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) may mimic mixed medullary and follicular thyroid carcinoma (MMFTC). MTC originates from para-follicular cells, while MMFTC is an uncommon tumor characterized by coexistence of follicular and para-follicular cell-derived tumor populations. A 35-year-old woman was diagnosed with MTC but...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takeshima K,Ariyasu H,Uraki S,Morita S,Furukawa Y,Inaba H,Iwakura H,Doi A,Warigaya K,Murata SI,Enomoto K,Hotomi M,Akamizu T

更新日期：2020-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of prolonged diabetes on epinephrine-induced adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) response in the liver was examined in diabetes-prone BB/W rats. Basal and 1 microM epinephrine-induced cAMP release from isolated perfused liver was similar in non-diabetic and diabetic BB/W rats with preserved adipose tissue....

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamatani K,Saito K,Ohnuma H,Ikezawa Y,Seino T,Manaka Y,Daimon M,Takahashi K,Sasaki H

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two types of prognostic factors of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) are static and dynamic. The following static prognostic factors have been conventionally adopted: age, tumor size, extrathyroid extension, lymph node metastasis, and distant metastasis based on pre-, intra- and post-operative findings. These fact...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ito Y,Miyauchi A,Kobayashi K,Kihara M,Miya A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea is a non-specific symptom which may be associated with Addison's disease and several causes had been demonstrated in the aetiology. We describe a patient with Addison's disease who was suffering from chronic diarrhea for three months. She was diagnosed as having collagenous colitis and successfully treated wi...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Unlühizarci K,Bayram F,Ozbakir O,Kirgin A,Patiroglu T,Yücesoy M,Keleştimur F

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proliferative response of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD), which has been reported in patients with type 1 diabetes, was measured in type 2 diabetes, especially in patients with antibodies to GAD initially diagnosed as having type 2 diabetes (anti-GAD+ type 2 diabetes). W...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Fukui M,Nakamura N,Nakano K,Kajiyama S,Matsuo S,Obayashi H,Ohta M,Shigeta M,Shigeta H,Kitagawa Y,Kondo M

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of the long-term administration to mice of thyroid hormone or propylthiouracil (PTU) on lymphocyte subsets in spleens, and thymuses to clarify whether hyperthyroxinemia itself causes the changes in lymphocyte subsets, such as the marked increase in CD5+ B cells and decrease in natural killer (N...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Watanabe K,Iwatani Y,Hidaka Y,Watanabe M,Amino N

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon dysfunction as well as insulin dysfunction is associated with the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). However, it is still unclear whether the measurement of plasma glucagon levels is useful in understanding the pathophysiology of T2DM. We recently reported that sandwich ELISA provides more accurate plasm...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kobayashi M,Satoh H,Matsuo T,Kusunoki Y,Tokushima M,Watada H,Namba M,Kitamura T

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Antipituitary antibody (APA) has been reported to be detected in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease. Type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase (D2) is expressed in both pituitary gland and thyroid gland. We studied the association of APA and D2 peptide antibody in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease. Rat pituitary gl...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Nakahara R,Tsunekawa K,Yabe S,Nara M,Seki K,Kasahara T,Ogiwara T,Nishino M,Kobayashi I,Murakami M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome is a common disorder in Taiwan. For this study 431 subjects were randomly selected from visitors to the Department of Health Management. Blood pressure, blood glucose, lipid, uric acid levels and anthropometric measurements with immunoreactive insulin (IRI) and leptin levels were all correlated. We ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Chiou WK,Lin JD,Weng HF,Ou YC,Liu TH,Fang JT

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the specific changes in gene expression in thyroid carcinomas, we performed sequence specific-differential display (SS-DD) analysis by using a specific degenerate primer for the superfamily of the small G protein. After subcloning and sequencing analysis, one of the genes that showed decreased expression in...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Liu G,Takano T,Matsuzuka F,Higashiyama T,Kuma K,Amino N

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between daily glycemic variability (GV) and visit-to-visit glycemic variability (VVV) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). A total of 156 outpatients with T2DM who had undergone continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for 5 days were included in this study. Indices ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tsuchiya T,Saisho Y,Murakami R,Watanabe Y,Inaishi J,Itoh H

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the dose-dependent efficacy and safety of exenatide over 12 weeks in Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes suboptimally controlled despite therapeutic doses of sulfonylurea (SU), SU plus biguanide, or SU plus thiazolidinedione. Patients were randomly assigned to placebo (N = 40), 2.5 microg (N = 3...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kadowaki T,Namba M,Yamamura A,Sowa H,Wolka AM,Brodows RG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial and brain natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP, respectively) are cardiac hormones. During cardiac development, their expression is a maker of cardiomyocyte differentiation and is under tight spatiotemporal regulation. After birth, however, their ventricular expression is only up-regulated in response to various c...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kuwahara K,Nakao K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KRN568 is a calcimimetic compound which acts on the calcium sensing receptors (CaR) on the parathyroid gland to suppress secretion of PTH. A recent report has demonstrated that CaRs are expressed on cultured human antral gastrin cells and that gastrin secretion is stimulated by an increase in extracellular calcium lev...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Igarashi T,Ogata E,Maruyama K,Fukuda T

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-four patients with acromegaly were retrospectively analyzed to study the incidence and cause of hypertension in acromegaly. WHO criteria indicate that 37.5% patients with acromegaly have hypertension. The blood pressure was positively correlated with age, the insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and serum sodium...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ohtsuka H,Komiya I,Aizawa T,Yamada T

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transsphenoidal adenomectomy is currently the first choice for treatment of patients with pituitary ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome. However, pharmacotherapy is prescribed for some patients, e.g., unsuccessful surgery. We treated a woman in whom pituitary Cushing's syndrome was improved while she was on antimuscarin...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shimizu C,Yamane Y,Ishizuka T,Kijima H,Takano K,Takano A,Kubo M,Koike T

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to compare the bone aging process in Werner's syndrome, a disease characterized by premature aging, and that in natural aging, we have assessed the bone status in a total of 19 cases (11 males and eight postmenopausal females) with Werner's syndrome. The spinal deformity index was determined for a total of 87...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shiraki M,Aoki C,Goto M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to review the phenotypic and endocrine features or a series of patients with ambiguous genitalia or sex-reversal due to gonadal dysgenesis (GD) and to analyse the impact of these on the decision about sex of rearing. This study is a retrospective analysis of 22 patients with GD treated be...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Cameron FJ,Montalto J,Byrt EA,Sinclair AH,Warne GL

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sarpogrelate, a selective 5-HT(2) receptor antagonist, is known to have a significant effect on antiplatelet action. This study was a double-blinded, randomized, paralleled multicenter trial to compare the effects of sarpogrelate and aspirin on preventing macrovascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes. T...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Park SY,Rhee SY,Oh S,Kwon HS,Cha BY,Lee HJ,Lee HC,Kim YS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)-stimulated thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) response in normal subjects is suppressed by oral glucose administration. Pharmacologic studies indicate that this suppressive action of glucose is mediated by an increase in hypothalamic somatostatin (SRIH) tone. Since activation of the ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Park C,Kim E,Sohn S,Yang I,Koh G,Oh S,Woo J,Kim S,Kim J,Kim Y,Oh K,Park S,Park S

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conophylline and betacellulin-delta4 reproduce differentiation-inducing activity of activin A and betacellulin, respectively. We examined the effect of conophylline and betacellulin-delta4 on beta cell differentiation. In AR42J cells, conophylline and betacellulin-delta4 converted them into insulin-producing cells. Ce...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kitamura R,Ogata T,Tanaka Y,Motoyoshi K,Seno M,Takei I,Umezawa K,Kojima I

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to explore beta cell dysfunction and its clinical significance in gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). We assessed insulin sensitivity and insulin secretion in a total of 277 Japanese women between 24 and 27 weeks of pregnancy who underwent a 2 h, 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) becaus...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Saisho Y,Miyakoshi K,Tanaka M,Shimada A,Ikenoue S,Kadohira I,Yoshimura Y,Itoh H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured serum levels of the carboxy-terminal propeptide of type 1 procollagen (P1CP) as a marker of bone formation and the carboxy-terminal telopeptide of type 1 collagen (1CTP) as a marker of bone resorption by RIA in sera from 40 Graves' disease patients and 14 Hashimoto's disease patients before and during trea...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Miyakawa M,Tsushima T,Demura H

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical studies have shown that hyperhomocysteinemia is associated with bone fragility. Homocysteine (Hcy) induces apoptosis of osteoblastic cell lineage by increasing oxidative stress, which may contribute to Hcy-induced bone fragility. Statins, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors, ameliorate ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takeno A,Kanazawa I,Tanaka K,Notsu M,Yokomoto-Umakoshi M,Sugimoto T

更新日期：2016-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylin (Gn), a bioactive peptide, and its receptor, guanylyl cyclase-C (GC-C), are primarily present in the intestine and maintain homeostasis in body fluids. Recently, rats whose macrophages overexpress Gn and GC-C were found to be resistant to diet-induced obesity. Considering that obesity is strongly related to a...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hasegawa K,Akieda-Asai S,Fujii Y,Bae CR,Yasuda M,Date Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the relationship between serum thyrotropin and components of metabolic syndrome in a Chinese cohort. A total of 1534 adult inhabitants in DaDong district of Shenyang were asked to fulfill the questionnaire, complete physical examination and OGTT. Blood samples were collected to test thyrotropin (TSH), fasti...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Lai Y,Wang J,Jiang F,Wang B,Chen Y,Li M,Liu H,Li C,Xue H,Li N,Yu J,Shi L,Bai X,Hou X,Zhu L,Lu L,Wang S,Xing Q,Teng X,Teng W,Shan Z

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1989, neonatal mass screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) has been carried out in Japan. The mass screening has detected not only the patients with the classic form of steroid 21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD), but also those with the nonclassic (NC) form of 21-OHD, and the molecular basis in these...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shinagawa T,Horikawa R,Isojima T,Naiki Y,Tanaka T,Katsumata N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine whether polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and nonclassic 21-hydroxylase deficiency (CAH) are related to hyperhomocysteinemia, and to investigate if there is a correlation between homocysteine levels and insulin sensitivity in women with PCOS and CAH. Fifty patients with PCOS, ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Bayraktar F,Dereli D,Ozgen AG,Yilmaz C

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the clinical usefulness of serum soluble Fas (sFas) and sFas ligand as a prognostic factor and for monitoring the regression and progression of metastatic prostate cancer treated with endocrine therapy, sFas and sFas ligand were measured in sera collected from 30 patients with untreated metastatic prostate...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Furuya Y,Nagakawa O,Fuse H

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The risk factors for impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) have yet to be established. Our aim was to elucidate the predisposing factors for IFG and IGT in Japanese subjects with normal glucose tolerance (NGT). Using a 75 g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), we analyzed 604 adults with t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Oka R,Yagi K,Hayashi K,Kawashiri MA,Yamagishi M,Yamada M,Fumisawa Y,Yamauchi K,Aizawa T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00