Self-examination of thyroid nodules.

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to determine clinical features of hypopituitarism in elderly subjects. Thirty-one elderly patients with hypopituitarism were enrolled. They were 19 males and 12 females, with the ages of 70.7±5.4 years ranging from 62 to 80 years. High prevalence of hyponatremia (80.6%) and hypoglyc...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Asano T,Aoki A,Sasaki M,Ikoma A,Kakei M,Kawakami M,Ishikawa SE

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors are newly established anti-diabetic agents with a unique glucose-lowering mechanism. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy and safety of the sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitor ipragliflozin (Ipra) for metabolic markers and cardiovascular parameters in Japa...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Nomiyama T,Shimono D,Horikawa T,Fujimura Y,Ohsako T,Terawaki Y,Fukuda T,Motonaga R,Tanabe M,Yanase T,Collaborators of Fukuoka Study of Ipragliflozin (FUSION) trial.

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment plan for neonates with borderline hypothyroidism (persistent hyperthyrotropinemia with normothyroxinemia) has not been established. In this study, changes in thyroid function after discontinuation of low-dose L-thyroxine (L-T4) supplement in infants with the condition were evaluated. Fourteen infants with hy...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tomita Y,Ishiguro H,Shinagawa T,Kubota C,Shinohara O

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with adrenal insufficiency require appropriate glucocorticoid replacement therapy; however, reliable biological parameters for optimizing glucocorticoid supplementation are limited. The physician has to rely primarily on clinical judgment, carefully taking into account signs and symptoms potentially suggestiv...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Watanabe T,Ozawa A,Ishii S,Tomaru T,Shibusawa N,Saito T,Yamada E,Horiguchi K,Nakajima Y,Matsumoto S,Yoshino S,Katano-Toki A,Hashimoto K,Mori M,Okada S,Satoh T,Yamada M

更新日期：2018-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and their binding proteins (IGFBPs) are important for fetal and postnatal development, but the regulation of circulating IGFs and IGFBPs has not been as thoroughly investigated in the maternal/fetal unit as in the adult animal where nutrition status plays a regulatory role. We used t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Lee WH,Gaylord TD,Bowsher RR,Hlaing M,Moorehead H,Liechty EA

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although curcumin was widely applied as a functional food for different diseases, it was found to reduce serum testosterone level and fertility in male animals by unknown molecular mechanisms. Here in our study, we investigated the possible mechanisms of curcumin-suppressed testosterone production in Leydig cells. Our...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Lin YC,Chiu CH,Liu HC,Wang JY

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and increased tHcy levels have been reported to be a novel risk factor of atherosclerotic disease. The aim of this study was to assess the association of the metabolic syndrome components with plasma (tHcy) level. Total 722 parti...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Rhee EJ,Hwang ST,Lee WY,Yoon JH,Kim BJ,Kim BS,Kang JH,Lee MH,Park JR,Sung KC

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 30 Japanese insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) patients of short duration were examined to determine whether they had antibodies to proteolytic fragments of islet antigen, the molecular weights of which were 37,000 and/or 40,000 Mr (37KAb). The median age and disease duration of the patients were 13 ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ozawa Y,Kasuga A,Maruyama T,Kitamura Y,Amemiya S,Ishihara T,Suzuki R,Saruta T

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the association of muscle mass with insulin resistance, evaluated from the insulin sensitivity index (ISI), in Japanese patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Consecutive patients with GDM (n = 96) admitted to St. Marianna University Hospital between October 2015 and March 2018 for init...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kawanabe S,Nagai Y,Nakamura Y,Nishine A,Nakagawa T,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2019-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of reserpine treatment, not associated with pituitary irradiation, on the pituitary-adrenocortical axis in a total of 37 untreated patients with Cushing's disease were evaluated. With short-term treatment (2 mg daily for 2 weeks, n = 36), basal excretion of urinary 17-OHCS significantly decreased from 11.2 +/-...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Minamori Y,Yasuda K,Murayama M,Morita H,Yamakita N,Miura K

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that there is an inverse relationship between serum sodium (Na) and potassium (K) levels in patients with diabetic coma. The present study was undertaken to determine whether such an inverse relation depends upon plasma glucose levels in diabetic patients for their glycemic control. We examined tw...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Saito T,Ishikawa S,Higashiyama M,Nakamura T,Rokkaku K,Hayashi H,Kusaka I,Nagasaka S,Saito T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to investigate glucose metabolism longitudinally during pregnancy to explore mechanisms underlying gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). We reviewed a total of 62 pregnant Japanese women who underwent a 75g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) twice during pregnancy (median: early, 13; late, 28 w...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Saisho Y,Miyakoshi K,Ikenoue S,Kasuga Y,Matsumoto T,Minegishi K,Yoshimura Y,Itoh H

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypertension and norepinephrine hypersecretion in a 59-year-old woman suffering from malignant pheochromocytoma with multiple metastases were appropriately controlled with alpha- and beta- blockers, and alpha-methyltyrosine (alpha-MT), a catecholamine-synthesis inhibitor. Metastasized vertebrae were treated with exter...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Teno S,Tanabe A,Nomura K,Demura H

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have shown the correlation between vitamin D [25(OH)D] deficiency and thyroid autoimmunity and reducing of thyroid autoantibodies in patients with normal levels of vitamin D combining with thyroid hormone replacement. However, other authors not agree with this association. It is still unclear whether t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Botelho IMB,Moura Neto A,Silva CA,Tambascia MA,Alegre SM,Zantut-Wittmann DE

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid disease is known to be associated with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We investigated the prevalence of thyroid disease in patients with idiopathic PAH (IPAH) or heritable PAH (HPAH), and the factors affecting the pathogenesis of thyroid disease. We retrospectively evaluated 59 patients with IPAH or HP...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Satoh M,Aso K,Nakayama T,Saji T

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The proteins found in cow milk have been reported to cause systemic inflammation. Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is known to be involved in the development of several metabolic disorders including insulin resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. However, the effect of thiazolidinediones (TZDs) on ER stress...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kang SB,Kim HM,Kim HJ,Seok H,Huh JH,Lee BW,Kang ES,Lee HC,Cha BS

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nesfatin-1 is a polypeptide derived from the posttranslational processing of the N-terminal fragment of nucleobindin 2 (NUCB2), that was originally identified as an anorexigenic hypothalamic neuropeptide. A number of reports have recently shown that NUCB2/nesfatin-1 is widely expressed in various peripheral tissues, i...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Cao X,Liu XM,Zhou LH

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) disease (VHLD) is a hereditary autosomal dominant syndrome that causes various benign and malignant tumors. VHLD is caused by mutations in the VHL tumor suppressor gene. Here, we report a mutation in the VHL gene in a Japanese family with VHLD type 2A, characterized by pheochromocytoma (PHE), a...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Imanaka M,Iida K,Takahashi K,Tsuji K,Nishizawa H,Fukuoka H,Takeno R,Takahashi Y,Okimura Y,Kaji H,Chihara K

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the cross-sectional relationship between GA and HbA1c in 142 type 2 diabetic patients who had an HbA1c level < 7.5% for at least one year without fluctuation by more than 0.5%. We also followed the changes of GA and HbA1c in 18 type 2 diabetic patients for 16 weeks as they progressed from untreated severe h...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takahashi S,Uchino H,Shimizu T,Kanazawa A,Tamura Y,Sakai K,Watada H,Hirose T,Kawamori R,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of monosodium L-glutamate (MSG) to neonatal mice produces a hypothalamic syndrome consisting of stunted growth and later development of obesity. We assayed plasma insulin (IRI), thyroxine (T4) and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) to investigate their roles in the growth of the mice. Two mg/g body we...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamamoto T,Matsuo S,Ueshima Y,Inoue F,Kinugasa A,Sawada T

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenesis of pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1b (PHP-1b) is related to the loss of methylation at the GNAS exon A/B region, which is combined with epigenetic defects at other differentially methylated GNAS regions in most sporadic cases. In this study, we established a method for evaluating the methylation status of...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kinoshita K,Minagawa M,Takatani T,Takatani R,Ohashi M,Kohno Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence of an association between hypothyroidism and coronary heart disease. We decided to look at the relationship between hypothyroidism and LDL subclasses' pattern including small, dense LDL to define a biochemical basis for better management of the CHD risk of these patients. We utilized a case-control d...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Abbas JM,Chakraborty J,Akanji AO,Doi SA

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven patients with growth hormone (GH)-secreting pituitary adenoma were treated preoperatively with octreotide (Sandostatin or SMS 201-995; a somatostatin analogue), and were compared with 18 non-treated patients in their clinical courses and adenoma analyses. Octreotide treatment improved the endocrinological data i...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tsukamoto N,Nagaya T,Kuwayama A,Takano K,Shizume K,Sugita K,Seo H

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the diurnal variation in GH receptor (GHR) mRNA in liver and skeletal muscle of 3-month-old GH-deficient and -sufficient mice using quantitative real-time RT-PCR. lit/lit (GH deficient) or lit/+ (GH sufficient) mice were fed ad libitum and lights were on between 0600 and 2000. Tissues we...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Itoh E,Iida K,del Rincon JP,Kim DS,Thorner MO

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytologic localization and cellular levels of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-4 (IGFBP-4) in follicular and stromal compartments of normal and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) ovaries during follicular growth and regression were investigated by the avidin/biotin immunoperoxidase method with a polyclonal...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Peng X,Maruo T,Samoto T,Mochizuki M

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cushing's disease rarely appears as a consequence of hereditary disease. However, familial diseases with diminished glucocorticoid feedback are associated with secondary hypercorticotropinism and have been shown to give rise to pituitary adenomas. We here describe the rare case of a 30-year old female patient with con...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Haase M,Schott M,Kaminsky E,Lüdecke DK,Saeger W,Fritzen R,Schinner S,Scherbaum WA,Willenberg HS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are differences in the susceptibility of rat strains to pituitary growth and lactotroph proliferation caused by long-term treatment with estrogens. To investigate the pituitary mechanism for this strain difference in estrogen-induced lactotroph proliferation, we compared the abilities of 17-β estradiol (E2) and ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Mitsui T,Ishida M,Izawa M,Arita J

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia (FHH) is a benign syndrome with elevated levels of serum calcium, relative hypocalciuria, and non-suppressed serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) levels. FHH usually occurs by a heterozygous mutation of the calcium sensing receptor (Casr), but some FHH patients show no mutations of the ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kanazawa H,Tanaka H,Kodama S,Moriwake A,Kobayashi M,Seino Y

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to minimally invasive follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC), widely invasive FTC is aggressive and is associated with a dire prognosis. However, prognostic factors of widely invasive FTC have not been intensively investigated. In this study, we investigated this issue in a series of 79 widely invasive FTC pat...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ito Y,Hirokawa M,Masuoka H,Yabuta T,Fukushima M,Kihara M,Higashiyama T,Takamura Y,Kobayashi K,Miya A,Miyauchi A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00