Growth hormone-releasing hormone and growth hormone secretagogue-receptor ligands: focus on reproductive system.

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the serum level of zonulin, which is an intestinal permeability (IP) biomarker, in primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) and to investigate the relationship between zonulin, calcium, and parathormone (PTH) levels. METHODS:The study included 34 healthy control (HC) and 39 patients with PHPT. Serum calc...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Korkmaz H,Sirin FB,Torus B

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the regulation of follistatin gene expression, porcine granulosa cells were incubated with the translational inhibitor, cycloheximide (CHX), for periods from 6-24 h. This resulted in a 3 to 10-fold increase in follistatin mRNA accumulation compared to vehicle treated control cultures. At 20 h, CHX augmented...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Lindsell CE,Misra V,Murphy BD

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Gallium-68 somatostatin receptor (SMSR) positron emission tomography (PET) and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) are valuable diagnostic tools for patients with neuroendocrine tumours (NETs). To date, a meta-analysis about the diagnostic accuracy of these imaging methods is lacking. A...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Treglia G,Castaldi P,Rindi G,Giordano A,Rufini V

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to investigate different enhancement patterns of solid thyroid nodules on contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and then to evaluate the corresponding diagnostic performance in the differentiation of benign and malignant nodules with and without enhancement. 229 solid thyroid nodules in 196 patients who had und...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Wu Q,Wang Y,Li Y,Hu B,He ZY

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To perform an online survey about the use of Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TIRADS) classification in Italy. METHODS:An online questionnaire was administered to all members of the Italian Society of Medical and Interventional Radiology (Società Italiana di Radiologia Medica ed Interventistica, SIRM...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Mauri G,Gitto S,Cantisani V,Vallone G,Schiavone C,Papini E,Sconfienza LM

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A recent report described a new PCOS-like phenotype in lean older infertile women, and was characterized by high age-specific anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) but hypo- rather than the expected hyper-androgenism. The hypo-androgenism was, furthermore, characterized of, likely, adrenal origin and autoimmune etiol...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Gleicher N,Kushnir VA,Darmon SK,Wang Q,Zhang L,Albertini DF,Barad DH

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In all mammalian species, the 20 amino acids of the genetic code are required for net protein accretion. The nutritional supply of amino acids for growth is defined as the net umbilical uptake of amino acids, representing the net transfer from maternal circulation, through the placenta and then to the fetus, of essent...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Regnault TR,de Vrijer B,Battaglia FC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent animal studies support close associations of Periostin with hepatosteatosis and steatohepatitis. This study is to evaluate the role of serum periostin in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). A hospital-based age-/sex-matched case-control study was conducted. Binary logistic regression and receiver operati...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Zhu JZ,Zhu HT,Dai YN,Li CX,Fang ZY,Zhao DJ,Wan XY,Wang YM,Wang F,Yu CH,Li YM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hormonal status and menopause affect human macrophage function and cardiometabolic risk. In polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients the cardiometabolic risk increases through mechanisms that are largely unknown. We tested the hypotheses that macrophage activation is influenced by menstrual cycle and that ovar...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Tedesco S,Adorni MP,Ronda N,Cappellari R,Mioni R,Barbot M,Pinelli S,Plebani M,Bolego C,Scaroni C,Bernini F,Fadini GP,Cignarella A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are endocrine-disrupting chemicals associated with metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. In humans, little is known about their potential role on obesity. Adiponectin augments the effects of insulin on glucose homeostasis. The expression of adiponectin is reduced in obesity, insu...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Lim JE,Jee SH

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of hypothyroidism on the glucose and insulin levels are controversial, and its impact on the Langerhans islet morphology of adult subjects has been poorly addressed. In spite of hypothyroidism and diabetes mellitus are more frequent in females than in males, most studies using animal models have been done in m...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Rodríguez-Castelán J,Nicolás L,Morimoto S,Cuevas E

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoplasmic Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) was measured with dual wavelength fluorometry in glucagon-producing mouse pancreatic alpha-cells loaded with the indicator fura-2. Spontaneous rhythmic activity in terms of slow oscillations from a basal level was observed at 3 mM glucose. Like in the insulin-secreting beta...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Berts A,Gylfe E,Hellman B

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance in skeletal muscle is a key feature in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes (T2D) that often manifests early in its development. Pharmaceutical and dietary strategies have targeted insulin resistance to control T2D, and many natural products with excellent pharmacological properties are good candidat...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Shi L,Zhang T,Zhou Y,Zeng X,Ran L,Zhang Q,Zhu J,Mi M

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graves' disease, an autoimmune disease with heterogeneous symptoms including Graves' orbitopathy, has a combined genetic/environmental background, where variations within CD28/CTLA-4/ICOS genes are considered as disease markers.Association of CD28c.17+3T>C(rs3116496), CTLA-4g.319C>T(rs5742909), CTLA-4c.49A>G(rs231775)...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Pawlak-Adamska E,Frydecka I,Bolanowski M,Tomkiewicz A,Jonkisz A,Karabon L,Partyka A,Nowak O,Szalinski M,Daroszewski J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormones are now recognized to change in different disease states with important consequences on severity and prognosis of disease. However, little is known about thyroid hormones' alterations in acute liver failure (ALF). To study the changes in thyroid hormones and cardiac thyroid receptors during ALF, we su...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Kostopanagiotou G,Kalimeris K,Mourouzis I,Kostopanagiotou K,Arkadopoulos N,Panagopoulos D,Papoutsidakis N,Chranioti A,Pafiti A,Spanou D,Smyrniotis V,Pantos C

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) amide concentrations were reduced over 85% in all the major brain regions of carboxypeptidase E (Cpe)(fat)/Cpe(fat) mice in comparison to control mice. Using an radioimmunoassay (RIA) specific for glycine-extended CCK (CCK Gly), low levels of CCK Gly were detected in control (0.65 ng/g tissue) an...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Wang W,Cain BM,Beinfeld MC

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has insulin resistance (IR) or reduced β-cell mass, partially due to an increased β-cell apoptosis rate. Pancreatic stone protein/regenerating protein (PSP/reg) is a secretory protein produced in the pancreas and up-regulated dramatically during pancreatic disease. Recent studies reveal...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Yang J,Li L,Raptis D,Li X,Li F,Chen B,He J,Graf R,Sun Z

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Adrenal myelolipoma is an invariably benign neoplasm of the adrenal gland that is the second most common primary adrenal incidentaloma following adrenocortical adenomas. It is composed of elements of adipose tissue and extramedullary hematopoiesis. Hypotheses on stem cells and hormonal factors have been fo...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Decmann Á,Perge P,Tóth M,Igaz P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of central subfield thickness (CST), cube average thickness (CAT), and cube volume (CV) as imaging biomarkers for severity of diabetic retinopathy within the ETDRS-based grades of retinopathy using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). This study aims to evaluate the role of macul...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Saxena S,Caprnda M,Ruia S,Prasad S,Ankita,Fedotova J,Kruzliak P,Krasnik V

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SHARPIN is a novel protein thought to interact with SHANK family and is widely expressed in multiple tissues/cells, including osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Loss-of-function of Sharpin develops the chronic proliferative dermatitis mutation (CPDM) in mice as well as a severe inflammation in other organs. The actual funct...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Xia T,Liang Y,Ma J,Li M,Gong M,Yu X

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric mRNA expression was found in preoptic anterior and hypothalamic anterior areas of the two estrogen receptor isoforms and the gonadotropin-releasing hormone. On the right side of these areas, estrogen receptor alpha mRNA expression reached its peak on estrus day, while on the left side the peak was reached o...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Arteaga-López PR,Domínguez R,Cerbón MA,Mendoza-Rodríguez CA,Cruz ME

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP4) has been demonstrated to be secreted from adipocytes in an unconventional pathway associated with lipolysis. Circulating FABP4 is elevated in metabolic disorders and has been shown to affect various peripheral cells such as pancreatic β-cells, hepatocytes and macrophages, bu...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Dou HX,Wang T,Su HX,Gao DD,Xu YC,Li YX,Wang HY

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to analyze the clinical and genetic characteristics of Chinese children with congenital hyperinsulinemia (CHI) that is spontaneously relieved. METHODS:The patient group comprised 200 children with CHI that were treated at the Beijing Children's Hospital from January 2006 to December 2018. Th...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Xu ZD,Hui PP,Zhang W,Zeng Q,Zhang L,Liu M,Yan J,Wu YJ,Sang YM

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We re-assess the fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and 2-h post-load glucose (2HPG) in the diagnosis of both prediabetes and type 2 diabetes mellitus by developing a gold standard based on beta-cell function. The gold standard was developed in a cohort of 2,152 adult subjects without severe renal or liver dysfunction that ...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Doi SA,Ward GM

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In arthropods, development is controlled by cholesterol-derived steroid hormones: the ecdysteroids. In vertebrates and insects, steroidogenesis is positively regulated and this is mediated by cAMP. In crustaceans, ecdysteroid biosynthesis by steroidogenic organs (Y-organs) is negatively regulated by a neuropeptide, th...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Lachaise F,Sommé G,Carpentier G,Granjeon E,Webster S,Baghdassarian D

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary tumors are highly vascular neoplasms, which suggest an important role of angiogenesis in pituitary tumor growth. We used the human pituitary cell line (HP75) to examine the effects of the growth factors TGFbeta1, bFGF, and EGF on cell growth, and on the regulation of the pro-angiogenic growth factor VEGF-A a...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Horiguchi H,Jin L,Ruebel KH,Scheithauer BW,Lloyd RV

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rathke's cleft cysts (RCC) are lesions that arise from Rathke's pouch. Though frequently incidental, resulting symptoms in a minority of cases are indicators for surgical resection, which may prove beneficial. OBJECTIVE:To characterize a cohort of surgically-resected RCC cases at Oregon Health & Science Uni...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Langlois F,Manea A,Lim DST,McCartney S,Yedinak CG,Cetas JS,Fleseriu M

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that TSH plays a major role in the secretion of thyroid hormones, maintenance of thyroid specific gene expression, and gland growth. In this study, we aimed to evaluate association between tests of thyroid functions (fT3, fT4, TSH) and differentiated thyroid carcinoma. 441 patients operated for nodula...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Gul K,Ozdemir D,Dirikoc A,Oguz A,Tuzun D,Baser H,Ersoy R,Cakir B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the effects of a structured group-based education programme, patient empowerment programme (PEP), compared with usual care on 2-year changes in patient-reported outcomes (PRO) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). A prospective observational study of 715 patients (PEP/non-PEP: 390/325) was conducted to c...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Wong CK,Lam CL,Wan EY,Chan AK,Pak CH,Chan FW,Wong WC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is linked to increased risk of insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus in patients' later life. The aim of this study was to investigate uptake of deoxy-D-glucose by peripheral blood lymphocytes of PCOS patients with normal fasting plasma glucose and normal glucose tolerance test. The...

journal_title：Endocrine

authors： Oleszczak B,Szablewski L,Pliszka M,Głuszak O,Stopińska-Głuszak U

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00