Long-term follow-up of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1.

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 present study used intermittently scanned continuous glucose monitoring (isCGM) in 10 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 7-day outpatient treatment with the combination of intensive insulin therapy and sodium-glucose transporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2-I). All participa...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kurozumi A,Okada Y,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2020-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously identified an approximately 200 bp "minimal promoter" of the rat TSH receptor (TSHR) gene which is essential for the promoter activity. In the present study, we have cloned and characterized an upstream region of the TSHR promoter to disclose additional functional element(s). We screened a rat genomic li...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ikuyama S,Ohe K,Takayanagi R,Kohn LD,Nawata H

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to evaluate the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) levels and PAI-1 activity in young and lean women with PCOS and to compare with controls matched for age and weight. Thirty two women with PCOS and 25 weight and age-matched healthy controls participated in this study. Patients were...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tarkun I,Cantürk Z,Arslan BC,Türemen E,Tarkun P

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：:Glucocorticoids play a critical role in the regulation of homeostasis, including metabolism. In patients with Cushing's syndrome, chronic glucocorticoid excess disrupts physiological internal milieu, resulting in central obesity, muscle atrophy, fatty liver, and insulin resistance. However, the relationship among vari...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Uehara M,Yamazaki H,Yoshikawa N,Kuribara-Souta A,Tanaka H

更新日期：2020-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Some categories of drugs are known for causing hyperglycemia or diabetes such as steroids, antipsychotics, and immunosuppressant. However, there has been little evidence from studies about the proportion of each drug in the context of drug-induced diabetes. In this study, we used data from the Japanese Adverse Drug Ev...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Konishi H,Shirakawa J,Arai M,Terauchi Y

更新日期：2019-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) is mainly associated with Graves' disease but rarely with autonomously functioning thyroid nodule (AFTN). We herein report a case of AFTN associated with TPP in which the latter resolved after (131) I therapy for the former. We analyzed the genes encoding thyrotropin receptor (TSHR)...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ozaki H,Mori K,Nakagawa Y,Hoshikawa S,Ito S,Yoshida K

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Ectopic ACTH syndrome (EAS) is a potentially fatal endocrine disease that results from a variety of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), such as small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and bronchial typical carcinoid. Typical carcinoid is usually slow growing, not associated with plasma progastrin releasing peptide (ProGRP) elevation....

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamamuro T,Inoue K,Nagai Y,Azuma D,Yamamoto A,Hara K,Kohara M,Iwata T,Nakatsuka S,Morii E,Yamamoto T

更新日期：2018-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We here describe two patients with empty sella syndrome who had variable and abnormal ACTH and cortisol secretory profiles. The patients are a 58-year old male and a 41-year old female, both of whom were neurotic. In both cases, low-dose dexamethasone suppression tests (1 mg, p.o., overnight) caused variable responses...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Sakaguchi H,Inoue D,Kataoka K,Koshiyama H,Aoki N,Nakao K

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

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：:As 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is becoming a common imaging modality, the number of thyroid incidentalomas identified by FDG-PET (PET incidentaloma) is increasing. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the risk of cancer in focal thyroid PET incidentaloma in healthy subjects of...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ohba K,Nishizawa S,Matsushita A,Inubushi M,Nagayama K,Iwaki H,Matsunaga H,Suzuki S,Sasaki S,Oki Y,Okada H,Nakamura H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate the prevalence of islet autoantibodies and other organ-specific autoantibodies in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) patients and characterize their clinical features. Glutamic acid decarboxylase antibody (GADA), insulinoma antigen 2 antibody (IA-2A), zinc transporter 8 antibody (ZnT8A) and...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Pan S,Wu T,Shi X,Xie Z,Huang G,Zhou Z

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone plays an important role in growth hormone (GH) synthesis and secretion. To study the relationship between thyroid function and urinary GH secretion in the hyperthyroid and hypothyroid states, we measured thyroid hormones, simultaneously with serum and urinary GH levels, in 54 patients with thyroid dise...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Murao K,Takahara J,Sato M,Tamaki M,Niimi M,Ishida T

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to elucidate the role of activin A in capillary formation. When bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC) were cultured in a collagen gel, basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) induced tube formation. Activin A also induced tube formation and the addition of two factors together was more ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hayashi Y,Maeshima K,Goto F,Kojima I

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a rare case of ACTH-independent macronodular adrenal hyperplasia (AIMAH) with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). A 57-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital for further examination of secondary hypertension and bilateral adrenal macrotumors. Midnight serum cortisol elevation with undetectable plasma AC...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Sato M,Soma M,Nakayama T,Kosuge K,Suzuki R,Okada K,Komatsu K,Sugitani M,Matsumoto K

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported that short-term continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) with the professional iPro2© CGM device is a good clinical indicator of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels. However, there was no significant correlation between CGM and HbA1c levels when HbA1c levels were >8.0%. To further investigate this is...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamada M,Okada S,Oda H,Nakajima Y,C Bastie C,Kasai Y,Osaki A,Shimoda Y,Shibusawa R,Uehara R,Saito T,Ozawa A,Yamada E

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on two siblings with classic simple virilizing 21-hydroxylase deficiency whose neonatal screening for serum 17alpha-hydroxyprogesterone (17-OHP) gave normal results. The proband, a girl with clitoromegaly whose screening 17-OHP value had been 9.2 ng/ml, was diagnosed at the age of 6 months, and her elder bro...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

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

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kallmann syndrome is defined by the association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia. The KAL1 gene is responsible for the X-linked form of Kallmann syndrome. We analyzed the KAL1 gene in 19 Japanese patients with Kallmann syndrome, including 3 patients reported previously, using PCR-direct sequencing method. ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Izumi Y,Tatsumi K,Okamoto S,Ogawa T,Hosokawa A,Matsuo T,Kato Y,Fukui H,Amino N

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triple A syndrome, also known as Allgrove syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by adrenal insufficiency, achalasia and alacrima. It has recently been reported that this syndrome is caused by mutations in the AAAS gene. In the present study, we analyzed the AAAS gene in a Japanese patient with...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Katsumata N,Hirose H,Kagami M,Tanaka T

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen plays pivotal roles in body weight regulation through its effects on central estrogen receptor-α (ERα) expression. ERα is found on neurons that express the hypothalamic anorexigenic factors steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) mediate these effects of estrogen. As the gonadal hormonal...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Iwasa T,Matsuzaki T,Mayila Y,Yano K,Irahara M

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A preoperative molecular-based diagnostic technique for thyroid papillary and anaplastic carcinomas was recently developed to detect oncofetal fibronectin (onfFN) messenger RNA (mRNA) in fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) by means of reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). We report two cases of th...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takano T,Shiba E,Tada H,Yoshimura H,Yoshida K,Doi R,Amino N

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) are diagnosed in Japan by comprehensive or organ-specific diagnostic criteria. To date, organ-specific criteria have been established for several organs, but not for the thyroid. We attempted to establish diagnostic criteria for IgG4-related thyroid disease (IgG4-RTD) based...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takeshima K,Li Y,Kakudo K,Hirokawa M,Nishihara E,Shimatsu A,Takahashi Y,Akamizu T

更新日期：2021-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in insulin receptor function have been associated with insulin resistant states such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Several types of mutations in the insulin receptor gene have been identified in patients with genetic syndromes of extreme insulin resistance. We have studied a 10-year-old Japanese gir...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hashiramoto M,Osawa H,Ando M,Murakami A,Nishimiya T,Nakano M,Nishida W,Onuma H,Makino H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of TSH receptor antibody (TRAb) has been recommended to predict the risk of neonatal hyperthyroidism (NH) in pregnant women with Graves' disease (GD). For the first generation TRAb (TRAb1) assay with commercial kit (Brahms, Berlin, Germany; or Cosmic co., Tokyo, Japan) an arbitrary limit of 40 U/l or 5...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kamijo K

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic blocking antibodies against programmed death 1 (PD1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) are applied for advanced cancer therapy, but induce a wide range of immune-related adverse events. In our recent case of a 52-year-old female doctor suffering from breast cancer having metastasized to the lung...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Okahata S,Sakamoto K,Mitsumatsu T,Kondo Y,Noso S,Ikegami H,Shiba T

更新日期：2019-04-25 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：:Impaired secretion of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) has been suggested to contribute to the deficient incretin effect in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Recent studies, however, have not always supported this notion. Since Japanese patients with T2DM usually have severe impairment in the earlyphase of...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Lee S,Yabe D,Nohtomi K,Takada M,Morita R,Seino Y,Hirano T

更新日期：2010-01-01 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