Pioglitazone reduces ER stress in the liver: direct monitoring of in vivo ER stress using ER stress-activated indicator transgenic mice.

abstract：:Immunoreactive activin A (ir-activin A) release from cultured rat anterior pituitary cells was examined by measuring ir-activin A in culture medium by a specific radioimmunoassay. Ir-activin A release into the medium increased over 1-18 days, and reached a maximal level at 12-15 days. The basal levels of ir-activin A ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Liu ZH,Shintani Y,Wakatsuki M,Sakamoto Y,Harada K,Zhang CY,Saito S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features (NIFTP) and invasive encapsulated follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (EFV-PTC) are indistinguishable preoperatively. CD26 expression in follicular tumor-uncertain malignant potential (FT-UMP) is reported to be clearly higher t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takagi S,Hirokawa M,Nagashima K,Higuchi M,Kadota K,Ishikawa R,Sato M,Miyauchi A,Miyake Y,Haba R

更新日期：2020-12-28 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：:Irisin is an adipokine/myokine which could be connected with insulin sensitivity. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is characterized by oligo- or anovulation, polycystic ovary, hyperandrogenism and insulin resistance. The aim of the present study was to determine the relationship between serum irisin concentration and ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Adamska A,Karczewska-Kupczewska M,Lebkowska A,Milewski R,Górska M,Otziomek E,Nikolajuk A,Wolczynski S,Kowalska I

更新日期：2016-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Total thyroidectomy was performed in 455 patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma between 1978 and 1999. Serum calcitonin (CT) was determined preoperatively in all patients using polyclonal antibodies. Among the subjects, 25 patients showed elevated serum calcitonin levels preoperatively. Pathological diagnoses ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yokoi K,Imai T,Shibata A,Hibi Y,Kikumori T,Funahashi H,Nakao A

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：: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：:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of insulin secretion-sensitivity index-2 (ISSI-2) in the identification of the role of pancreatic iron deposition on beta-cell function in thalassemia major. Tissue iron stores were measured with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the liver (R2), pancreas (R2*), and...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Karadas N,Yurekli B,Bayraktaroglu S,Aydinok Y

更新日期：2019-12-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between thyroid ultrasonography and laboratory, and the relationship of thyroid volume with clinical and anthropometric parameters, are not well clarified. Aim of the study was to investigate normal and hypoechoic-inhomogeneous not nodular thyroid gland in predicting thyroid tests, and to assess the corre...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Trimboli P,Rossi F,Thorel F,Condorelli E,Laurenti O,Ventura C,Nigri G,Romanelli F,Guarino M,Valabrega S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pregnancy in acromegalic patients is a rare event, but is usually uneventful, with stable GH and IGF-I levels and no tumor enlargement. Medical treatment can usually be withdrawn without problems and although no major adverse event has been reported, the suspension of drug treatments is generally recommended. No cas...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kasuki L,Neto LV,Takiya CM,Gadelha MR

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：:We present a rare case of a 66-year-old woman with the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuresis (SIAD) accompanied by an empty sella whose symptoms were seen twice in the eight years after the administration of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) or prochlorperazine. No diuresis or suppression of the plasma le...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shimada T,Higashi K,Kimura K,Shido T,Tomita K

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The common phenotype of nuclear receptor superfamily 5, group A, member 1 (NR5A1) gene mutations in 46,XY is gonadal dysgenesis without adrenal deficiency. Though the phenotype of gonadal dysgenesis is variable, ranging from complete female to normal male genitalia, an asymptomatic 46,XY male is rare. Preserved fertil...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yagi H,Takagi M,Kon M,Igarashi M,Fukami M,Hasegawa Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating anti-islet autoantibodies in sera are used as a predictive marker for type 1 diabetes (T1D). We here report two Japanese patients with autoimmune thyroid disease complicated with T1D in whom the time course of anti-islet autoantibodies were observed before the clinical onset of diabetes. Case 1: A woman wh...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Horie I,Kawasaki E,Shimomura A,Satoh T,Ueki I,Kuwahara H,Ando T,Abiru N,Usa T,Eguchi K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 (PHA1) is a rare genetic disease characterized by resistance to aldosterone, and the renal form of PHA1 is associated with heterozygous inactivating mutations in NR3C2, which encodes mineralocorticoid receptor (MR). Here we report a case of renal PHA1 due to a novel frameshift mutation i...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kawashima Sonoyama Y,Tajima T,Fujimoto M,Hasegawa A,Miyahara N,Nishimura R,Hashida Y,Hayashi A,Hanaki K,Kanzaki S

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the concentration of epidermal growth factor (EGF) in platelets, serum and plasma obtained from 47 patients with Graves' disease, 7 with hypothyroidism and 20 healthy subjects. The platelets of the subjects were collected from platelet rich plasma and lysed by freezing and thawing. Subsequently the platel...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Okada M,Kamiya Y,Ito J,Yoshimata T,Kawaguchi M,Shibata H,Fujinami T

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare aggressive tumor originating from adrenocortical parenchymal cells and its incidence is approximately 1 per million population per year. An oncocytic ACC is a recently identified entity among the several known histopathological variants of ACC, which is characterized by oncocyt...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Harada K,Yasuda M,Nakano Y,Yoshida K,Umeda Y,Yagi T,Yamazaki Y,Sasano H,Otsuka F

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes is a serious threat to human health all over the world. It is particularly important to look for the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes. Researchers have found that obesity was associated with a broad chronic inflammatory response and type 2 diabetes. And tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) is one of the ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Wu S,Dong K,Wang J,Bi Y

更新日期：2018-06-27 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：:Angiotensin II (Ang II) is a well-known peptide that maintains the balance of electrolytes in the higher vertebrates. Ang II stimulation in the adrenal gland induces the synthesis of mineralocorticoids, mainly aldosterone, through the up-regulation of aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) gene expression. Additionally, it ha...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ito R,Shima H,Masuda K,Sato I,Shimada H,Yokoyama A,Shirahige K,Igarashi K,Sugawara A

更新日期：2020-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) is associated with compromised signal transductions via PTH receptor (PTH-R) and other G-protein-coupled receptors including GHRH-R. To date, while GH deficiency (GHD) has been reported in multiple patients with PHP-Ia caused by mutations on the maternally expressed GNAS coding regions a...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Sano S,Iwata H,Matsubara K,Fukami M,Kagami M,Ogata T

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:To address the effects of ezetimibe on high-density lipoprotein (HDL) metabolism, the HDL subclasses, cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), and lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) were measured in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Twenty-three hypercholesterolemic patients with T2DM were tre...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yagyu H,Nagashima S,Takahashi M,Miyamoto M,Okada K,Osuga J,Ishibashi S

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Studies on resveratrol in a wide range of concentrations on obese mice and adipose cells are necessary to comprehend its range of diverse and contradictory effects. In this study, we examined the anti-obesity effects of resveratrol on high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese mice at dosages ranging from 1 to 30 mg/kg treatme...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Chang CC,Lin KY,Peng KY,Day YJ,Hung LM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies revealed that obesity is a low-grade, chronic inflammatory state that is accompanied by the enhanced production of multiple chemokines. In particular, metabolic syndrome (MS) and visceral adipose tissue (VAT) accumulation are significantly associated with certain chemokines in adults. However, little is...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ishii M,Araki S,Goto M,Yamamoto Y,Kusuhara K

更新日期：2016-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the case of an infant presenting with sexual ambiguity at birth. The child presented with labia majora synechia, thready genital tubercle and perineal hypospadias. The karyotype was 46,XY. Low testosterone levels with no response to hCG administration, associated with high LH level for her age, h...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Richard N,Leprince C,Gruchy N,Pigny P,Andrieux J,Mittre H,Manouvrier S,Lahlou N,Weill J,Kottler ML

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:We propose a new classification of thyroid follicular cell tumors which is correlated with patient's prognosis. It is unique as to two new categories: borderline malignancy between benign and malignant, and moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma (MDA) as a differentiation classification to stratify tumor aggressive...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kakudo K,Bai Y,Liu Z,Li Y,Ito Y,Ozaki T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00