Three single nucleotide variants of the SIRT1 gene are associated with overweight in a Chinese population: a case control study.

abstract：:We examined 13 patients with euthyroid Graves' disease suspected ophthalmologically, by comparing them with 20 patients with untreated Graves' disease and by following them up for 5 to 10 years. They had Graves' ophthalmopathy (NOSPECS class II-IV) without other ocular diseases, normal levels of serum thyroid hormones...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kashiwai T,Tada H,Asahi K,Hidaka Y,Tamaki H,Iwatani Y,Amino N

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have revealed that decline in cellular nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) levels causes aging-related disorders and therapeutic approaches increasing cellular NAD+ prevent these disorders in animal models. The administration of nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) has been shown to mitigate aging-rel...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Irie J,Inagaki E,Fujita M,Nakaya H,Mitsuishi M,Yamaguchi S,Yamashita K,Shigaki S,Ono T,Yukioka H,Okano H,Nabeshima YI,Imai SI,Yasui M,Tsubota K,Itoh H

更新日期：2020-02-28 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：:Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) is generally indolent in nature and, even though it metastasizes to distant organs, the prognosis is normally excellent. In contrast, the overall survival (OS) of patients with radioactive iodine (RAI)-refractory and progressive metastases is dire, because no effective therapies ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ito Y,Suzuki S,Ito K,Imai T,Okamoto T,Kitano H,Sugitani I,Sugino K,Tsutsui H,Hara H,Yoshida A,Shimizu K

更新日期：2016-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to determine pathophysiology of body water control in hypernatremic subjects with hypothalamic space-occupying lesions. Eight subjects with hypothalamic space-occupying lesions were divided into two groups of hypernatremia in the presence or absence of body water deficit. In 5 dehydrat...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hayashi T,Murata M,Saito T,Ikoma A,Tamemoto H,Kawakami M,Ishikawa SE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although gonadal estrogens are known to facilitate the development of skeletal lesion in SHOX haploinsufficiency, controversy exists as to whether gonadal estrogens are disadvantageous to pubertal growth. To clarify this matter, we analyzed growth pattern in 31 Japanese patients with a normal karyotype and molecularly...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Fukami M,Nishi Y,Hasegawa Y,Miyoshi Y,Okabe T,Haga N,Nagai T,Tanaka T,Ogata T

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:The inflammatory biomarkers that fully characterize the metabolically unhealthy (MU) state-which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD)-remain unclear. Recent studies suggest follistatin-like protein 1 (FSTL1) could be used as a biomarker for inflammation and CVD, however there is little information on FSTL...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Lee SY,Kim DY,Kyung Kwak M,Hee Ahn S,Kim H,Kim BJ,Koh JM,Rhee Y,Hwa Kim C,Hyun Baek K,Min YK,Hun Lee S,Kang MI

更新日期：2019-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been indicated that some subsets of clinically nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma exhibit immunohistochemical and ultrastructural features of somatotroph or corticotroph cells, which are described as silent somatotroph and corticotroph adenomas, respectively. We here describe a 70-year-old woman with nonfunctioni...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Sakaguchi H,Koshiyama H,Sano T,Inoue D,Hashimoto N,Aoki N,Nakao K

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:This is a case report of an 18-year-old man with central diabetes incipidus (DI). An MRI done three months after the onset of the DI did not disclose a responsible lesion. Four months later, a second MRI showed the location of the tumor origin at the upper pituitary stalk and median eminence. Eight months later, the t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Saeki N,Uchida D,Tatsuno I,Saito Y,Yamaura A

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) are two structurally related hormones which produce similar biological activities such as metabolic and growth promoting actions. Their receptors, insulin and IGF-1 receptors, also share similarities in both structure and functions such as tyrosine-specific protein kina...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kadowaki T,Tobe K,Honda-Yamamoto R,Tamemoto H,Kaburagi Y,Momomura K,Ueki K,Takahashi Y,Yamauchi T,Akanuma Y,Yazaki Y

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：: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：: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：:The presence of human progesterone receptor (PR) mRNA variants has been demonstrated in uterine endometrium and breast tissues as well as in cancer cells of these tissues. While exon deletions by the alternative splicing in these variants have been reported, there are few reports available on the PR mRNA variants with...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamanaka T,Hirata S,Shoda T,Hoshi K

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to define the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis in non-insulin dependent diabetic rats (WBN/Kob), we measured plasma corticotropin releasing factor (CRF), as well as arginine vasopressin (AVP), ACTH, and corticosterone (B), CRF concentrations in the median eminence (ME), the remainder of the hypo...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tojo C,Takao T,Nishioka T,Numata Y,Suemaru S,Hashimoto K

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：:We describe a case of diabetes insipidus (DI) due to a pituitary tumor in a 33-year-old pregnant woman who developed a sudden onset of polyuria (over 8 l/day) and polydipsia at 30 weeks of gestation. Her plasma concentration of vasopressin (AVP) was low compared with high serum osmolality (298 mOsm/kg), and her urine ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hashimoto M,Ogura T,Otsuka F,Yamauchi T,Mimura Y,Hayakawa N,Makino H,Ota Z,Seki N,Hiramatsu Y,Kudo N

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：:To assess the daily iodine intake in a population study, we have compared the validity and degree of reliability of the urine iodide/creatinine ratios and iodide concentrations of casual samples as a representative index of daily urine iodide excretion. The morning urine samples were obtained from apparently healthy 2...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Konno N,Yuri K,Miura K,Kumagai M,Murakami S

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:21-hydroxylase deficiency (21-OHD) is the most common type of congenital adrenal hyperplasia. In addition to the clinical problems caused by adrenal insufficiency and androgen excess, a risk for obesity and metabolic syndrome during young adulthood is a major ramification of the disease. Although glucocorticoid therap...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takishima S,Nakajima K,Nomura R,Tsuji-Hosokawa A,Matsuda N,Matsubara Y,Ono M,Miyai K,Takasawa K,Morio T,Hasegawa Y,Kashimada K

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Since accumulation and interaction of immune cells including T cells and monocytes/macrophages are involved in the processes of atherosclerosis, atherosclerosis is currently understood as an inflammatory disorder. Entrapment of extracellular matrices components such as hyaluronan by monocytes and macrophages, as well ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tabata T,Mine S,Okada Y,Tanaka Y

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：: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：:The synthesis of nitric oxide (NO) has been demonstrated in the vascular endothelial cells and other tissues including in rat and bovine adrenal gland. To determine whether NO mediates aldosterone production in the adrenals, we evaluated the basal production of aldosterone, and the ACTH or angiotensin II (A II)-stimul...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Nakayama T,Izumi Y,Soma M,Kanmatsuse K

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise is a fundamental component of diabetes management. However, choosing inappropriate type or timing of exercise is associated with mild or severe hypoglycemia either during exercise or several hours after exercise. Several studies have shown that impaired counterregulatory responses triggers hypoglycemia. There...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Mao Y,Wen S,Zhou M,Zhu S,Zhou L

更新日期：2019-09-28 00:00:00