Evaluation of salivary cortisol measurements for the diagnosis of subclinical Cushing's syndrome.

abstract：:Gitelman syndrome (GS) is a salt-wasting tubulointerstitial disease of autosomal recessive inheritance (OMIM613395) caused by genic mutation of SLC12A3, which codes thiazide-sensitive Na-Cl cotransporter (NCCT) gene. The gene mutation of the majority of GS patients is compound heterozygous. This study analyzes two cas...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Luo J,Yang X,Liang J,Li W

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein the case of a 1-year-old boy with McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) who presented with infantile-onset Cushing' s syndrome caused by ACTH independent macronodular adrenal hyperplasia (AIMAH). Abdominal CT, MRI, and adrenal scintigraphy with (131)I-adosterol identified bilateral adrenal involvement with t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hamajima T,Maruwaka K,Homma K,Matsuo K,Fujieda K,Hasegawa T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic foot ulcer is a chronic, refractory, frequent complication in diabetic patient. Its treatment often requires multidisciplinary joint efforts, diverse strategies have been adopted to address this annoying issue, including stem cell-based therapy/acellular dermal matrix/negative pressure wound therapy etc. Howe...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shu X,Shu S,Tang S,Yang L,Liu D,Li K,Dong Z,Ma Z,Zhu Z,Din J

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of prolactin and bromocriptine on neutral and phospholipids of liver, adipose tissue and serum were studied in mature male bonnet monkeys. Hyperprolactinemia (ovine prolactin, 250 micrograms/kg body weight/day, i.p. for 30 days) elevated hepatic total lipids and phospholipids and decreased total and free chole...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Aruldhas MM,Thampi LT,Kumari TM,Govindarajulu P

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TSH receptor antibody (TRAb) titer has been reported to be correlated with Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO). However, the correlation between GO activity and TRAb titer assessed with a third-generation assay has not been reported. We enrolled 238 untreated Graves' disease patients who came to the outpatient clinic of Ito H...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Mukasa K,Yoshimura Noh J,Kouzaki A,Ohye H,Kunii Y,Watanabe N,Yoshihara A,Matsumoto M,Suzuki M,Ito K

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) has a potent bone resorbing activity in vitro, but some recent studies have shown that PGE2 stimulates bone formation in vivo. The effects of PGE2 on the bone are therefore still controversial. We attempted to reveal the effects of PGE2 on bone in vivo more directly; we injected PGE2 continuous...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takada M,Yamamoto I,Yuu I,Kigami Y,Ohnaka Y,Morita R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) develop other endocrine neoplasms or their relatives develop MTC, we investigated the mutations in the RET proto-oncogene in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B (MEN 2B, N = 1) and sporadic MTC (N = 6). DNA from MTC tissue and the peri...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Migita M,Hiromatsu Y,Sato M,Yang D,Kameo J,Jimi A,Nonaka K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since there is increasing evidence that postprandial hyperglycemia is a risk factor for the development of macrovascular complications, it is important to predict postprandial hyperglycemia in the early stages of glucose intolerance, and routine medical checkups provide a good opportunity to do so. The aim of this stu...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Goto M,Yamamoto-Honda R,Shimbo T,Goto A,Terauchi Y,Kanazawa Y,Noda M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last ten years a liquid formulation of liothyronine (L-T3) became available. To date, no studies on its systematic use have been reported. This study is aimed at assessing the reliability of liquid L-T3 in achieving target TSH in patients with differentiated thyroid cancers (DTC). Twenty-one high risk DTC patie...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Trimboli P,Centanni M,Virili C

更新日期：2016-06-30 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：: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 gene responsible for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) has recently been cloned, and its germline mutations were identified in patients with this syndrome. The majority of the mutations, frameshift or nonsense mutations, are expected to result in a loss of function of the gene product menin. Since the con...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Miyauchi A,Sato M,Matsubara S,Ohye H,Kihara M,Matsusaka K,Nishitani A,Takahara J

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Anaplastic carcinoma arises from differentiated carcinoma and generally shows a dire prognosis. Anaplastic transformation may occur not only in primary tumors but also in metastatic lymph nodes. We encountered 5 cases of papillary carcinoma showing anaplastic transformation in lymph nodes that were curatively resected...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ito Y,Higashiyama T,Hirokawa M,Fukushima M,Inoue H,Yabuta T,Tomoda C,Uruno T,Kihara M,Takamura Y,Miya A,Kobayashi K,Matsuzuka F,Miyauchi A

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：:There are two main subtypes of GH-producing pituitary adenoma: densely granulated (DG-type) and sparsely granulated (SG-type). Despite the difference in drug responsiveness between the two subtypes, their molecular mechanisms remain unknown. The aim of this study is to evaluate the differential expression of genes r...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kato M,Inoshita N,Sugiyama T,Tani Y,Shichiri M,Sano T,Yamada S,Hirata Y

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：:The pathophysiology is distinct in various state of glucose metabolism abnormalities. As the defect of individuals with normal oral glucose tolerance (NGT) but isolated high glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), i.e. iHH, was ambiguous, we aimed to investigate the insulin sensitivity and β-cell function of iHH. According t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Fu Q,Sun M,Wang Z,He W,Duan Y,Yang T

更新日期：2018-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Carcinoma showing thymic-like differentiation (CASTLE) is a rare tumour of the thyroid, which arises from ectopic thymic tissue or remnants of branchial pouches. A systematic review of English literature evidences less than thirty cases; from them, it clearly appears that CASTLE is considered an indolent slow-growing ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Cappelli C,Tironi A,Marchetti GP,Pirola I,De Martino E,Delbarba A,Castellano M,Rosei EA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-secreting tumor presents with a variety of clinical features. We outlined the features of ACTH release and characteristics of corticotroph adenoma cells. We especially focused on the corticotroph adenomas in patients with no clinical features of Cushing's disease. Subclinic...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kageyama K,Oki Y,Nigawara T,Suda T,Daimon M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：:Following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station which occurred on March 11, 2011 due to the Eastern Japan Great Earthquake (the Accident), there have been concerns over elevation of the risk of thyroid cancer among children due to internal exposure to radioactive iodine. In Fukushima Prefecture, ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Iwaku K,Noh JY,Sasaki E,Suzuki N,Kameda T,Kobayashi S,Yoshihara A,Ohye H,Watanabe N,Suzuki M,Matsumoto M,Kunii Y,Mukasa K,Sugino K,Ito K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylin (Gn), a bioactive peptide, and its receptor, guanylyl cyclase-C (GC-C), are primarily present in the intestine and maintain homeostasis in body fluids. Recently, rats whose macrophages overexpress Gn and GC-C were found to be resistant to diet-induced obesity. Considering that obesity is strongly related to a...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hasegawa K,Akieda-Asai S,Fujii Y,Bae CR,Yasuda M,Date Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 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

abstract：:A 19-year-old girl presented at our emergency room with hypokalemic periodic paralysis. She had a thyrotoxic goiter and had experienced three paralytic attacks during the previous 2 years on occasions when she stopped taking antithyroid drugs. In addition to thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP), she had metabolic acido...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Im EJ,Lee JM,Kim JH,Chang SA,Moon SD,Ahn YB,Son HS,Cha BY,Lee KW,Son HY

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies indicate that succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) genes B, C, or D are, at least partly, involved in the pathogenesis of pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma. Of these three genes, the SDHD gene mutation is most closely related with paragangliomas of the neck. Here we describe a case of an SDHD-related paragangl...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamashita R,Usui T,Hashimoto S,Suzuki H,Takahashi M,Honkura K,Iwamoto K,Kodama E,Tagami T,Naruse M,Shimatsu A,Kaise K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is a common symptom in patients visiting the clinic of psychosomatic medicine. A 250-μg synthetic ACTH (1-24) test (rapid ACTH test) and Beck depression inventory (BDI) were performed for 62 patients presenting with fatigue who visited the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at Fukuoka Tokushukai Hospital. Pa...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Matsubayashi S,Nakatake N,Hara T

更新日期：2020-01-28 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：: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