Change of surgical strategy for Graves' disease from subtotal thyroidectomy to total thyroidectomy: a single institutional experience.

abstract：:Sixteen sporadic pheochromocytomas, 3 pheochromocytomas in neurofibromatosis 1, and 4 pheochromocytomas in multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) 2A or 2B were screened for mutations at codon 768 of the RET proto-oncogene by AluI digestion of polymerase chain reaction PCR products and mutations in exon 13 by PCR-single st...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yoshimoto K,Kimura T,Tanaka C,Moritani M,Iwahana H,Itakura M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Betacellulin (BTC) purified from mouse beta cell tumor (betaTC-3) is a new member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF) family which can bind receptor tyrosine kinase, EGF receptor (erbB1) and erbB4. It has been demonstrated that proBTC mRNA was abundantly expressed in human pancreas tissue, and that BTC converted amyl...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Miyagawa J,Hanafusa O,Sasada R,Yamamoto K,Igarashi K,Yamamori K,Seno M,Tada H,Nammo T,Li M,Yamagata K,Nakajima H,Namba M,Kuwajima M,Matsuzawa Y

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of isolated ACTH deficiency who developed autoimmune-mediated hypothyroidism and still showed impaired water diuresis during glucocorticoid replacement therapy is reported. A 45-year-old woman was initially admitted for nausea, vomiting, and general malaise. Her serum sodium and plasma osmolality, ACTH and cort...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kageyama Y

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the immunological aspects of silent thyroiditis, T lymphocyte subsets were analyzed by two-color flow cytometry in 10 patients with silent thyroiditis in the thyrotoxic phase, 12 patients with silent thyroiditis in the recovery phase, and 11 healthy volunteers as a control. The percentages of C...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kushima K,Ban Y,Taniyama M,Itoh K

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, nine patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy with positive clinical activity score (CAS), who were either unresponsive or not suitable for glucocorticoid treatment, were given 100 microg of octreotide three times daily, subcutaneously, for three months. The mean age was 49+/-13 years. All patients were und...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Uysal AR,Corapçioğlu D,Tonyukuk VC,Güllü S,Sav H,Kamel N,Erdoğan G

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to assess the potential predictive factors for follicle growth, ovulation, and pregnancy rate in patients with primary ovarian insufficiency/premature ovarian failure (POI/POF). We enrolled 25 POI patients with desired fertility who were treated and monitored for a minimum of 7 months b...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Miyazaki K,Miki F,Uchida S,Masuda H,Uchida H,Maruyama T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid nodules (TN) are common in the general population, and the clinical importance of diagnosing thyroid nodules is based on excluding the possibility of thyroid cancer, which occurs in 7-15% of cases. The thyroid gland, owing to its superficial location, is easily accessible via thermography, a noninvasive method...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Damião CP,Montero JRG,Moran MBH,de Oliveira Marçal E Silva Carvalho ME,de Farias CG,Brito IB,Saad MAN,Fontes CAP,Fainstein C,Rodrigues MFO,Palombo A,Conci A,da Cruz Filho RA,Lima GAB

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the difference in lymph node-recurrence free survival (LN-RFS), distant recurrence-free survival (DRFS), and cause-specific survival (CSS) between patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in the entire group (Group I) and those with lymph node- and distant-recurrence-free survival...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ito Y,Kudo T,Kihara M,Takamura Y,Kobayashi K,Miya A,Miyauchi A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cushing's disease is primarily caused by adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-producing pituitary adenomas. Pituitary tumor-transforming gene 1 (PTTG1) expression, a hallmark of pituitary tumors, stimulates pituitary cell proliferation. Histone deacetylases (HDACs) play an important role in regulating gene transcription...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Nakada Y,Kageyama K,Sugiyama A,Desaki R,Takayasu S,Niioka K,Murasawa S,Ishigame N,Asari Y,Iwasaki Y,Daimon M

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Sexual differentiation of the rodent brain is recognized to involve transcriptional activation of multiple genes induced by gonadal steroids at developmental stages. To identify the genes differing in expression level between sexes, we analyzed gene expression in male and female rat hypothalami at postnatal day 5 by m...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yonehara K,Suzuki M,Nishihara M

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Components of cyclinD1/cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4)/p16INK4a/pRb pathway are the frequent target of many tumor types. We examined the role of retinoblastoma susceptibility gene (RB1) and the CDK4 gene in human pituitary tumorigenesis. For the RB1 gene, pRb expression and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on 13q in pitu...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Honda S,Tanaka-Kosugi C,Yamada S,Sano T,Matsumoto T,Itakura M,Yoshimoto K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the value of thyroxine administration to prevent recurrence after bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter. Patients that had benign multinodular goiter were operated on with the same surgical principles: ligation of both superior and inferior thyroid arteries on both sid...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kulaçoglu H,Dener C,Ziraman I,Kama NA

更新日期：2000-06-01 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

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：: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：:We investigated the regulation of each intracellular signal transduction system including cyclic AMP (cAMP)-dependent and calcium (Ca2+) messenger systems in bovine adrenal fasciculo-reticularis cells to clarify the exact mode of action of ACTH. Pretreatment with primaquine and quinacrine, which are phospholipase A2 i...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Omura M,Suematsu S,Nishikawa T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a well defined clinical condition, which is characterized by abnormal body composition, impaired physical activity and decreased quality of life. In addition, in recent years, growing interest has been shown towards cardiovascular risks in adult patients affected by GHD. In thi...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Giovannini L,Tirabassi G,Muscogiuri G,Di Somma C,Colao A,Balercia G

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Angiopoietin-like protein 8 (ANGPTL8) is a newly discovered adipokine plays an important role in energy homoeostasis, obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D). Although lifestyle modification in obesity and T2D is known to offer metabolic benefits, there is paucity of comprehensive data on change in ANGPTL8. We investigated ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hu H,Yuan G,Wang X,Sun J,Gao Z,Zhou T,Yin W,Cai R,Ye X,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific circulating markers of thyroid hormone action on cardiac function have not been established. Although the relationship between thyroid function and plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels has been evaluated in patients with thyroid disorders, the relationship between these parameters in the g...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ohba K,Okada E,Goto Y,Suzuki S,Machii M,Nonaka D,Matsushita A,Sasaki S,Suda T,Oki Y,Takase H

更新日期：2020-04-28 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：: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：:We assessed the incidence of elderly patients in Japanese acromegalics and the characteristics of their clinical presentation. We also evaluated the safety and efficacy of transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) in this patient group. During the 28-year period from 1980 to 2007 we treated 290 patients with acromegaly at our hos...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Arita K,Hirano H,Yunoue S,Fujio S,Tominaga A,Sakoguchi T,Sugiyama K,Kurisu K

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Patients with adrenal insufficiency require appropriate glucocorticoid replacement therapy; however, reliable biological parameters for optimizing glucocorticoid supplementation are limited. The physician has to rely primarily on clinical judgment, carefully taking into account signs and symptoms potentially suggestiv...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Watanabe T,Ozawa A,Ishii S,Tomaru T,Shibusawa N,Saito T,Yamada E,Horiguchi K,Nakajima Y,Matsumoto S,Yoshino S,Katano-Toki A,Hashimoto K,Mori M,Okada S,Satoh T,Yamada M

更新日期：2018-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase plays an important role in folate metabolism. Individuals who are type 2 diabetes mellitus have greatest risk for the development of vascular complications. The results of studies which assessed the association between MTHFR C677T polymorphism and T2DM with vascular complications we...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Zhang D,Zhou Y,Han L,Ji H,Li J

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syndrome of McCune-Albright syndrome (MAS) is clasically defined as a triad presentation with the findings of polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, café-au-lait spots, and sexual precocity. However, not all patients present with complete symptoms. A 52-year-old man was diagnosed as having a variant of McCune-Albright syn...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Sargin H,Gozu H,Bircan R,Sargin M,Avsar M,Ekinci G,Yayla A,Gulec I,Bozbuga M,Cirakoglu B,Tanakol R

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the relationship between serum thyrotropin and components of metabolic syndrome in a Chinese cohort. A total of 1534 adult inhabitants in DaDong district of Shenyang were asked to fulfill the questionnaire, complete physical examination and OGTT. Blood samples were collected to test thyrotropin (TSH), fasti...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Lai Y,Wang J,Jiang F,Wang B,Chen Y,Li M,Liu H,Li C,Xue H,Li N,Yu J,Shi L,Bai X,Hou X,Zhu L,Lu L,Wang S,Xing Q,Teng X,Teng W,Shan Z

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here a patient with primary hyperparathyroidism who had high serum intact PTH levels for over 16 months after parathyroidectomy without signs of recurrence or persistence of the disease. The patient was a 48-year-old female who appeared well nourished (body mass index, 23.7). She was received subtotal gast...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Mimura Y,Kanauchi H,Ogawa T,Ohkura F,Kaminishi M

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00