Insulin secretion-sensitivity index-2 could be a novel marker in the identification of the role of pancreatic iron deposition on beta-cell function in thalassemia major.

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：: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：:A 73-year-old Japanese woman was referred for examination of right flank pain and progressive hypertension. Abdominal CT incidentally detected a right adrenal mass 8 cm in size. The tumor exhibited isodensity by CT and contained high-intense lesion by T2-weighted MRI. Scintigraphy with (131) I-metaiodobenzylguanidine ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Goto J,Otsuka F,Kodera R,Miyoshi T,Kinomura M,Otani H,Mimura Y,Ogura T,Yanai H,Nasu Y,Makino H

更新日期：2008-03-01 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：:Thyroid cancer and Graves' disease may present simultaneously in one patient. The incidence of the development of hyperthyroidism from metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma is rare. We herein report a case of metastatic follicular carcinoma complicated with Graves' disease after total thyroidectomy. A 57-year-ol...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Aoyama M,Takizawa H,Tsuboi M,Nakagawa Y,Tangoku A

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of monosodium L-glutamate (MSG) to neonatal mice produces a hypothalamic syndrome consisting of stunted growth and later development of obesity. We assayed plasma insulin (IRI), thyroxine (T4) and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) to investigate their roles in the growth of the mice. Two mg/g body we...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamamoto T,Matsuo S,Ueshima Y,Inoue F,Kinugasa A,Sawada T

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurohypophysial hormone, oxytocin, is involved in the regulation of energy metabolism. Adiponectin (APN) is an adipose tissue-specific serum protein that inversely associates with metabolic syndrome (MetS). High-molecular-weight adiponectin (HMW APN) is considered the active form. In the present study, we aimed t...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yuan G,Qian W,Pan R,Jia J,Jiang D,Yang Q,Wang S,Liu Y,Yu S,Hu H,Sun W,Ye J,Mao C,Zhuang R,Zhou L

更新日期：2016-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of add-on therapy with sitagliptin on glycemic control was prospectively investigated in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) receiving insulin alone or insulin combined with oral antidiabetic drugs. Seventy-one patients were evaluated (38 men and 33 women aged 63.9 ± 10.2 years). They were divided...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Katsuno T,Ikeda H,Ida K,Miyagawa J,Namba M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors are newly established anti-diabetic agents with a unique glucose-lowering mechanism. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy and safety of the sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitor ipragliflozin (Ipra) for metabolic markers and cardiovascular parameters in Japa...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Nomiyama T,Shimono D,Horikawa T,Fujimura Y,Ohsako T,Terawaki Y,Fukuda T,Motonaga R,Tanabe M,Yanase T,Collaborators of Fukuoka Study of Ipragliflozin (FUSION) trial.

更新日期：2018-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared treatment satisfaction between daily dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors and a weekly DPP-4 inhibitor in patients with type 2 diabetes. The study was a 12-week, open-label, randomized, multicenter, controlled trial. Participants were Japanese patients with type 2 diabetes who had received daily DPP-4...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Oita M,Miyoshi H,Ono K,Nakamura A,Cho KY,Nomoto H,Yamamoto K,Omori K,Manda N,Kurihara Y,Aoki S,Atsumi T

更新日期：2018-02-26 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：:Recent studies have demonstrated that troglitazone has the capacity to improve insulin resistance. The present study was undertaken to determine the effect of troglitazone on in vivo insulin action, the activities of the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex and 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (3-HADH) in muscle, and m...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Oshida Y,Kako M,Nakai N,Shimomura Y,Li L,Sato J,Ohsawa I,Sato Y

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study reported a high prevalence of autoantibodies to alpha-enolase in lymphocytic hypophysitis and these antibodies efficiently distinguished lymphocytic hypophysitis from pituitary tumors. To confirm this, we examined autoantibodies to alpha-enolase in patients with lymphocytic hypophysitis (n = 17), pitu...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tanaka S,Tatsumi KI,Takano T,Murakami Y,Takao T,Yamakita N,Tahara S,Teramoto A,Hashimoto K,Kato Y,Amino N

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:It is known that endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is provoked under diabetic conditions and is possibly involved in the development of insulin resistance. In this study, using ER stress-activated indicator (ERAI) transgenic mice which express green fluorescent protein under ER stress conditions, we directly evaluated...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yoshiuchi K,Kaneto H,Matsuoka TA,Kasami R,Kohno K,Iwawaki T,Nakatani Y,Yamasaki Y,Shimomura I,Matsuhisa M

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：:In this study we confirmed our previous findings on the importance of IgE in Graves' disease and further investigated the relationships existing among Graves' disease, IgE, and interleukin-4. Two hundred and thirty-two newly diagnosed Graves' disease patients were treated with methimazole for 2 years, and were classif...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Yamada T,Komiya I,Miyahara Y,Komatsu M,Shima I,Inazawa T,Aizawa T

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:It has been demonstrated the involvement of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) on obesity and related metabolic disorder. We investigated the effects of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) on obesity and on glucose/fat homeostasis in mice fed on a high-fat (45%) diet. BCAA was dissolved in 0.5% methylcellulose and added ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Arakawa M,Masaki T,Nishimura J,Seike M,Yoshimatsu H

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose 2,6-bisphosphate (F2,6BP) is a powerful allosteric activator of 6-phosphofructo-1-kinase, which is the rate-limiting enzyme for glycolysis. Mitogenic stimulation of lymphocytes is related to an enhanced rate of glucose utilization and F2,6BP mediated activation of glycolysis. To determine the effect of hyperg...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Atsumi T,Chiba H,Yoshioka N,Bucala R,Koike T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of chimeric TSH-LH/CG receptors were constructed by substituting homologous segments of the extracellular domain of the rat TSH receptor with corresponding segments of rat LH/CG receptor: C1 (amino acids 37-123 substituted), C2 (91-112), C3 (173-234), C4 (233-266), C5 (268-304), C6 (112-305) and C7 (36-404). ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Akamizu T,Inoue D,Kosugi S,Ban T,Kohn LD,Imura H,Mori T

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates whether urinary levels of pentosidine, pyrraline and acrolein adduct are increased in type 2 diabetes (DM), and whether these levels are correlated with glycemic control and clinical traits. Urinary levels of pentosidine, pyrraline and acrolein adduct in DM patients (n = 100) recruited from the...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Daimon M,Sugiyama K,Kameda W,Saitoh T,Oizumi T,Hirata A,Yamaguchi H,Ohnuma H,Igarashi M,Kato T

更新日期：2003-02-01 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

abstract：:We saw a 57-yr-old female non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) patient with antiinsulin antibody, in whom insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) was shown to be effective as a blood glucose-lowering agent. Due to the presence of the antibody, the patient suffered from postprandial hyperglycemia and frequent h...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kajimoto Y,Kawamori R,Fujitani Y,Kishimoto M,Kubota M,Yamasaki Y,Morishima T,Kamada T

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：:Circulating human GH (hGH) consists of several molecular isoforms. It was previously reported that the proportion of 20 kilodalton hGH (20K-hGH) was elevated in the serum of patients with active acromegaly. In this study, we investigated the effects of octreotide and transsphenoidal adenomectomy on the proportion of 2...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Murakami Y,Shimizu T,Yamamoto M,Kato Y

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon dysfunction as well as insulin dysfunction is associated with the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). However, it is still unclear whether the measurement of plasma glucagon levels is useful in understanding the pathophysiology of T2DM. We recently reported that sandwich ELISA provides more accurate plasm...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kobayashi M,Satoh H,Matsuo T,Kusunoki Y,Tokushima M,Watada H,Namba M,Kitamura T

更新日期：2020-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A 43-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital for further treatment of acromegaly with high plasma GH and IGF-I levels after transsphenoidal adenomectomy and subsequent treatment with bromocriptine. Physical examination and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an active acromegalic appearance with residual pitui...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Matsuno M,Sohmiya M,Yamamoto H,Kato Y

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a de novo heterozygous 5,013,940 bp terminal deletion of chromosome 15q26 in a 13 9/12 -year-old Japanese girl with short stature (-3.9 SD), mild mental retardation, and ventricular septal defect (VSD). This terminal deletion involved IGF1R but not NR2F2, and was associated with an addition of telomere repea...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Dateki S,Fukami M,Tanaka Y,Sasaki G,Moriuchi H,Ogata T

更新日期：2011-01-01 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