Plasma glucagon levels measured by sandwich ELISA are correlated with impaired glucose tolerance in type 2 diabetes.

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：:Hypophysitis, which is often accompanied by pituitary dysfunction, is classified into several subtypes based on the cause, histology, and the location of inflammation in the pituitary gland. A definitive diagnosis requires pituitary biopsy, which is invasive, and the process is limited to specialized clinical settings...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takagi H,Iwama S,Sugimura Y,Takahashi Y,Oki Y,Akamizu T,Arima H

更新日期：2020-04-28 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：: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：:The effect of a synthetic steroidal anti-androgen, TZP-4238, on steroid-induced rat prostatic hyperplasia was investigated. Male Wistar rats were divided into four experimental groups. Group 1 consisted of intact controls. The other animals were castrated. The castrated animals were treated for 7 weeks with 1) testost...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Murakoshi M,Tagawa M,Inada R,Suzuki M,Mizokami A,Watanabe K

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antidiabetic effects of Lactobacillus casei (LC) on a non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) model, KK-Ay mice, were investigated. The oral administration of LC to male 4-week-old KK-Ay mice, or raising the mice on a 0.05% LC-containing diet significantly decreased the plasma glucose at 8 to 10 weeks of a...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Matsuzaki T,Yamazaki R,Hashimoto S,Yokokura T

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To measure thyroid-stimulating antibody (TSAb) in sera from patients with Graves' disease, we developed a new assay system with using frozen stocks of CHO-K1 cells. CHO-K1 cells transfected with cloned thyrotropin (TSH) receptor on a 96 well plate were frozen in Cell Banker and stored at -70 degrees C. Three days befo...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Takano T,Sumizaki H,Amino N

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian 20alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (20alpha-HSD), which converts progesterone to a derivative devoid of biological activity, plays a crucial role in achieving the short estrous cycle in rats. Although 20alpha-HSD activity has also been demonstrated in the thymus, its molecular nature, function, and regulatio...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hirabayashi K,Suzuki M,Takahashi M,Nishihara M

更新日期：2001-10-01 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：:The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of administration of recombinant human growth hormone (hGH) in patients with Noonan syndrome. hGH was administered (0.5 IU/kg/week) to 15 patients with Noonan syndrome over a 2 year period. Average patient age prior to therapy was 7.5 +/- 2.5 (mean +/- SD) yr, ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ogawa M,Moriya N,Ikeda H,Tanae A,Tanaka T,Ohyama K,Mori O,Yazawa T,Fujita K,Seino Y,Kubo T,Tanaka H,Nishi Y,Yoshimoto M

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nationwide epidemiologic survey of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23)-related hypophosphatemic diseases was conducted in 2010 to clarify the prevalence and the clinical presentations of the disorders. A questionnaire inquiring the experience of patients with these diseases was sent to randomly selected hospitals th...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Endo I,Fukumoto S,Ozono K,Namba N,Inoue D,Okazaki R,Yamauchi M,Sugimoto T,Minagawa M,Michigami T,Nagai M,Matsumoto T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PRL surges in female rats have dual effects of luteal function: either inducing luteolysis during the estrous cycle or rescuing and maintaining luteal function during pseudopregnancy. We analyzed these apparent contradictory effects in relation to apoptosis. The detection of fragmented DNA and in situ 3'-end labeling ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kanuka H,Matsuyama S,Ohnishi M,Matsumoto Y,Nishihara M,Takahashi M

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we focused on the patient age as an indicator of tumor growth and prognostic significance in both clinical papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and subclinical papillary microcarcinoma (PMC: PTC ≤ 1 cm). In clinical PTC, young age (< 30 years) and old age (≥ 60 years) significantly affected the disease-fr...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Ito Y,Miyauchi A,Kobayashi K,Miya A

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Effects of reserpine treatment, not associated with pituitary irradiation, on the pituitary-adrenocortical axis in a total of 37 untreated patients with Cushing's disease were evaluated. With short-term treatment (2 mg daily for 2 weeks, n = 36), basal excretion of urinary 17-OHCS significantly decreased from 11.2 +/-...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Minamori Y,Yasuda K,Murayama M,Morita H,Yamakita N,Miura K

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that IA-2 autoantibodies (Ab) facilitated the diagnosis of Japanese insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), but the number tested was not large enough to investigate whether IA-2Ab can improve the diagnostic accuracy. In this report, sera from 78 patients with less than 2 year-disease durati...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kasuga A,Ozawa Y,Maruyama T,Ishihara T,Amemiya S,Saruta T

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triptolide, a major active component of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F (TWHF), is known to have multiple pharmacological activities. However, studies have also shown that triptolide is highly toxic to the reproductive system by disrupting normal androgen and estrogen signaling. In the present study, we investigated the...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Zhang J,Liu L,Mu X,Jiang Z,Zhang L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma CRH levels were measured in patients with non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) as the pituitary-adrenal abnormalities have been reported in NIDDM. They were also measured after oral administration of 75 g glucose to examine whether glucose increased plasma CRH along with insulin secretion. The baseli...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hashimoto K,Nishioka T,Takao T,Numata Y

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial and brain natriuretic peptides (ANP and BNP, respectively) are cardiac hormones. During cardiac development, their expression is a maker of cardiomyocyte differentiation and is under tight spatiotemporal regulation. After birth, however, their ventricular expression is only up-regulated in response to various c...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kuwahara K,Nakao K

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a form of non-Langerhans histiocytosis. In this report, we show a case of ECD presenting diabetes insipidus and multiple xanthogranulomas received glucocorticoid treatment over a year. During this period, xanthogranulomas improved in response to the glucocorticoid therapy. Furthermore,...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Taguchi T,Iwasaki Y,Asaba K,Yoshida T,Takao T,Ikeno F,Nakajima H,Kodama H,Hashimoto K

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity consists of hypertrophy and hyperplasia of adipocytes. Although the number of adipocytes is influenced by anatomical location, nutritional environment, hormone and genetic variation, it has been thought to be determined by the proliferation of precursor cells and subsequent differentiation. However, our recent...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hanamoto T,Kajita K,Mori I,Ikeda T,Fujioka K,Yamauchi M,Okada H,Usui T,Takahashi N,Kitada Y,Taguchi K,Kajita T,Uno Y,Morita H,Ishizuka T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the influence of short-term treatment with exenatide twice daily or liraglutide once daily on daily blood glucose fluctuations in 40 patients with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled by sulfonylureas. The patients in a multicenter, open-label trial were randomly assigned to receive add-on exenatide (1...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Nagakura J,Yamakawa T,Taguri M,Tsuchiya H,Shigematsu E,Suzuki J,Morita S,Kadonosono K,Terauchi Y

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a rare condition characterized by inflammation of the pituitary gland, hypophysitis usually results in hypopituitarism and pituitary enlargement. The most critical outcome of hypopituitarism is caused by secondary adrenal insufficiency. Glucocorticoid deficiency is a life-threatening condition, and patients who dev...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Aikawa E,Horie I,Naganobu K,Nozaki A,Kamada A,Abiru N,Kawakami A

更新日期：2020-11-28 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：: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：: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：:We recently reported three cases of severe hypertriglyceridemia caused by tamoxifen-treatment after breast cancer surgery. In that report we showed that one of the three patients had apo E3/3 and another had E4/2 phenotype. There are few data about the relationship between apoprotein E phenotype, one of modifiers of l...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hozumi Y,Kawano M,Saito T,Miyata M

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:In recent times, the role of fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been increasingly investigated. However, to our knowledge, no systematic analysis has been conducted yet to evaluate the relationship between FGF21 levels and GDM. Confirmed studies related to circ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Jia J,Wei W,Yu F,Liu R,Shen Y,Zhang R,Yuan G,Zhou H

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00