False negatives at neonatal screening for congenital adrenal hyperplasia in two siblings with 21-hydroxylase deficiency.

abstract：:The islets of Langerhans is the endocrine function region of pancreas, which exist in five cell types. The majority of endocrine cells are insulin-secreting β cells, mixed up with glucagon-secreting α-cells. The islets of Langerhans are highly vascularized, and the capillary network around the islet is about five time...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Cao Z,Wang X

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Ketoconazole is an imidazole derivative used to treat systemic and superficial mycoses by inhibiting sterol synthesis in fungi. The drug impairs steroid hormone synthesis by blocking mitochondrial P450-dependent enzyme systems. Because of its potent inhibitory effects on adrenal steroidogenesis, ketoconazole is valuab...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Chou SC,Lin JD

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is common in obese women with insulin resistant type 2 diabetes for which metformin treatment is getting established in addition to clomiphene. However, lean PCOS patients are sometimes accompanied with type 1 diabetes. It remains unclear whether these patients are insulin resistant an...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shigiyama F,Kumashiro N,Rikitake T,Usui S,Saegusa M,Kitamura M,Uchino H,Hirose T

更新日期：2016-01-01 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 effect of luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) on the neuronal activity of CA1 and CA3 regions of the hippocampus was studied by means of extracellular recordings in the castrated male, intact male, castrated female, and castrated female injected s.c. with 20 micrograms estradiol benzoate (EB) for 3 days. ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Osada T,Kimura F

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：:Synchronous associations of Cushing's syndrome (CS) and primary aldosteronism (PA) with multiple adrenocortical adenomas secreting each hormone independently have rarely been reported. Herein, we describe a unique case of PA associated with CS with detailed clinical and pathological investigations. Bilateral adrenal m...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Onoda N,Ishikawa T,Nishio K,Tahara H,Inaba M,Wakasa K,Sumi T,Yamazaki T,Shigematsu K,Hirakawa K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemical staining and cell immunoblot assay (CIBA) were performed in adenoma tissue from five patients with Cushing's disease and three patients with clinically silent corticotroph adenomas. All five patients with Cushing's disease showed hypersecretion of ACTH (130, 190, 331, 120, and 130 pg/ml), high level...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Kojima Y,Suzuki S,Yamamura K,Ohhashi G,Yamamoto I

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a 7-year-old patient of short stature who had normal GH secretion, but a very low serum IGF-I level. On admittance, his height and weight were 102.2 cm (-3.8S.D.) and 15.7 kg (-1.8S.D.), respectively. His bone age was 2 years and 8 months. The serum GH responses to insulin, glucagon and L-dopa we...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Mochizuki D,Kodama H,Kubota K,Mori Y,Nakamoto N,Kobayashi M,Yanagawa Y,Kaji M

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:We describe a patient with right adrenal tumor detected incidentally. The tumor was diagnosed as pheochromocytoma by endocrinological and radiological studies, and was removed surgically. Graves' disease, which had been in remission for more than two decades after discontinuation of antithyroid drug treatment, relapse...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Abe M,Mori K,Nagai K,Ito S

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：:The incidence of noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features (NIFTP) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is significantly lower in Asian countries than Western countries; however, the difference remains unexplained. This study aimed to evaluate the incidence of NIFTP in tumors diagnos...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Hirokawa M,Higuchi M,Suzuki A,Hayashi T,Kuma S,Miyauchi A

更新日期：2020-10-28 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：: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：:The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between daily glycemic variability (GV) and visit-to-visit glycemic variability (VVV) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). A total of 156 outpatients with T2DM who had undergone continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for 5 days were included in this study. Indices ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tsuchiya T,Saisho Y,Murakami R,Watanabe Y,Inaishi J,Itoh H

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The amounts of immunoreactive proinsulin (IRP), immunoreactive insulin (IRI), and C-peptidelike immunoreactivity (CPR) in six insulinomas and one nesidioblastosis lesion were determined together with those in the surrounding pancreatic tissue. Four non-insulinoma and nondiabetic human pancreases were used as the contr...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Tasaka Y,Nakaya F,Matsumoto H,Odagiri R,Ohgawara H,Omori Y

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：: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：:The present study was aimed to examine the possible functional relationship between melatonin and hypothalamic transmitters, endogenous opioids and excitatory amino acids in controlling gonadotropin secretion in ovariectomized estrogen-primed rats. An intravenous injection of naloxone (mu opioid receptor antagonist), ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Akema T,Ikeda T,Chiba A,Sugiyama H,Sato I,Kimura F,Toyoda J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cases of thyroid papillary carcinoma, a less aggressive cancer, surgeons may hesitate to perform total thyroidectomy on patients with poor general condition because these may experience longer survival without undergoing surgery. To investigate the influence of general patient condition on the patients' survival wh...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Shinohara S,Kikuchi M,Harada H,Takebayashi S,Yunoki K,Yamazaki K

更新日期：2016-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Troglitazone (T) and d-chiroinositol (DCI) have been reported to improve insulin resistance associated with obesity and NIDDM. We tested whether these compounds counteract the insulin antagonistic effects of recombinant human GH. Male Wistar rats were allocated to 4 different treatment groups, rhGH (n=8), rhGH+T (n=7)...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Sugimoto M,Takeda N,Hattori J,Yoshino K,Nakashima K,Okumura S,Ishimori M,Yasuda K

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the prevalence of lymphocytic infiltrate in a large series of pituitary adenomas, we retrospectively studied tumor tissues from 1400 patients. Based on immunocytochemical data, tumors were classified as PRL (n=411), multihormonal (n=310), immunonegative (n=275), ACTH (n=166), GH (n=137), alpha subunit (n=4...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Heshmati HM,Kujas M,Casanova S,Wollan PC,Racadot J,Van Effenterre R,Derome PJ,Turpin G

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:Therapeutic blocking antibodies against programmed death 1 (PD1) and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) are applied for advanced cancer therapy, but induce a wide range of immune-related adverse events. In our recent case of a 52-year-old female doctor suffering from breast cancer having metastasized to the lung...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Okahata S,Sakamoto K,Mitsumatsu T,Kondo Y,Noso S,Ikegami H,Shiba T

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:There are differences in the susceptibility of rat strains to pituitary growth and lactotroph proliferation caused by long-term treatment with estrogens. To investigate the pituitary mechanism for this strain difference in estrogen-induced lactotroph proliferation, we compared the abilities of 17-β estradiol (E2) and ...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Mitsui T,Ishida M,Izawa M,Arita J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary granulomatous hypophysitis (PGH) is a rarely occurred inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. We retrospective review a case of PGH treated by microsurgical transsphenoidal approach and review the appropriately documented cases of PGH collected from the literatures. The patient was a 56-year-old female who p...

journal_title：Endocrine journal

authors： Su SB,Zhang DJ,Yue SY,Zhang JN

更新日期：2011-01-01 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