Calcitonin serum levels in different pituitary diseases. A preliminary report.

abstract：:Central hypothyroidism (CH) is a rare cause of hypothyroidism characterized by a defect of thyroid hormone production due to an insufficient TSH stimulation. CH can be congenital in the case of genetic defects or acquired in the case of lesions affecting either pituitary or hypothalamus. Diagnosis is usually made on a...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Lania A,Giavoli C,Ferrante E,Beck-Peccoz P

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments were undertaken to study the effect of complete food removal on body weight, pituitary growth hormone (GH), plasma GH and glucose concentration in male and female Wistar rats. Plasma and pituitary GH levels were measured by means of a specific radioimmunoassay. Plasma glucose concentration decr...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Gonzalez C,Jolin T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report the results of a correlation study between the direct Immunobead Test (d-IBT) and other techniques for antisperm antibodies detection. The Gelatin Agglutination Test (GAT) and Tray Agglutination Test (TAT) were used to detect antibodies in blood serum and seminal plasma ("indirect methods"). The Dir...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Dondero F,Lenzi A,Gandini L,Lombardo F,Culasso F

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because women affected by polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) present an increased cardiovascular risk, the safety of estroprogestin treatment is debated and contrasting data have been reported. However, cardiovascular risk is not the same in all PCOS women and individual cardiovascular risk should be assessed before sta...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Carmina E

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following presentation and diagnosis, microprolactinomas usually follow a benign course and rarely progress to macroprolactinomas. However, clinically significant enlargement of prolactinomas during pregnancy, presumably related to estrogen stimulation, has been reported. This report describes a patient with amenorrhe...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Garcia MM,Kapcala LP

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the 24-h profile of serum melatonin (MT) in 16 patients with Cushing's syndrome (11 pituitary- and 5 adrenal-dependent) aged 38.1 +/- 13.8 years and in 19 patients with acromegaly due to GH-secreting pituitary adenoma aged 52 +/- 11.9 years. Thirty-three healthy subjects aged 30 +/- 7 years and 26 healthy...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Terzolo M,Piovesan A,Alì A,Codegone A,Pia A,Reimondo G,Torta M,Paccotti P,Borretta G,Angeli A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was performed in 30 patients who needed steroid therapy: courses of triamcinolone or DTM 8-15 given orally lasted 30 days. In 15 of these patients glucoactive corticosteroids were administered in combination with 5 micrograms/day of 25OH-vitamin D3 (25OHD3). 47Calcium oral test and 99mTc-MDP kinetics...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Nuti R,Vattimo A,Turchetti V,Righi G

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A longitudinal study was carried out in an area of endemic goiter of north-eastern Sicily. Three different surveys (in 1977, 1983 and 1994) evaluated the epidemiological prevalence of goiter in schoolchildren of the endemic area (towns of Bronte, Troina and Maniaci) in comparison to an iodine sufficient control area (...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Regalbuto C,Squatrito S,La Rosa GL,Cercabene G,Ippolito A,Tita P,Salamone S,Vigneri R

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithyroid drugs may be proposed as the firstline therapy for hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease since some patients undergo prolonged remission after drug withdrawal. On the other hand, some studies, though controversial, indicated that methimazole (MMI) has some immunomodulating activity. We retrospectively ana...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Mazza E,Carlini M,Flecchia D,Blatto A,Zuccarini O,Gamba S,Beninati S,Messina M

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Hexarelin (HEX) is a synthetic hexapeptide with strong GH-stimulating activity. We evaluated GH response (expressed as maximum value after stimulus [Cmax] and as area under the curve [AUC]) to HEX at the doses of 1 microg/kg i.v. (HEX 1) and 2 microg/kg i.v. (HEX 2), in comparison with the responses to GHRH ...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Guzzaloni G,Grugni G,Morabito F

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous clinical and experimental reports suggest that a high von Willebrand factor (vWf) level reflects endothelial damage or endothelial dysfunction. The present study was designed to evaluate vWf in subclinical hyperthyroidic subjects compared with euthyroidic subjects. We selected 20 subclinical hyperthyroidic su...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Coban E,Aydemir M,Yazicioglu G,Ozdogan M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR)gamma plays a pivotal role in regulating adipocyte differentiation and metabolism, but also has an antiproliferative effect in several tissues, including colonic mucosa, where it is highly expressed. Loss-of-function mutations have been reported in about 10% of sporadic...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Bogazzi F,Ultimieri F,Raggi F,Russo D,Brogioni S,Cosci C,Gasperi M,Costa A,Viacava P,Mosca F,Bartalena L,Martino E

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An equimolar mixture of 3H-E1-S2 and 14C-E1 was injected in one shot into the inferior vena cava near the heart of female Japanese monkey. Following the injection, blood was collected from the aortic arch at intervals of 15 s over a period of 10 min. The concentration of radioactivities in the whole blood and serum wa...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Sakai C,Yamamoto T,Kitawaki J,Yoshiji S,Yasuda J,Yamaki J,Fujii M,Tsukamoto K,Honjo H,Okada H

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The diagnosis of vitamin D deficiency is based on the determination of total plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OHD) concentrations, but the regulation of vitamin D 25-hydroxylation is not a major consideration and very little information is available on this activity. To check what factors could interfere with the...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Bellastella G,Scappaticcio L,Longo M,Carotenuto R,Carbone C,Caruso P,Maio A,Paglionico VA,Vietri MT,Maiorino MI,Esposito K

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Human amniotic fluid (HAF) contains multipotent stem cells [amniotic fluid-derived stem cells (AFSC)] which can differentiate into a variety of different cell types. Recently, we demonstrated that obestatin, a peptide encoded by the ghrelin gene, exerts anti-apoptotic effects in pancreatic beta-cells and human islets ...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Trovato L,De Fazio R,Annunziata M,Sdei S,Favaro E,Ponti R,Marozio L,Ghigo E,Benedetto C,Granata R

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with active Cushing's syndrome have an increased thrombotic tendency. We chose to reassess the mechanism underlying the thrombophilic state associated with this clinical condition using sensitive markers of coagulation and fibrinolysis activation in 17 patients with active disease. The results were compared w...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Fatti LM,Bottasso B,Invitti C,Coppola R,Cavagnini F,Mannucci PM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:C-reactive protein (CRP) is an inflammatory marker that predicts coronary heart disease (CHD) risk. Diabetes mellitus (DM) counts as a CHD risk equivalent. We aimed to compare serum high sensitivity CRP (hs-CRP) levels in Type 2 diabetic (T2DM) men without CHD, non-diabetic CHD patients and T2DM pat...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Bahceci M,Tuzcu A,Ogun C,Canoruc N,Iltimur K,Aslan C

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Visceral adipose tissue-derived serine protease inhibitor (vaspin) is an adipocytokine with insulin-sensitizing effects. Accumulating data implied that vaspin represents a compensatory mechanism but it is unknown how vaspin change during ageing. This study was designed to examine the correlation between plasma ...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Xu X,Wen J,Lu Y,Ji H,Zhuang J,Su Y,Liu B,Li H,Xu Y

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to now, the diagnosis of silent corticotroph cell pituitary adenomas has been made only on histopathological basis. In this paper we describe 6 women affected with pituitary adenomas, without evident clinical features of hypercortisolism, in whom retrospective data suggested the possibility of clinically diagnosing...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Ambrosi B,Colombo P,Bochicchio D,Bassetti M,Masini B,Faglia G

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is a rare disease characterized by non-suppressed TSH in spite of high free thyroid hormone levels. Up to date, in the literature, there are more than 600 RTH cases, but co-incidental hypophyseal adenoma was reported in only 1 case. In the literature, despite reported cases with thy...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Berker D,Aydin Y,Tutuncu YA,Isik S,Delibasi T,Berker M,Guler S,Kamel N

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We previously demonstrated that patients suffering from moderate hypothyroidism were at increased risk of thrombosis contrasting with the bleeding tendency of those presenting severe hypothyroidism. The latter state is associated with hemostatic anomalies including von Willebrand type 1 disease and increased ...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Chadarevian R,Jublanc C,Bruckert E,Giral P,Ankri A,Leenhardt L,Chapman J,Turpin G

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 39-year-old Danish woman was treated with an oral dose of 400 MBq 131I for a non-toxic goiter with compression symptoms. Serum anti-TPO and TSH receptor antibodies were negative before radioiodine therapy. The patient developed hyperthyroidism four months after treatment and ophthalmopathy after another three months...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Nygaard B,Metcalfe RA,Phipps J,Weetman AP,Hegedüs L

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anatomy studies normally precede physiology. While the anatomy of the penis and the biochemical and molecular regulation of erection are largely known, the exact anatomical description of the human clitoris was produced in 1998, the taxonomy of female sexual dysfunctions classified in 1999, and biochemistry of female ...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： D'Amati G,di Gioia CR,Proietti Pannunzi L,Pistilli D,Carosa E,Lenzi A,Jannini EA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In testicular descent to the scrotum, a multistep process, many anatomical and hormonal factors play a role. Cryptorchidism occurs in about 1-2% of males and may cause secondary degeneration of the testes. Animal models have shown that abnormalities, in the calcitonin gene-related peptide (CgRP) activity, could be rel...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Zuccarello D,Morini E,Douzgou S,Ferlin A,Pizzuti A,Salpietro DC,Foresta C,Dallapiccola B

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of growth hormone (GH) secretory status is often difficult because of the intermittent nature of GH release and resulting wide swings in plasma GH levels. Urinary GH excretion holds promise as an index of integrated plasma GH free of this limitation, but technical problems have prevented its use until r...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Winer LM,Shaw MA,Baumann G

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Energy homeostasis and body weight are regulated by a highly complex network involving the brain, the digestive tract, and white adipose tissue (WAT). Knowledge about signaling pathways connecting digestive tract and WAT is limited. Gut hormone ghrelin and adipokine adiponectin are both decreased in obesity ...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Kiewiet RM,Hazell MJ,van Aken MO,van der Weerd K,Visser JA,Themmen AP,van der Lely AJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral mononuclear cells (MNC) of patients with autoimmune thyroid disease have been shown to proliferate when cultured with human thyroglobulin (hTg). In addition, such a phenomenon is apparent in a certain number of healthy individuals. In this study we have attempted to correlate hTg-induced MNC proliferation, ...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Bagnasco M,Orlandini A,Melioli G,Venuti D,Canonica GW,Ferrara GB

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity are the major public health problems. Substantial efforts have been made to define loci and variants contributing to the individual risk of these disorders. However, the overall risk explained by genetic variation is very modest. Epigenetics is one of the fastest growing research area...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Desiderio A,Spinelli R,Ciccarelli M,Nigro C,Miele C,Beguinot F,Raciti GA

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated the relationship between seasonal variations in 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels and growth in prepubertal children during both the pretreatment year and the first year of GH treatment. METHODS:The study included 249 short prepubertal children with a broad range of GH secretion, GH(...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Andersson B,Swolin-Eide D,Kriström B,Gelander L,Magnusson P,Albertsson-Wikland K

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Arginine vasopressin (AVP) may be involved in metabolic syndrome (MetS) by altering liver glycogenolysis, insulin and glucagon secretion, and pituitary ACTH release. Moreover, AVP stimulates the expression of 11β-hydroxysteroid-dehydrogenase-type 2 (11β-HSD2) in mineralocorticosteroid cells. We explored whether...

journal_title：Journal of endocrinological investigation

authors： Canivell S,Mohaupt M,Ackermann D,Pruijm M,Guessous I,Ehret G,Escher G,Pechère-Bertschi A,Vogt B,Devuyst O,Burnier M,Martin PY,Ponte B,Bochud M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00