abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to study the relationship between growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) in critically ill patients. DESIGN:Case-control study of critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit was carried out. PATIENTS:Six critically ill patients (51-78 years) who required ven...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ross R,Miell J,Freeman E,Jones J,Matthews D,Preece M,Buchanan C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose was to investigate whether the function of the pinealocytes is changed in patients with disturbed metabolic rate or in subjects with marked obesity. DESIGN:Venous blood was sampled every second hour between 1800 and 0800 h, and urine collected between 2200 and 0700 h. PATIENTS:Eight patients wit...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Röjdmark S,Berg A,Rössner S,Wetterberg L

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the reproducibility of 24-h serum growth hormone (GH) concentration profiles in adults. DESIGN:24-h serum GH concentrations were constructed by drawing blood samples at 20-min intervals. Four study occasions over a period of 1 year were chosen to assess the reproducibility. SUBJECTS:Six healthy adu...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Saini S,Hindmarsh PC,Matthews DR,Pringle PJ,Jones J,Preece MA,Brook CG

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate whether pyridostigmine, a cholinesterase inhibitor which is thought to act at the hypothalamus to inhibit somatostatin secretion, would augment spontaneous or GHRH-stimulated serum GH levels in patients with GH-insufficiency. DESIGN Oral pyridostigmine 60 mg or placebo...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Kirk JM,Ross RJ,Trainer PJ,Froud AL,Davies SC,Savage MO,Besser GM

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prolactin (PRL) response to fenfluramine (FEN), a serotonin (5-HT) releasing agent, is used as an index of 5-HT sensitivity in studying disorders associated with central 5-HT abnormality. Plasma oestrogen levels are known to augment PRL responses to a variety of stimuli. In order to examine the effect that ovarian...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： O'Keane V,O'Hanlon M,Webb M,Dinan T

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasting plasma proinsulin, insulin and glucose concentrations were measured in ten women with mild gestational diabetes and ten controls matched for race, age (32 +/- 6 vs 31 +/- 6 years), body mass index (28 +/- 8 vs 27 +/- 6) and gestational week (24 +/- 4 vs 25 +/- 4 weeks). There was no significant difference in f...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Dornhorst A,Davies M,Anyaoku V,Hampton SM,Elkeles RS,Beard RW,Johnston DG

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies to thyroid peroxidase (TPO), the thyroid 'microsomal' antigen, are widely utilized in the diagnosis of human autoimmune thyroid disease. Crude human thyroid preparations of TPO are of differing potency, contain residual thyroglobulin (Tg) and other human membrane antigens, and are available in only limi...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Kendler DL,Martin A,Magnusson RP,Davies TF

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate simultaneously in thyrotoxic subjects the relative contributions of insulin secretion, insulin-sensitivity (SI) and glucose-mediated (SG) glucose disposal to overall glucose tolerance, seven non-obese patients with thyrotoxicosis were studied by the minimal model analysis of the frequently sampled...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pestell R,Alford F,Ramos R,Sawyer S,Best J,Ward G

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six normal adult males were given clonidine and GHRH either separately, or in combination, in random order. The peak serum GH concentrations elicited by clonidine or GHRH were variable but one factor influencing the GH response to GHRH was the GH secretory status in the hour prior to the administration of the GHRH. Pe...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Suri D,Hindmarsh PC,Brain CE,Pringle PJ,Brook CG

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity may be characterized by abnormal sex steroid secretion and reduced sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) which in turn is related to fat distribution and insulin secretion. Recent in-vitro and in-vivo evidence suggests that insulin is the common mechanism regulating the secretion of SHBG and insulin-like growth ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Weaver JU,Holly JM,Kopelman PG,Noonan K,Giadom CG,White N,Virdee S,Wass JA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperthyroidism is a well recognized complication of gestational trophoblastic tumours (GTT) and may be due to high circulating concentrations of human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) or its variants. We have studied 24 clinically euthyroid women with GTT. Eight were biochemically hyperthyroid with low or undetectable s...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Kennedy RL,Sheridan E,Darne J,Griffiths H,Davies R,Price A,Cohn M

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied the inositol phospholipid turnover response to thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH) gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) in five corticotroph and six somatotroph pituitary adenomas. GnRH (100 nM) increased inositol phospholipid turnover in five of five somatotroph adeno...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Levy A,Lightman SL,Hoyland J,Mason WT

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the role of endogenous opioid peptides in the release of oxytocin (OT) in response to breast feeding and breast stimulation in humans. Five breast feeding women were studied on two separate occasions within 4 weeks of delivery. Saline or naloxone, 4 mg bolus and 6 mg/h, was administered intravenou...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Johnson MR,Andrews MA,Seckl JR,Lightman SL

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients (seven women, three men) with active acromegaly, five previously treated and five newly diagnosed, were included in an open-label prospective trial of 3 daily subcutaneous injections of the long-acting somatostatin analogue SMS 201-995 (Sandostatin) at increasing doses in order to obtain maximum growth ho...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Shi YF,Harris AG,Zhu XF,Deng JY

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A late rise in serum GH occurs 3-5 h following oral glucose in man. In order to investigate the mechanisms through which this occurs we have studied the late GH rise after oral glucose during administration of a supramaximal dose of GHRH. In eight normal subjects, oral glucose (100 g) greatly enhanced the GH responses...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Valcavi R,Zini M,Dieguez C,Portioli I,Scanlon MF

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single-dose study was performed to examine the pharmacokinetics of subcutaneous octreotide in acromegalic patients and to investigate the relationship between growth hormone and the elimination half-life of the drug. Fourteen acromegalic patients (six men and eight women; age range 35-59 years) who had previously re...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Nicholls J,Wynick D,Domin J,Sandler LM,Bloom SR

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three samples of follicular fluid (FF) were collected from 14 patients with the polycystic ovary (PCO) syndrome and matched for FF-volume with small follicles collected from subjects with normal ovaries. The median (range) FF concentration of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) in the group with PCO, 0.42 (0.13...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Eden JA,Jones J,Carter GD,Alaghband-Zadeh J

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of serum intact parathyroid hormone (PTH) (1-84) over a 24-h period has shown the existence of a circadian rhythm in normal males which is absent in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. The physiological significance of this observation is reflected in the presence of parallel changes in nephroge...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Logue FC,Fraser WD,Gallacher SJ,Cameron DA,O'Reilly DS,Beastall GH,Patel U,Boyle IT

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the circadian rhythm and the response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to ovine corticotrophin releasing hormone (oCRH) stimulation and dexamethasone suppression in 32 children with grade II-III marasmus. Children were studied prior to and after nutritional rehabilitation. Mean baseline plas...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Malozowski S,Muzzo S,Burrows R,Leiva L,Loriaux L,Chrousos G,Winterer J,Cassorla F

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To quantify the role of endogenous oestrogen activity in osteoporosis we measured relative metacarpal cortical area (RCA), body mass, serum oestrone, oestradiol, androstenedione, and sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) in 746 postmenopausal women aged 53 to 76 years, sampled from the general population. The occurrence...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： van Hemert AM,Birkenhäger JC,De Jong FH,Vandenbroucke JP,Valkenburg HA

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility that oleic acid is the thyroxine binding inhibitor in the serum of seriously ill patients was investigated. 3H-Oleic acid was shown to bind directly to human thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) by the techniques of one and two-dimensional immunoelectrophoresis in combination with autoradiography. However,...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Haynes IG,Lockett SJ,Farmer MJ,Fitch NJ,Bradwell AR,Sheppard MC,Ramsden DB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sensitive enzyme amplified immunoassay for TSH, the evening rise and pulsatile release of TSH were studied in 10 men with chronic renal failure treated by haemodialysis. Compared to euthyroid male controls the evening rise of TSH was attenuated (median 0.066 vs 0.195 mU/l/h, P less than 0.01) and the rate of r...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Wheatley T,Clark PM,Clark JD,Holder R,Raggatt PR,Evans DB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In-vitro data of pituitary adenoma cells from 28 acromegalic patients were evaluated. In addition to GH, PRL was produced by 16 adenomas (57%) and alpha-subunit by 15 adenomas (54%) while there was a significantly higher incidence of tumours producing PRL and alpha-subunit simultaneously. From 26 pituitary adenomas en...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Hofland LJ,van Koetsveld PM,Verleun TM,Lamberts SW

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine acromegalic patients were treated by the somatostatin analogue SMS 201-995 octreotide (Sandostatin (octreotide), Sandoz, Basle, Switzerland] 250 micrograms/day in 4 divided s.c. injections (50 + 50 + 50 + 100 micrograms) for 1 month, 250 micrograms/24 has continuous s.c. infusions for another month and thereafter...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Thuesen L,Christensen SE,Weeke J,Orskov H,Henningsen P

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that abnormalities of thirst and vasopressin secretion commonly coexist with Kallmann's syndrome. Out-patient plasma osmolality, plasma sodium and 24-hour urine volume were similar in 10 patients with Kallmann's syndrome and 10 matched controls. Six patients underwent dynamic testing of osmoregul...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Thompson CJ,White MC,Baylis PH

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the possible influence of GABAergic neurotransmission on the arginine vasopressin (AVP) response to osmotic and pressure volumetric stimuli, the GABAergic drug sodium valproate was administered by mouth (200 or 400 mg 16 h, 8 h and just before tests) to eight normal men before osmotic (i.v. infusi...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Chiodera P,Gnudi A,Volpi R,Marchesi C,Marchesi M,Davoli D,Capretti L,Coiro V

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics, safety and endocrine effects of an authentic human growth hormone (bio-hGH), produced by the expression of genomic hGH in a mammalian cell line, were studied in six healthy young men who were administered 0.2 U/kg/day subcutaneously for five consecutive days. Changes in sodium balance and in thyr...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ho KY,Weissberger AJ,Stuart MC,Day RO,Lazarus L

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is a highly basic 28 amino-acid peptide which was first isolated from porcine small intestine (Said & Mutt, 1970). It is related to several other peptides including PHI (peptide with N-terminal histidine and C-terminal isoleucine amide), secretin, glucagon, and has some sequences si...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Prysor-Jones RA,Jenkins JS

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of clomiphene citrate on the occurrence and timing of the endogenous LH surge in superovulated cycles is unclear. To study further this event, five normally ovulating women were treated with clomiphene citrate 100 mg per day in two different cycles, that is, for 5 days in one cycle (days 2 to 6, CC-5) and f...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Messinis IE,Templeton A

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of XY pure gonadal dysgenesis was established in a patient of female phenotype, with female internal genitalia, but with a chromosomal constitution of 46 XY. Streak gonads had undergone neoplastic transformation--gonadoblastoma and dysgerminoma. Before operation the concentrations of gonadotrophins in plasma...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Wilson SC,Oakey RE,Scott JS

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test whether the administration of sodium fluoride in vivo results in an increase in osteocalcin concentration, we administered sodium fluoride to seven healthy male subjects for a period of 3 weeks. Fasting calcium, phosphate, alkaline phosphatase, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, parathyroid hormone and osteocalcin were meas...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Dandona P,Coumar A,Gill DS,Bell J,Thomas M

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of plasma adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH), cortisol, growth hormone (GH) and prolactin to insulin-induced hypoglycaemia were studied in six lean male subjects (age 22-29 years). Intravenous insulin tests were performed with and without oxytocin infusion. Blood sugar nadir occurred at the onset of symptoms (t...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Nussey SS,Page SR,Ang VT,Jenkins JS,White A

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four hyperprolactinaemic women were treated for 6 months with the new, non-ergot, long-acting dopamine agonist, CV 205-502. The treatment resulted in normalization of PRL secretion in 17 of the 24 women at once-daily doses of 0.05 to 0.15 mg of the drug. Sixteen of these women as well as 4 of those who remained...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Rasmussen C,Bergh T,Wide L,Brownell J

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of brain catecholamine (CA) activity in the neuroendocrine regulation of the GnRH-LH system in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCO) was investigated by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with electrochemical detector. We measured urinary dopamine (DA), noradrenaline (NA), adrenaline (A), vanillylmandeli...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Paradisi R,Grossi G,Venturoli S,Capelli M,Porcu E,Fabbri R,Pasquali R,Flamigni C

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocrine studies, using the four hypothalamic releasing hormones, gonadotrophin releasing hormone, thyrotrophin releasing hormone, corticotrophin releasing hormone and growth hormone releasing hormone, were performed in 33 males after admission with a major head injury. The test was repeated 7 days later in all 33 pa...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Clark JD,Raggatt PR,Edwards OM

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty women, who had been randomly selected from women with subclinical hypothyroidism identified in a population study were treated with L-thyroxine and placebo in a double-blind cross-over design during 2 x 6 months. Three women did not complete the study, one because she moved to another part of the country, and t...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Nyström E,Caidahl K,Fager G,Wikkelsö C,Lundberg PA,Lindstedt G

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two female patients with functioning adrenocortical carcinomas had plasma ACTH detectable by RIA at presentation. In both patients there was evidence for biological activity of ACTH. There was no evidence for an ectopic source of ACTH, nor for a pituitary tumour. Urinary steroid analysis showed patterns of multiple ho...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Law A,Hague WM,Daly JG,Honour JW,Taylor N,Jeffcoate SL,Himsworth RL,Joplin GF

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osmoregulation of vasopressin release and thirst was studied in the mid-follicular and mid-luteal phases of the menstrual cycle of five patients with cyclical oedema defined by peripheral oedema and weight gain (greater than 3.0 kg) manifest in two consecutive luteal phases. Results are compared to those already obtai...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Thompson CJ,Burd JM,Baylis PH

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the mechanisms by which arginine and L-dopa cause GH release in humans we measured the GH response to GHRH 1-44 (200 micrograms i.v.), arginine (30 g i.v. over 30 min) and L-dopa (500 mg orally) administered alone and 120 minutes following pretreatment with GHRH 1-44 (200 micrograms i.v.) in no...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Page MD,Dieguez C,Valcavi R,Edwards C,Hall R,Scanlon MF

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have studied three patients (1M, 2F), age range 10.9 to 15.5 years, who had abnormal sexual maturation secondary to primary hypothyroidism. The boy had inappropriately large testes for his stage of puberty, the girls had isolated breast development and there was absence of pubertal growth acceleration. FSH, LH, TSH...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pringle PJ,Stanhope R,Hindmarsh P,Brook CG

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00