abstract：:Bilateral, selective and simultaneous catheterization of the inferior petrosal sinus with measurements of ACTH after stimulation with ovine corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) is now frequently used to establish the differential diagnosis in patients with Cushing's disease and to determine the side of the microadeno...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Schulte HM,Allolio B,Günther RW,Benker G,Winkelmann W,Ohnhaus EE,Reinwein D

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that oxytocin (OXT) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) are involved in the response to stress. We have examined the changes in peripheral plasma OXT during abdominal surgery in eight patients (six males, two female; ages 60-82 years) undergoing hemicolectomy and compared the results with those for...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

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

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30 year old woman presenting with infertility was found to have elevated serum immunoreactive prolactin, TSH and total T3. These findings were eventually attributed to assay artifact when she was shown to have anti-rabbit antibodies in her serum. The possibility of laboratory artifact should be considered in clinica...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Jeffcoate WJ,Selby C,Powell RJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:delta 5 and delta 4 steroid levels were studied in the plasma and cyst fluid of women with gross cystic breast disease (GCBD). In luteal phase a significant increase in plasma levels (mean +/- SEM) of DHA (11.2 +/- 2.4 ng/ml), DHAS (1.45 +/- 0.6 micrograms/ml) and cortisol 277 +/- 15.7 ng/ml) was found; in follicular ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Inaudi P,Bernabei A,Gioffré W,Franchi F,Mazzullo G,De Leo V,D'Antona N

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration of immunoreactive inhibin in serum was measured in three pregnant women with premature ovarian failure involved in a donor oocyte in-vitro fertilization programme. Inhibin was not detectable in peripheral serum prior to conception but rose within 2-4 weeks of embryo transfer, whereafter levels rose g...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： McLachlan RI,Healy DL,Lutjen PJ,Findlay JK,De Kretser M,Burger HG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep history and pituitary function were studied and sleep polygraphy performed in 11 acromegalic patients before and after pituitary surgery. Excessive daytime sleepiness or habitual snoring or both together, as well as an elevated fasting level of serum GH occurred in all the patients. In five men but in none of th...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pekkarinen T,Partinen M,Pelkonen R,Iivanainen M

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anorexia nervosa is associated with several abnormalities in GH secretion elicited by different stimuli. To investigate the precise mechanism of this alteration, GHRH was administered to 14 women: a group of eight anorexia nervosa patients in the acute phase of their illness and a control group of six age-matched volu...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Casanueva FF,Borras CG,Burguera B,Lima L,Muruais C,Tresguerres JA,Devesa J

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A young man is reported with an autoimmune polyglandular syndrome (APS) characterized by Addison's disease, primary hypothyroidism, primary hypogonadism, vitiligo, associated with primary empty sella and partial impairment of pituitary hormone secretion. Two years later the patient showed a null cell type acute lympho...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： De Rosa G,Della Casa S,Corsello SM,Cecchini L,Callà C

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is a circadian rhythm in blood melatonin concentrations in humans, the problems associated with frequent blood collection limit the use of this rhythm in the investigation of the circadian system and in the diagnosis and treatment of chronobiological disorders. Therefore, to establish a convenient, non-...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Nowak R,McMillen IC,Redman J,Short RV

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunochemiluminometric assay has been developed for the measurement of free T4 concentrations in serum. The assay uses chemiluminescent acridinium ester labelled monoclonal antibodies which react with free T4 in the sample. A T4-rabbit immunoglobulin G conjugate competes for antibody binding sites, immune-complexe...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Sturgess ML,Weeks I,Evans PJ,Mpoko CN,Laing I,Woodhead JS

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipase C activity was measured in human endometrium using an assay based on the release of total labelled water soluble products (inositol, inositol phosphates) from L-3-phosphatidyl-[2-3H] inositol. The enzyme was shown to be calcium dependent and to have an optimum pH of 5.5. There was no difference between p...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Bonney RC,Franks S

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of oral glucose (40 g/m2 body surface area) on the leucocyte 22Na efflux rate constants (ERC) was studied in 13 normal weight and 10 obese subjects. The ouabain-sensitive 22Na ERC was higher in leucocytes isolated from fasting obese subjects (median [range] for obese 2.77 [2.33-3.11] vs normals 1.91 [1.57-2...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ng LL,Hockaday TD

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oestrogens are known to enhance both basal and stimulated GH secretion. To examine whether this effect is mediated through the hypothalamus or the pituitary we performed insulin tolerance and GH-releasing hormone (GHRH) tests with and without oestrogen priming in a group of 14 short children. Pretreatment with stilboe...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ross RJ,Grossman A,Davies PS,Savage MO,Besser GM

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cushing's syndrome in pregnancy is rare but associated with a high fetal loss rate, premature labour and excessive maternal morbidity. There has been controversy regarding the safety and efficacy of surgical treatment during pregnancy. We describe two further cases, both due to adrenal adenomas, in whom the diagnosis ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Bevan JS,Gough MH,Gillmer MD,Burke CW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in-vivo reaction of the plasma GH concentration to the administration of the somatostatin analogue SMS 201-995, bromocriptine and their combination were compared with the in-vitro effects of both compounds and their combination on GH release and the GH tumour cell content of 9 acromegalic patients. Exposure of cul...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Lamberts SW,Verleun T,Hofland L,Del Pozo E

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of glucocorticoid excess on insulin disappearance from plasma was examined in eight normal men during cortisone treatment (50 mg orally twice daily for 4 d) and in the absence of any medication (control) in random order. Constant infusion of insulin (1-5 mU/kg/min) was used to achieve different levels of st...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ellemann K,Thorsteinsson B,Fugleberg S,Feldt-Rasmussen B,Andersen OO,Grønbaek P,Binder C

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uterine cross-sectional area (UXA) of women with polycystic (PCO) or multifollicular ovaries (MFO) is significantly larger and smaller, respectively, than those of normal women during the early-mid-follicular phase of the menstrual cycle. In the present study the distribution of oestradiol in plasma from normal wo...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Polson DW,Franks S,Reed MJ,Cheng RW,Adams J,James VH

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A personal series of 256 cases of acromegaly/gigantism seen over a 20-year period from 1963 is described. The insidious nature of the condition resulted in delay in diagnosis which was often made by a doctor when seeing the patient for an unrelated problem. Other features which commonly led to the diagnosis being made...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Nabarro JD

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is evidence that the porcine TSH receptor contains essential disulphide bridge(s) which can be disrupted by dithiothreitol (DTT). The aim of the present study was to determine whether exposure of intact thyroid cells to DTT leads to altered thyroid stimulation. TSH-stimulated iodine organification in cultured po...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ginsberg J,Rafter DJ,von Westarp C,Murray PG

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the acute effect of standard therapeutic doses of oral frusemide on indices of thyroid function in 34 hospital in-patients with congestive cardiac failure. A transient decrease in total T4, elevation in the T3 resin uptake and consequent increase in the free T4 index (FT4I) were seen 2-5 h after ingestion o...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Newnham HH,Hamblin PS,Long F,Lim CF,Topliss DJ,Stockigt JR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pretreatment with biosynthetic methionyl human GH (hGH) on the GH response to GHRH has been studied in normal subjects. Eight volunteers were given either 4 IU hGH or placebo s.c. 12-hourly for 72 h before a GHRH test, or a single s.c. dose of 4 IU hGH 12 h before a GHRH test. Somatomedin-C (Sm-C) levels...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Ross RJ,Borges F,Grossman A,Smith R,Ngahfoong L,Rees LH,Savage MO,Besser GM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate the effect of alpha-1 adrenoreceptor regulation of ACTH release during insulin-induced hypoglycaemia, we studied the response to hypoglycaemia with and without prazosin premedication in eight normal men. Prazosin pretreatment did not affect basal or peak plasma ACTH, cortisol or GH during hypoglyc...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Cuneo RC,Livesey JH,Nicholls MG,Espiner EA,Donald RA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of bromocriptine in the treatment of non-functioning pituitary tumours is not yet defined. Patients with these tumours who present with visual field defects usually undergo immediate surgery. Three consecutive patients are reported: each had rapid improvement in their visual field defects following bromocript...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： D'Emden MC,Harrison LC

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed a systematic study of patients with Cushing's disease to compare the results of acute experiments with cyproheptadine, sodium valproate and bromocriptine with the results of chronic treatment with sodium valproate. In 13 patients the plasma cortisol response to single doses of 2.5 mg bromocriptine, 6 mg cy...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Koppeschaar HP,Croughs RJ,Thijssen JH,Schwarz F

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a 40-year-old male with acromegaly, multiple and recurrent cutaneous myxomas, spotty cutaneous pigmentation, a mammary myxoma, a large-cell calcifying Sertoli cell tumour of the testis, and an unusual calcifying pigmented neuroectodermal tumour. He presented a combination of clinical and histological featu...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Leedman PJ,Cohen AK,Matz LR

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transdermal oestradiol, 100 micrograms/d, was used to treat 11 women suffering from postmenopausal symptoms. After 3 weeks therapy there was a significant rise in the plasma oestradiol into the premenopausal range and a significant fall in plasma FSH level and symptom score. Bone resorption, assessed by urinary excret...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Selby PL,Peacock M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of the thyroid disorder presented by patients with normal T4 and T3 but blunted TSH response to TRH has not been clarified. In this study, we compared thyroid function tests in 16 such patients with those of 14 controls and 10 hyperthyroid patients. Basal total T4, free T4, total T3, iodine uptake and chole...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Boutin JM,Matte R,D'Amour P,Gilbert F,Havrankova J,Bélanger R,Chartrand R,Zakarija M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alopecia is a frequent feature in hereditary resistance to (1,25(OH)2D). We sought insight into this feature by analysing data from affected members of 30 kindreds. We assessed indices of mineral metabolism in one group with normal hair compared with a group with alopecia. Hereditary resistance to 1,25(OH)2D was diagn...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Marx SJ,Bliziotes MM,Nanes M

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum concentrations of total and free T4 (TT4 and FT4), total and free T3 (TT3 and FT3), rT3, T4 binding globulin (TBG), T3 uptake (T3U) and TSH were measured in 12 patients with severe hypothyroidism before and during the introduction of replacement therapy with oral T4. The dose of T4 was increased by increments of...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Pearce CJ,Himsworth RL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 44 patients with acromegaly treated by transsphenoidal pituitary microsurgery, the relationship between changes in pre- and post-operative GH dynamics and postoperative fasting plasma GH levels was examined to clarify which is the optimal approach for evaluating postoperative removal of the tumour. TRH, LHRH and br...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Karashima T,Kato K,Nawata H,Ikuyama S,Ibayashi H,Nakagaki H,Kitamura K

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human population which lives and works in polar environments has been increasing steadily over the last 15 years. Very little is known about how these residents adjust to their environment. Cold adaptation in man is a poorly understood phenomenon. Euthermic mammals maintain body temperature during cold exposure vi...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Reed HL,Burman KD,Shakir KM,O'Brian JT

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical features, diagnosis and management of 16 consecutive patients with ectopic ACTH production are described and biochemical data are compared with those of 48 consecutive patients with pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease. In 10 cases the ectopic ACTH secreting tumour was completely occult to routine clinic...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Howlett TA,Drury PL,Perry L,Doniach I,Rees LH,Besser GM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological response, as measured in the cytochemical bioassay, to the high circulating levels of immunoreactive parathyroid hormone (iPTH) in patients with pseudohypoparathyroidism type I (PSPI) is affected by the presence of an endogenous inhibitor. This is evidenced by the reduced recovery of the biological acti...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Loveridge N,Fischer JA,Devogelaer JP,Nagant de Deuxchaisnes C

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum prolactin concentrations were measured in nine untreated hypothyroid infants and 23 euthyroid controls. In the former group the serum prolactin concentrations were tenfold higher than the controls (352 vs 34 micrograms/l), declining gradually upon treatment. Although serum prolactin concentrations can be mildly ...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： McCormick KL

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new radioreceptor assay for insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II), using receptors on ovine placental membranes, is described. Half-maximal displacement of specifically bound radioiodinated human IGF-II tracer was seen at 1.0 ng/tube of unlabelled IGF-II. The cross-reactivity of IGF-I was 1%, and insulin was entire...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Baxter RC,de Mellow JS

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported an impaired growth hormone (GH) response to a single i.v. bolus dose of growth hormone releasing factor (1 microgram/kg body weight) in obese women. We have now investigated whether the i.v. administration of low dose GHRF(1-29)NH2 (0.33 microgram/kg/h) by 15 min pulsed injections for 3 h fol...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Kopelman PG,Noonan K

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an 8-year follow-up of three sisters born of a consanguineous marriage and who originally presented with short stature and enlarged pituitary fossa. All have shown progressive failure of anterior pituitary hormone function. In addition, the two eldest sisters were eventually found to have an empty sella whil...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： White MC,Chahal P,Banks L,Joplin GF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A radioimmunoassay (RIA) procedure was devised for the estimation of PRL in eluates of dried whole blood from filter paper. Levels of PRL were measured in newborn blood obtained during the first week of life from 530 infants of normal birthweight (greater than 2500 g) with normal T4 values, 114 infants of normal birth...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Mitchell ML,Hermos RJ,Bennett JE,McKenna JJ,Mitchell EL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the endocrine requirements for induction of follicle maturation, ovulation and luteal function we have measured plasma LH and FSH concentrations in 109 cycles induced by treatment with LHRH in 25 women with amenorrhoea of diverse aetiology. The major clinical and endocrine subgroupings were pol...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Abdulwahid NA,Adams J,van der Spuy ZM,Jacobs HS

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human liver contains components in both cytosol and nucleosol which bind the synthetic testosterone derivative, mibolerone, with a high affinity, moderate capacity and a high specificity for androgens. Gel filtration chromatography shows two binding components, a high molecular weight component (mol wt. 250 000) prese...

journal_title：Clinical endocrinology

authors： Bannister P,Sheridan P,Losowsky MS

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00