Endocrine Abstracts

In women, gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) is secreted from the hypothalamus and conveyed via the portal vasculature to the anterior pituitary gland every 60-90 minutes. This binds GnRH receptor and triggers pulsatile release of gonadotrophin hormones, Follicle stimulating and Luteinising hormone (FSH and LH), which stimulate and regulate folliculogenesis. The interdependence of these events accounts for the high number of cycling disorders in women, and the origin of the...

BackgroundIt has been shown that diets high in cis-MUFA and high-antioxidant diets are beneficial in type 2 diabetes (Garg 1998; Ros 2003; Franz et al. 2002). The aim of our study was to assess compliance with current dietary recommendations (Diabetes UK 2003) with particular emphasis on these nutrients.MethodsEthical approval was obtained to use a food diary and lifestyle questionnaire. 120 Cau...

The pattern of food consumption has a profound influence on metabolic hormone secretion, but until recently only crude manipulations of feeding events have been possible in rodents. Using a CLAMS-based system to overcome this problem, we have investigated the effect of 3 weeks of grazing (consumption of 1/24th of the total daily food intake of ad libitum-fed controls every 30 min during the dark phase (18.00–06.00 h)) and meal feeding (three 1-h periods of ad...