Endocrine Abstracts

Background: ACTH-independent Cushing syndrome (CS) accounts for 15–20% of endogenous CS. Approximately 10% of these patients have bilateral adrenal lesions where the differential diagnoses are primary bilateral adrenal macronodular hyperplasia (PBMAH), primary pigmented nodular adrenal disease (PPNAD), bilateral cortisol producing adenomas or a unilateral cortisol producing adenoma with a contralateral nonfunctioning adenoma. Also, the prevalence of subclinical CS is high...

Calcium is important for physiological functioning in many tissues and is essential in mucus secretion and muscle contraction. Intracellular concentrations of calcium are regulated by calcium-related proteins such as TRPV4, TRPV6, CaBP-9k, NCX1, and PMCA1. In this study, the relationship between secretion of pulmonary mucus and calcium regulation was investigated. To confirm the effect of steroid hormones, immature mice were injected with estrogen (E2) or progesterone (P4) and...

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrinal disorder afflicting women mainly during their childbearing age. The symptoms of PCOS are irregular menstrual cycles, weight gain, subfertility, and infertility. However, since the etiology is as yet unclear, the management and treatment are still not well established. Recently, natural substances have been used for PCOS therapy. Ecklonia cava is a well-known natural substance that attenuates inflammation, allergy and c...

Post-thyroidectomy syndrome is defined as postoperative problems after thyroidectomy without injury of recurrent laryngeal nerve, and including most common symptom such as vocal fatigue, loss of high-pitch, reduced vocal strength, reduced speaking fundamental frequency also can be presented. In a recent systemic review, F0, shimmer, and MPT was significantly deteriorated only in the early period and not in the late period after thyroidectomy. There have been several questionna...

Objectives: Attempts have been made to identify markers for aggressive disease in papillary microcarcinomas (PMCs), but genetic alterations identified in PMCs have failed to distinguish tumors with high-risk features. Thus, we aimed to identify candidate markers associated with lateral node metastasis (N1b) in patients with PMC through a transcriptomic analysis.Methods: Bulk RNA sequencing was performed in 26 matched tumor and normal thyroid tissue sampl...

Objective: Describe short- and long-term changes in BMD in adults exposed to varying intensities of systemic glucocorticoid (GC) treatment.MethodsSetting: Danish Public Health Service Hospital, catchment area 500,000 individuals.Data: BMD data from 2006-2021 and data on filled prescriptions.Analysis: All adult patients with at least two DXA e...

Journal of Endocrinology, 2021, 248(1): 75-86 (DOI: https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1530/JOE-20-0404)...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of individuals with spine–femur bone mineral density (BMD) discordance and to examine whether trabecular bone score (TBS) is associated with major and minor BMD discordance in postmenopausal women.Methods: This retrospective study included 533 healthy postmenopausal women (median age, 60 years; range, 55–82 years) who visited our hospital for a health check-up...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are multipotent stromal cells that can differentiate into various types of cells including chondrocytes, osteoblasts and adipocytes. Since these types of cells are simultaneously derived from the same precursor cell, adipogenesis and osteoblastogenesis are thought to be counter-related. It is well-known that chronic treatment of steroid can induce Cushing’s syndrome which has phenotypes like visceral adiposity and osteoporosis. Cell fate of d...

Background and aim: Low T3 syndrome is associated with a poor prognosis in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). It is controversial whether T3 treatment is indicated in CHF. A previous study using intravenous infusion of T3 for 72 h suggested a beneficial effect on cardiac performance.We aimed to evaluate the effect of 13 weeks of T3 treatment in patients with stable CHF on left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) compared to placebo.<p class=...