Endocrine Abstracts

Background: It is well-known that growth hormone (GH) potently stimulates collagen turnover and it is associated with fibrosis in several tissues, but the mechanisms involved in GH-stimulated fibrosis are poorly elucidated. Fibroblast activation protein-α (FAPα) is an enzyme that can cleave collagens and is expressed almost only under pathological conditions such as fibrosis. FAPα also cleaves and inactivates fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), which is a circu...

Background: GH potently stimulates collagen turnover which underlies its anabolic effects on bone in children, whereas it may promote fibrosis in adults. Fibroblast activation protein-α (FAPα) is involved in collagen turnover by its collagen-cleaving and fibroblast-stimulating activity, which predominantly is expressed in association with fibrosis. FAPα also cleaves and inactivates fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), a multi-faceted metabolic hormone. We have p...

Background: Dumping syndrome in infants who have undergone gastrostomy or Nissens fundoplication is a recognised phenomenon. The pathogenesis is possibly due to a bolus feed causing an incretin effect and leading to hyperinsulinaemic hypoglycaemia. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems have not been used in the past to study this phenomenon. We report CGM findings which are almost identical on three such post surgical infants.Case series 1: a 36-we...

Bispenol A (BPA) is a chemical often integrated in impact-resistant plastics and surface coatings in canned foods as well as screw-on caps and cashier receipts. BPA is either intentionally added or appear as a consequence of recycling in materials with food contact, which leaves consumers at risk of exposure. BPA has known endocrine disrupting effects and is suspected to be a contributing factor in disorders such as overweight, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and behavioral...

Introduction: Subclinical hypothyroidism (subhypo) is linked to gestational hypertension (gestHT) and preeclampsia. Thyroid hormones have major influence on mitochondrial activity and the mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) reflects the functional status of the mitochondria.Aim: The aim was to estimate whether mitochondrial function is impaired in pregnant women with or without gestHT.Methods: We included third trimester pregnan...

Background: Subclinical hypothyroidism is associated with a number of cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diastolic dysfunction, but only limited data exist on long-term outcome of levothyroxine substitution therapy.Objectives: To examine effects of levothyroxine substitution treatment on mortality in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism.Study design: Historical cohort study.<p class=...

Introduction: Patients who do not develop overt hypothyroidism after hemithyroidectomy for benign euthyroid goiter have permanently increased serum levels of TSH and decreased levels of thyroid hormones within the reference ranges. Thyroid hormones are major regulators of mitochondrial function, and the mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) can be measured by flow cytometry analysis of living cells as the fluorescence intensity of stained peripheral mononuclear blood cells (M...

There is accumulating epidemiological evidence that a physically active life plays an independent role in the protection against type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, dementia and even depression. For most of the last century, researchers sought a link between muscle contraction and humoral changes in the form of an ‘exercise factor', which could be released from skeletal muscle during contraction and mediate some of the exercise-induced metabolic changes in o...

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Decades of clinical experience and research in human and non-human primates demonstrate that maternal care received early in life strongly influences the development of parenting and other social skills as well as resiliency in the face of stress. Analogous intergenerational effects of maternal nurturing have recently been reported in rats. Adult stress responses (anxiety and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation) are inversely related to the amount of maternal lickin...