Endocrine Abstracts

Context: Vitamin D deficiency following malabsorptive bariatric surgery can lead to osteomalacia. We report a patient with severe vitamin D deficiency following malabsorptive bariatric surgery successfully treated with calcifediol but not cholecalciferol.Case description: A 40-year-old woman, submitted to biliopancreatic diversion 20 years before and chronically treated with 50 000 IU cholecalciferol weekly, was admitted to our Endocrine Unit because of ...

Exon 1 of the androgen receptor (AR) gene contains a variable number of CAG triplets, (CAGr)n which encode a polyglutamine stretch of variable length in the N-terminal domain of the receptor. Experimental evidence has accumulated in demonstrating that the length of this stretch influences the transcriptional activity induced by the AR and therefore modulates target organs responsiveness to androgens.The (CAGr)n is inversely associated with the transcript...