Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Stress causes negative effects at all the body especially the heart. As a result of the damage of secreting various hormones which stress cause to secrete in the body. During the stress, respiration, tension, heart speed and catecholamine level increase. All these can be considered as a risk factor for the heart disease. In our study, we aimed to examine stress’ possible histopathological changes on heart muscle.Methods: Eight adult femal...

Objective: Stress, which is seen prevalently among people, causes a general situation of tension via damaging the balance of the body. During stress, it is known that, at the first, central systems, like nerve system, heart and blood circulation system, nutritive system, genital systems and adrenalin tissues are also affected. In this study, kidney was histopathologically examined on the rat model in order to investigate how and in what level the kidneys are affected from the ...

Objective: Placental lactogen (PL) produced by the placenta stimulates lipolysis and fatty acid metabolism in the mother. PL is an anti-insulin hormon. It adjusts the metabolic state of the mother during pregnancy to make easy the energy supply of the fetus. It also reduces maternal tissue sensitivity to insulin, leading to gestational diabetes. A moderate hypertriglyceridaemia due to uncontrolled diabetes may be noticeably worsen by the gestation. As a result, acute hypertrig...

Objective: Unexplained infertility is 15% among all infertility cases. Many forms of stress, including psychological and physical can effect male fertility and reproductive activity. In this study, we aimed to investigate possible histopathological effects of physical and psychological stress on rat testis at light microscopic level.Methods: Eight adult, male Sprague Dawley rats were used in this study. Rats were randomly divided as control (n=4) ...

Background: Acromegaly which is caused by excessive growth hormone is a rare chronicle endocrine disorder. Because it is a rare disorder, limited data are available on the impact and consequences of acromegaly on the mental health of patients, but the investigations are growing over time.Aim: It aims to summarize the evidence identifying the mental health issues of patients with acromegaly.Methods: MEDLINE (PubMed), Web of Science,...

Objective: Stress has been linked to several diseases. In the course of stress; blood sugar. cortisol and catecholamine levels increase. Visceral hypersensitivity will increase due to catecholaminergic discharges leading to an over-induction of the intrapancreatic secretion. A chronically stress has a role in the induction of insulin resistance in different tissues and pancreas begins to release excessive insulin causing burned out pancreas. For this reason, it becomes insulin...

Nodular Goiter Disease is very common, its prevalence varies between 26 and 67%. This rate is higher in iodine deficient regions. Recent data indicate that the incidence of both benign and malignant thyroid nodules is increasing. The most important factor in noduler guatr is iodine deficiency. The reported prevalence of nodular disease depends on which population is studied and the methods used to detect the nodules. There are other risk factors that lead to an increased incid...

BackgroundNeonatal diabetes mellitus is a rare form of monogenic diabetes which is diagnosed in the first six months of life. Eight patients with neonatal diabetes presenting to a single centre were studied for clinical presentation, genetics and treatment outcomes.Objective: Eight children (2 f/6m) presenting to a single centre in Turkey were studied for correlation of disease with clinical features and genetics, suitability of current ...

Background: Plasma carnitine insufficiency has been caused muscle weakness. Carnitine levels and pulmonary functions were lower in patients with diabetes.Objective: To determine whether pulmonary functions are correlated with carnitine levels in patients with type 2 diabetes.Setting: Internal medicine outpatient clinic of a university hospital.Methods: Forty-nine patients with type 2 diabetes and 34 healthy c...