Endocrine Abstracts

It is becoming increasingly evident that pathways exist within the (ER) that can impact upon cellular redox status, glucocorticoid metabolism and glucose homeostasis.Within the ER of the liver, glucose-6-phosphatase (G6Pase) and glucose 6-phosphate (G6P) transporter (G6PT) work together to increase blood glucose concentrations by performing the terminal step in both glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis. The G6Pase ‘shares’ G6P with hexose-6-phosp...

Background: Hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor foratherosclerosis (1,2). Elevated plasma total homocysteine(t-Hcy) levels havebeen described in primary hypothyroidism (3,4). Subclinical hypothyroidismhas also been found to be associated with atherosclerosis (5).Hypothyroidism decreases hepatic levels of enzymes involved in theremethylation pathway of homocysteine and renal excretion of t-Hcy (6,7).The present study evaluates t-Hcy in sub...