Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: There is some evidence that a rise in the androgen hormone levels increases the risk for the development of a cardiovascular disease, obtained from the studies conducted on women with polycystic ovary and on men with androgenic alopecia. Inflammatory substances tend to increase in polycystic ovary syndrome and in androgenic alopecia. On this basis, we conducted a study that aimed to evaluate the early cardiovascular and metabolic effects in male patients with and...

Background: Netrin-1 is an early biomarker of acute kidney injury. Besides, recent studies have showed that netrin-1 promotes angiogenesis; but its usefulness for peripheral artery disease (PAD) in type 2 diabetes patients is unknown.This study aimed at investigating whether netrin-1 levelsare increased in peripheral artery disease among patients with type 2 diabetes and also investigating possible associationsbetween diabetic nephropathy (DN) and PAD.Ma...

Aim: Thirty female Wistar albino rats with surgically endometriotic implants were randomly randomized into three treatment groups: oral rosuvastatin (20 mg kg per day; oral rosuvastatin group 1; n=10), oral progesterone (Dienogest group 2; n=10), and intraperitoneal bevacizumab (2.5 mg/kg of single intaperitoneal injection of bevacizumab; group 3; n=10) respectively, for 10 day and post-treatment variables were compared.Results...