Endocrine Abstracts

Nuclear receptors regulate biological responses by acting as ligand dependent transcription factors in target cells. Their ability to modulate transcription is mediated by cofactors which are recruited to target genes by binding to receptors. They can either act as coactivators or corepressors and their roles include their ability to remodel chromatin and to recruit the basic transcription machinery. NRIP1 is transcriptional repressor which is recruited to nuclear receptors in...

Interferon alpha (IFNα) and Ribavirin combination therapy effectively eradicates Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in up to 80% of patients. Transient thyroid dysfunction (TD) (>80% hypothyroidism) usually due to a destructive thyroiditis has been recognised to occur in up to 25% of patients treated in Italy, Japan and Australia. However, data are lacking in a UK cohort and no standardised protocol for testing of thyroid function testing exists. The aim of this study was to det...