Endocrine Abstracts

Background: This study was designed to investigate prorenin and secreted frizzled-related protein-4 (SFRP-4) levels in pregnancies with or without gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).Materials and methods: A total of 76 pregnant women were included in the study. Thirty-five of the pregnant women were included in the GDM group according to the results of oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTT) and 41 pregnant women were included in the control group.<p cl...

Androgenic alopecia (AGA) is an important clinical issue that can cause significant cosmetic problems. Many factors such as genetic, androgen hormones, environmental factors, and inflammation are involved in the pathogenesis of androgenic alopecia. Insulin and insulin resistance have been found increased in individuals with AGA. There are many proinflammatory substances which are playing role in the pathogenesis of androgenic alopecia. Secreted frizzled related protein-4 (SFRP...

Macro TSH is a large molecular-sized thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) that is including TSH and anti-TSH antibody. Patients with macro TSH have elevated serum TSH and normal free thyroxine levels similar to subclinical hypothyroidism. A 18-year old female patient was referred from gynecology and obstetrics to endocrinology clinic for evaluating of elevated TSH with normal free thyroxine levels. Laboratory and clinical investigations revealed that only discordant TSH levels (n...

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...