Endocrine Abstracts

Visfatin is one of adipokines that particularly regulates metabolic homeostasis. Literature data of the last decade indicate also that visfatin participates in the regulation of ovarian follicles’ steroid synthesis and oocyte maturation in women, mice, hens, and cows. However, there is still a gap in knowledge about the effect of this adipokine on the corpus luteum (CL) functions. Our previous study documented visfatin mRNA and protein expression in the porcine CL. Theref...

Background: Despite increased awareness among cardiologists about the risk of amiodarone’s significant side effects, it is still a commonly used antiarrhythmic drug. Amiodarone may induced easy for management hypothyroidism which affect even 25% of patients or less frequent thyrotoxicosis (AIT) which causes a challenge for clinicians. Type 1 of AIT occurs on the basis of pre-existing thyroid diseases such as nodular goiter or latent Graves’ disease, type 2 results fr...