Endocrine Abstracts

Background and aims: Multi-drug and toxin extrusion 1 (MATE1) and organic cation transporters 2 (OCT2) are important proteins of metformin transport and excretion in liver and kidney. Our previous study showed that there were gender difference of metformin’s hypoglycaemic effect and it was independently linked with the oestrogen and testosterone levels in type 2 diabetes patients. This study was designed to observe the impact of oestrogen and androgen on the renal express...

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), the most frequent thyroid cancer, has low proliferation but no apoptosis, presenting frequent lymph-node metastasis (Ordonez et al., 2004).SMAD3 has two opposite phosphorylation sites: the TGF-βRI–induced C-terminal Serine SMAD3 phosphorylation and the phosphorylation induced by CDK2 (T8, T179 and S213) and ERK (T179, S204, S208) (Wang et al. 2005, Matsuura et al. 2005).<p class=...