Endocrine Abstracts

A 56 year old female presents with the rare association of primary hyperaldosteronism with primary hyperparathyroidism and prolactinoma. The association of primary hyperaldosteronism and other endocrinopathies has only rarely been reported. There have been three case reports meeting diagnostic criteria for MEN 1 with aldosterone secreting adrenal adenomas. In all three the other endocrinopathies were pituitary adenomas and hyperparathyroidism.The case p...

Novel object discrimination is a widely used ethologically relevant working memory task. However, there is little information regarding gender differences in performance of this test. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of male and female rats in this task following increasing intertrial intervals.Subjects were 24 female and 24 male adult hooded-Lister rats (250±10 g) group housed under standard laboratory conditions. Testing consis...