Endocrine Abstracts

Aims: Polyglandulare Autoimmune Sydnrome (PAS) is a rare disease and the development during pregnancy is seen even less often. PAS Type II presents with autoimmune adrenalitis and thyroiditis. Symptoms of adrenalitis such as hypotension and hyperpigmentation are overlapping with physiological manifestations during pregnancy making the diagnosis difficult.Clinical presentation: We are reporting the case of a 28-year old prima para prima gravida presenting...

Objectives: Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is a cardiac hormone that is known to play an essential role in regulation of blood pressure and vascular endothelial function. However, the metabolic regulation of ANP is not fully understood. In patients suffering from metabolic syndrome hypertension, hyperinsulinemia and postprandial hyperglucagonemia are common features. It was the aim of the present study to evaluate the impact of glucagon on proANP and the possible mechanisms ...

Background: Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) is a gastrointestinal hormone that is secreted in response to food intake. GIP acts on various tissues, including pancreatic ß-cells, via interaction with its G-protein-coupled receptor. Some studies in rodents suggested that GIP directly links overnutrition to obesity. GIP exerts a physiological role on lipid uptake into adipocytes.Objectives: To analyse the effect of GIP-Infusions on c...

Background: Glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) is a gastrointestinal hormone that is secreted in response to food intake and modulates β-cell function. Remarkably, GIP looses its insulinomimetic effect in the presence of chronic hyperglycaemia and thus appears to be ineffective in poorly controlled T2DM at least with regard to insulin release. The mechanism by which this occurs is not clear and it is not known.Objectives: To analyse ...

Aims: We investigate the influence of GIP on ghrelin secretion in normal glucose tolerant individuals with the use of the firstly applied correlation network analysis on human plasma metabolome data.Methods: To address this issue, we employed a GIP-infusion test and euglycemic- and hyperglycemic glucose clamp experiments combined with infusion of GIP or placebo in a cross-over manner in non diabetic obese male subjects (n=14). Moreover, we firstly...

Introduction: Insulin resistance (IR), a pathological state of low sensitivity to insulin in humans and animlas, is closely associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity and cardiovasculare dieseas. IR can be quantified using detailed protocols, such as the euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp (EC) technique and the intravenous glucose tolerance test, or based on indices derived from the oral glucose tolerance test. Although these indices showed greater association with the i...

Aims: Elevated levels of neurotensin (NT), a neurotransmitter and postprandial secreted intestinal hormone, are associated with an increased risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and breast cancer. Here we studied the regulation of circulating pro-NT (a stable NT precursor fragment) by weight loss and dietary interventions.Methods: DiOGenes is a pan-European controlled dietary intervention study in overweight adults who first lost body weight on an 8-...