Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Diabetes mellitus is the commonest endocrinopathy, Worldwide. Inspite of its commonality, the genetic basis of etiopathogenesis and pathophysiology are ever evolving and enigmatic. Amongst the protean genetic variations, cubulin gene and megalin gene mutations in diabetes are important in dictating genotype—phenotypic correlations and natural clinical course of diabetes. The genetic studies in this area are especially very sparse from Indian sub-continent. In...

Background: Preeclampsia (PE) continues tochallenge both the clinicians and researchers worldwide, as the existing knowledge on its etiopathology does not come up with an efficient and foolproof treatment regime due its progressive nature and uncertain diagnosis and prognosis. In this context, miRNAs represent a potential therapeutic target and a diagnostic tool.Objectives: Circulating microRNAs present in maternal blood play an important role in the eti...

Objective: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is themalignantcancer with altered microRNA (miR) changes. miR149-5p and miR-548c-3p participates in multiple processes of tumor development, progression, tumor suppression. Whereas miR-3619-3p plays role to promote cell migration and invasion in PTC. However, the role of miR149, miR-548c-3p, and miR-3619-3p in PTC and the underlying mechanisms remain undefined. Therefore, the present study is aimed to quantify therelative expressio...

Background: Preeclampsia (PE) is a multifactorial and multisystem disorder, with unknown pathophysiology, but factors such as defective trophoblast invasion and narrowing of spiral arteries may be contributing to the onset of PE and affecting mother and foetus development. Early prediction of PE may improve the surveillance and prognosis of hypertension in pregnant women in preventing associated complications. Therefore, it is essential to find markers for the detection of PE ...

Introduction: Poorly differentiated thyroid cancer (PDC) is a relatively rare form of differentiated thyroid caner with intermediate prognosis between well differentiated (WDTC) and anaplastic cancers (ATC). But, this finding is debatable in literature. Genomics is the one of definitive modalities to resolve this conundrum. ATC tends to express P53 and KMT2D mutations frequently, while WDTC have no such mutations. Similar studies are scanty in PDC. In this context, we set out ...

Introduction: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequent endocrine malignancy. Apart from genetics, autoimmunity has been implicated in its pathogenesis. In this context, we set out study the role of Pro- inflammatory cytokines in PTC in South Indian population.Material and methods: This prospective case-control study was conducted on surgically managed PTC patients. Institutional ethical committee approval was obtained. Diagnosis of PTC was ...

Introduction: Thyroidectomy can performed by open or wide array of endoscopic techniques. Lack of uniform consensus on specific indications for each technique leads to confusion on ideal thyroidectomy technique. In this context, we analysed our experience with specific emphasis on deducing an algorithm on ideal technique for a given patient. Material and methods: This is a retrospective study conducted at a tertiary care endocrine surgery department in S...

Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the commonest endocrinopathy, Worldwide. Amongst the protean complex genetic variations, cubulin gene and megalin gene mutations in diabetes are important in dictating genotype-phenotypic correlations and natural clinical course of diabetes. The genetic studies in this area are especially very sparse from Indian sub-continent. In this context, we analyzed the prevalence of cubulin (CBN) and megalin (LRP2) gene mutations, as part of NGS (Ne...

Background: Follicular differentiated thyroid cancer (FDTC) is the most common endocrine cancer, globally. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) in thyroid cancer allows for high-throughput genetic sequencing in short time. This analysis offers useful information on tumor biology. NGS Studies on follicular differentiated thyroid cancer are scanty from South East Asia. In this context, we set out study the pattern of a genetic panel wide somatic mutations in thyroid cancer.<p cl...

Background: Endocrine system (ES) is unique amongst all organ systems (OS) in human body. ES is a conglomeration of different endocrine organs. So far, the only models of proof o fintegrity within ES are APUD cell concept; HPA axis; HPG axis; biochemical pathways of hormones. But, the flaws in the above models are their presumptive and extrapolative nature. We wanted to test a model that every endocrine disease has collateral effect on other endocrine organs. We took nontoxic ...