Endocrine Abstracts

In patients with primary aldosteronism (PA), adrenal vein sampling (AVS) is considered the gold standard to distinguish between unilateral and bilateral disease, while diagnostic imaging tests (CT/MRI) are often inconclusive for the diagnosis of PA. To date agreement is lacking on the best criteria indicating successful cannulation and lateralization. Aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of different diagnostic criteria for the successful cannulation and lateralization ...

Adrenocortical tumors (ACT) include benign and malignant tumors. Adrenocortical carcinomas (ACC) are highly malignant neoplasms with a poor prognosis, but their genetic alterations to date identified are limited. Laboratory studies on ACT have revealed a wide variety of signaling pathways involved in these tumors, among these Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway and Ras/Raf/MEK/ERK pathway resulted often disregulated. Another important factor in many signaling pathways is the ...

Ouabain is a cardiotonic steroid belonging to Strophanthus species. Recently its role in the treatment of tumors has been investigated, as ouabain seems to exert antiproliferative effects. Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare cancer, with poor prognosis, of which SW13 and H295R cells could be considered a cellular model.Our aim was to evaluate if ouabain exerts anticancer property.The effects of ouabain were assessed by MTT ass...