Endocrine Abstracts

Sao Paulo is the most populous city in Brazil and its huge number of vehicles contributes for a higher concentration of air pollutants that may interfere in human fertility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of air pollution of vehicular origin on hormonal and seminal parameters of traffic controllers. Clinical history, physical examination (testicular volume, presence of varicocele, cryptorchidism, malformations), hormonal (estradiol, LH, FSH and total testo...

BackgroundIn the 2002 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) a number of patients presented abnormalities in the thyroid functioning, neuroendocrine and calcium homeostasis. It was detected in autopsies from SARS Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) patients that the thyroid gland was significantly affected by the disease, with extensive injury and death of follicular and parafollicular cells. In the present SARS-CoV-2 pandemic some studies start to repo...