Endocrine Abstracts

Aim: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to be associated with pituitary insufficiency (PI). We have recently shown that there was a relationship between miR-126-3p, miR-3610 and PI developing in follow up of patients with TBI. In this study, we aimed to test the effects of miR-126-3p on hypothalamus pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and Growth hormone-Insulin like growth factor (GH-IGF-1) axes.Materials and methods: miR126-3p microinjection was performed to mou...

AimGlucagon stimulation test (GST) is used to assess hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and GH axis with an incompletely defined mechanism. Glucagon has physiological effects on body weight and metabolic parameters and some of these effects are suggested to occur via fibroblast growth factor-21 (FGF-21) which is a circulating hepatokine. FGF-21 was also shown to affect HPA and GH axis in rodents. The aim of the present study was assess if glucagon acted...

Introduction: The pathogenesis of idiopathic hirsutism (IH) is not clear. On the other hand, human skin possesses all the enzymes necessary for androgen synthesis and catabolism indicating that it is an independent peripheral endocrine organ. Thus, in the present study we aimed to investigate the mRNA expression of aromatase enzyme and the other enzymes having functional roles in the steroidogenic pathway, in freshly obtained skin tissue from subumblical skin and the arm of wo...