Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: The aim of the study was to compare the clinical features in three age-groups of women with primary hyperparathyroidism.Methods: The data about biochemical profile and disease complications in women with active stage of disease (n=645) was collected from the Russian Primary Hyperparathyroidism Registry. Group 1 included women 20–49 years old (n=215) unless the patients with suspected or confirmed multiple endocrine neopl...

Stress is increasingly pervasive in modern society and an unavoidable stimulus to the human organism. Stressors, whether of social or physical type, activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, resulting in the upregulation of glucocorticoid levels and, in some cases, its de novo biosynthesis. Aside from HPA axis regulation, corticosteroids also modulate the immune response to inflammation and affect the whole-body metabolism. Accurate quantification of endogenous s...

Objectives: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequent malignant endocrine disease and the most common genetic cause of the PTC is the substitution c.1799T>A (p.V600E) in the BRAF gene (35-70% of PTC) that represents more than 95% of BRAF mutations. Other rare mutations in the BRAF gene include other substitutions (e.g. p.K601E), small deletions or insertions close to codon 600. The aim was to analyze a large cohort of thyroid nodules...