Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: The brain plays a major role in controlling the desire to eat. We performed a meta-analysis to assess the association of dopamine transporter (DAT)/dopamine receptor (DR) availabilities from neuroimaging studies with obesity.Methods: We performed a systematic search of MEDLINE and EMBASE for English-language publications. Data were extracted from the publications independently by two reviewers. Effect sizes were correlation coefficient betwee...

Objectives: Attempts have been made to identify markers for aggressive disease in papillary microcarcinomas (PMCs), but genetic alterations identified in PMCs have failed to distinguish tumors with high-risk features. Thus, we aimed to identify candidate markers associated with lateral node metastasis (N1b) in patients with PMC through a transcriptomic analysis.Methods: Bulk RNA sequencing was performed in 26 matched tumor and normal thyroid tissue sampl...