Endocrine Abstracts

Emerging evidence indicates that the cellular machinery controlling the splicing process (spliceosome) is altered in several tumour types, leading to oncogenic splicing events associated with tumour progression and aggressiveness. However, whether this molecular phenomenon also occurs in thyroid cancer has not been yet explored. Therefore, our main aim was to explore the potential dysregulation of the expression of relevant spliceosome components and splicing factors in clinic...

Background: Amyloidosis is defined as the accumulation of amorphous, proteinaceous material in different parts of the body. It can be primary or secondary, having decreased the incidence of this last one due to the current therapeutic landscape of infectious and autoimmune diseases. This material can be deposited in the thyroid gland resulting in an enlargement known as Amyloid goiter. Although amyloid infiltration in thyroid is common, the occurrence of clinically enlarged th...

Background: Retroperitoneal Schwannomas are rare and generally benign tumors originating from the neural sheath. In particular, juxta-adrenal schwannomas may be misdiagnosed as adrenal tumors due to their location and radiological characteristics.Case Presentation: A 40-year-old female patient referred to our outpatient clinic owing to a left suprarenal mass of 35 mm incidentally discovered in an enhanced CT. She was asymptomatic and the clinical examina...

Background: PREDIRCAM2 is a web platform for obesity treatment and follow-up. It contains modules for: dietary prescription and registry with nutritional analysis based on individualized and mediterranean dietary goals, physical activity prescription and tracking with individualized targets, and anthropometric tracking. An ongoing multicenter randomized clinical trial evaluates the intervention’s effectiveness in obesity treatment and cardio-metabolic-risk prevention....

Hyperthyroid rats and humans exhibit increased energy expenditure and marked hyperphagia. Recent evidence has pointed that alterations of thermogenesis linked to hyperthyroidism are associated to dysregulation of hypothalamic AMPK and fatty acid metabolism; however, the central mechanisms mediating hyperthyroidism-induced hyperphagia remain largely unclear.Objective: The aim of our study was to assess if alterations in feeding in hyperthyroidism are asso...

Introduction: Thyroid antiperoxidase antibodies above the cut-off value (ATPO +) may increase the risk of maternal-foetal complications and could modify the treatment criteria. The aim of the study is to consider the impact of levothyroxine administration on maternal-foetal complications in ATPO+ pregnant women with delivery in 2016.Methods: In Leon’s health area (Spain), universal screening for gestational thyroid dysfunction is performed. ATPO + w...

Introduction: The Carney-Stratakis syndrome (CSS) is an inherited condition caused by germline mutations in succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) subunits B, C or D that predispose to gastric stromal tumors (GIST) and multicentric paragangliomas (PGL). SDH acts as a tumor suppressor gene, and enzyme activity reduction is known to be oncogenic. Since 2002 there has been some scarce reports. We present a new case of CSS associated with a germline unknown significance mutation in exon 4 ...

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (panNETs) are the second most common neoplasm of the pancreas. panNETs arise from cells of the pancreatic islets and comprise a diverse and heterogeneous group of neoplasms. This hampers their systematic study, and the identification of common molecular signatures that might facilitate a better diagnosis of the disease, and the development of efficient therapeutic approaches. Indeed, there are no clinical, biochemical, anatomopathological, immu...

Background: Somatostatin (SST)/Cortistatin (CORT) system is a complex hormonal axis involved in the progression of several tumor types. However, its role has not been explored in prostate cancer (PCa), one of the most common type among men.Objectives: We aimed to investigate the presence and the pathophysiological role of SST/CORT in PCa.Methods: We analysed functional parameters in response to SST and CORT and to CORT-silencing in...

Introduction: Hypothalamic obesity (HyOb) is a rare form of treatment-resistant morbid obesity associated with hypothalamic damage. Its pathophysiology is incompletely understood, and is associated with hyperphagia and hyperinsulinaemia. We sought to compare the physiology of various appetite-regulating hormones in HyOb and ‘simple’ obesity.Methods: Oral glucose-stimulated serum insulin and plasma oxytocin concentrations, and fasting concentrat...