Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: This study described overweight/obese children and adolescents seeking weight loss treatment regarding their age, gender, severity of obesity and maternal education in Rasht City, northern Iran.Design: A descriptive study on overweight children and adolescents setting: the main clinic of obesity management in Rasht, northern Iran.Subjects: Data on 1465 overweight/obese children and adolescents aged 2–18 years engage...

CTGF is a heparin-binding multi-domain growth factor, stimulated by TGF- beta, and implicated as a paracrine regulator of mitosis, angiogenesis, cellular taxis and remodelling of the extracellular matrix in diverse epithelial cell layers. To examine the roles of CTGF in the ovarian paracrine system, we studied rat granulosa cell CTGF gene expression both in vitro and in vivo. Untreated granulosa cell monolayers from DES-treated immature rats expressed abundant ap...

In collaboration with local borough councils and the League of Diabetes and in response to severe staff shortages, the Southern Health & Social Care Trust (SHSCT), Northern Ireland, Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) team ran age banded group clinics at local Leisure centres. Due to unexpected and challenging staffing issues within the T1D team we had to think outside the box as to how we would deliver ‘clinic’ appointments in a timely manner to our children and young people ...

Mitochondria oxidize food substrates to generate energy for cellular work and heat is variably generated depending on the degree of coupling of electron transport to oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). It has been hypothesized that climatic pressures exerted selection for mitochondrial haplogroup in arctic populations for a lower coupling of mitochondrial respiration to ATP production in favor of heat production. In this study muscle mitochondrial function was studied in Inuit...

The capacity of the adrenal to produce steroids is controlled in part through the transcriptional regulation of steroid enzymes. Steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1), an orphan nuclear receptor is thought to be central to the transcriptional regulation of all steroid hydroxylase enzymes. Recently co-regulatory proteins have been implicated in the modulation of nuclear receptor transcriptional activity. We hypothesised that classic and novel secretogogues, including forskolin, angiote...

The capacity of the adrenal to produce cortisol is controlled in part by the transcription of 21 hydroxylase(CYP21) and production of androgens by 17 hydroxylase/17-20 lyase(CYP17) in response to secretogoues including ACTH, angiotensin-II(A-II) and forskolin. Both mRNA and protein expression of CYP21 was upregulated in the presence of forskolin and A-II alone and in combination in vitro H-295 adrenocortical cells, as detected by northern and western blotting. Whereas, ...

Introduction: Klinefelter syndrome (KS) is the most frequent chromosomal disorders, occurring in 1:500 to 1:1000 live male births, associated to male infertility. Although significant research has been conducted, KS remains frustratingly underdiagnosed with a remarkable portion of cases being unidentified. Under diagnosis may be due to man’s hesitancy about seeking medical counseling, low awareness of KS among health professionals, and failure by health professionals to p...

This multicentric cross sectional study, conducted in northern India, aimed to assess the clinical profile of socioeconomically underprivileged children and adolescents, aged below 18 years, with type 1 diabetes. A structured questionnaire was distributed to OPD patients, after taking informed written consent. These patients hailed from six states of India, thus providing a comprehensive picture of the burden of disease. Data was collected regarding their clinical history and ...

Metabolism of glucocorticoids to dihydro and tetrahydro derivatives via hepatic 5alpha- and 5beta-reductases has been assumed to be a pathway of irreversible inactivation of glucocorticoids. However, 5alpha-reduced metabolites of other steroids (testosterone, aldosterone) have significant affinity for the parent hormone receptor. We have investigated whether 5alpha-reduced metabolites of corticosterone (B) are GR agonists.In hepatocytes from male lean Zucker rats (n=6) com...

Objectives: The use of thyroid hormones (TH) to treat obesity is not supported by evidence based on efficacy and safety, and this is reflected in recommendations of major international guidelines on hypothyroidism and obesity. We aimed to explore views about this practice among European thyroid specialists and their associations with respondent characteristics.Methods: Thyroid specialists from 28 countries were invited to participate in a questionnaire s...