Issue 3/2009
Content (27 Articles)
Calcium-sensing receptor in cancer: good cop or bad cop?
Bandana Chakravarti, Shailendra Kumar Dhar Dwivedi, Ambrish Mithal, Naibedya Chattopadhyay
Addison’s disease with pituitary hyperplasia: a case report and review of the literature
Jiaqiang Zhou, Lingxiang Ruan, Hong Li, Qingqing Wang, Fenping Zheng, Fang Wu
Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion associated with acute myeloid leukemia with multilineage dysplasia
Shoko Nakayama, Taiji Yokote, Kichinosuke Kobayashi, Yuji Hirata, Toshikazu Akioka, Takuji Miyoshi, Takayuki Takubo, Motomu Tsuji, Toshiaki Hanafusa
Adrenal ganglioneuroma: report of a new case
Cihangir Erem, Ozge Ucuncu, Irfan Nuhoglu, Akif Cinel, Umit Cobanoglu, Adem Demirel, Ekrem Koc, Mustafa Kocak, Gulname Fındık Guvendi
A case of Riedel’s thyroiditis with pleural and pericardial effusions
Murat Faik Erdoğan, Cüneyd Anıl, Nuran Türkçapar, Demet Özkaramanlı, Serpil Dizbay Sak, Gürbüz Erdoğan
Exacerbation of thyroid associated ophthalmopathy after arterial embolization therapy in a patient with Graves’ disease
Tetsuya Hiraiwa, Akihisa Imagawa, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Hiroshi Arimoto, Takeshi Arishima, Mitsuru Ito, Yasushi Nakamura, Fumio Matsuzuka, Akira Miyauchi, Jun Sugasawa, Tsunehiko Ikeda, Yoshifumi Narumi, Toshiaki Hanafusa
Psychosocial morbidity in Cushing disease: a study from India
Surendra Kumar Mattoo, Anil Kumar Bhansali, Nitin Gupta, Sandeep Grover, Rama Malhotra
Neuropeptide Y and gamma-melanocyte stimulating hormone (γ-MSH) share a common pressor mechanism of action
Kenneth A. Gruber, Wei Fan, Helena Akerberg, Dan Larhammar, Melissa J. S. Chee, William F. Colmers, Roger D. Cone
Serum albumin protects from cytokine-induced pancreatic β cell death by a phosphoinositide 3-kinase-dependent mechanism
Caroline Kiaer, Peter Thams
Insulin-dependent actions of pioglitazone in newly diagnosed, drug naïve patients with type 2 diabetes
Eiji Kutoh, Takuya Fukushima
Klotho suppresses TNF-α-induced expression of adhesion molecules in the endothelium and attenuates NF-κB activation
Yoshihiro Maekawa, Kazuhiko Ishikawa, Osamu Yasuda, Ryosuke Oguro, Hiroko Hanasaki, Iwao Kida, Yukihiro Takemura, Mitsuru Ohishi, Tomohiro Katsuya, Hiromi Rakugi
Mutations and polymorphisms in the SDHB, SDHD, VHL, and RET genes in sporadic and familial pheochromocytomas
Jens Waldmann, Peter Langer, Nils Habbe, Volker Fendrich, Anette Ramaswamy, Matthias Rothmund, Detlef K. Bartsch, Emily P. Slater
Multiple core homeodomain binding motifs differentially contribute to transcriptional activity of the murine gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene promoter
Clay A. Lents, Todd A. Farmerie, Brian D. Cherrington, Colin M. Clay
Carotid intima media thickness is increased and associated with morning cortisol in subjects with non-functioning adrenal incidentaloma
Serkan Yener, Sinan Genc, Baris Akinci, Mustafa Secil, Tevfik Demir, Abdurrahman Comlekci, Senem Ertilav, Sena Yesil
Circulating adiponectin represents a biomarker of the association between adiposity and bone mineral density
Kemal Ağbaht, Alper Gürlek, Jale Karakaya, Miyase Bayraktar
Effects of one year simvastatin and atorvastatin treatments on acute phase reactants in uncontrolled type 2 diabetic patients
Kubilay Ukinc, Halil Onder Ersoz, Cihangir Erem, Arif Bayram Hacihasanoglu, Suleyman Sami Karti
Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA) induces growth arrest and apoptosis in pituitary adenoma cells
S. R. Sangeetha, Nagendra Singh, John R. Vender, Krishnan M. Dhandapani
Gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty associated with a somatic activating mutation of the LH receptor gene: detection of a mutation present in only a small fraction of cells from testicular tissue using wild-type blocking polymerase chain reaction and laser-capture microdissection
Katsumi Goji, Yoshie Teraoka, Yuki Hosokawa, Misako Okuno, Kayo Ozaki, Makiko Yoshida, Masafumi Matsuo
Heat stimulation reduces early adipogenesis in 3T3-L1 preadipocytes
Tomonobu Ezure, Satoshi Amano
Carotid stiffness and microalbuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes
Wei-Wei Zhan, Yu-Hong Chen, Yi-Fei Zhang, Ying Zhu, Yan-Yan Lin, Xin-Ping Ren, Xiao-Ying Li, Yan-Ping Liu
Association of TRB3 gene Q84R polymorphism with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Chinese population
Zhiyong Shi, Jing Liu, Qian Guo, Xiaoqin Ma, Linna Shen, Sanni Xu, Hongxia Gao, Xinjian Yuan, Junling Zhang
Regulatory T cells in type 1 diabetic patients with autoimmune chronic atrophic gastritis
Núria Alonso, María Jesús Martínez-Arconada, María Luisa Granada, Berta Soldevila, Ana Cantón, José Luis Mate, Anna Sanmartí, Eva María Martínez-Cáceres
Human pituitary contains dual cathepsin L and prohormone convertase processing pathway components involved in converting POMC into the peptide hormones ACTH, α-MSH, and β-endorphin
Vivian Hook, Lydiane Funkelstein, Thomas Toneff, Charles Mosier, Shin-Rong Hwang
Direct effects of eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids on phospholipid and triglyceride fatty acid pattern, glucose metabolism, 86rubidium net uptake and insulin release in BRIN-BD11 cells
Ying Zhang, Raphael Crutzen, Karim Louchami, Yvon A. Carpentier, Abdullah Sener, Willy J. Malaisse
Expression of the electrogenic Na+–HCO3 −-cotransporters NBCe1-A and NBCe1-B in rat pancreatic islet cells
Muhammad S. Soyfoo, Nurdan Bulur, Myrna Virreira, Karim Louchami, Pascale Lybaert, Raphael Crutzen, Jason Perret, Christine Delporte, Eleni Roussa, Frank Thevenod, Len Best, Allen P. Yates, Willy J. Malaisse, Abdullah Sener, Renaud Beauwens
Progesterone receptors A and B and estrogen receptor alpha expression in normal breast tissue and fibroadenomas
Gisele Branchini, Lolita Schneider, Rodrigo Cericatto, Edison Capp, Ilma Simoni Brum
Fasting and postprandial plasma ghrelin levels are decreased in patients with liver failure previous to liver transplantation
Maria Teresa Diz-Lois, Jesús Garcia-Buela, Francisco Suarez, Susana Sangiao-Alvarellos, Ovidio Vidal, Fernando Cordido