Endocrine Abstracts

Contents

• Plenary Lectures’ Biographical Notes
• • Society for Endocrinology Dale Medal Lecture
  • • Hormones and ovaries: a lifelong journey

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    • Society for Endocrinology Dale Medal Lecture

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  • Society for Endocrinology Transatlantic Medal Lecture
  • • Insulin-like growth factors and the evolution of human growth

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    • Society for Endocrinology Transatlantic Medal Lecture

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  • Society for Endocrinology Asia and Oceania Medal Lecture
  • • Testicular dysgenesis syndrome: clinical and environmental aspects

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    • Society for Endocrinology European Medal Lecture

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  • Society for Endocrinology European Medal Lecture
  • • Unraveling the metabolic mysteries regulating body composition: new insights into old hormones

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    • Society for Endocrinology Asia and Oceania Medal Lecture

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  • The British Thyroid Association Pitt Rivers Lecture
  • • Thyroid hormone receptors, mutations, and cancer development

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    • The British Thyroid Association Pitt Rivers Lecture

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  • Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor Lecture
  • • Inappropriate secretion of TSH

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    • Clinical Endocrinology Trust Visiting Professor Lecture

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  • Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture
  • • The endocrinology of menstruation

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    • Society for Endocrinology Medal Lecture

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  • Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lecture
  • • Aldosterone and cardiovascular function: a lifetime of damage

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    • Clinical Endocrinology Trust Lecture

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• Symposia
• • New twists in appetite/satiety signalling pathways
  • • Plasma triglycerides and appetite control

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    • Imaging the brain appetite network

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    • Role of central serotonin 2C receptors in appetite control

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    • Central role of AMP-kinase in appetite control

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  • System-specific effect steroids
  • • Glucocorticoid signalling in the brain

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    • Glucocorticoids, 11[beta] HSDs and neuroprotection

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    • Glucocorticoids, liver, fat and metabolic syndrome

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    • Glucocorticoids, folliculostellate cells and the pituitary

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  • Hypoxia: its effects on physiology and pathophysiology
  • • Hypoxia signalling and VHL

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    • Hypoxia: its short- and long-term effects on the developing fetus

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    • Hypoxia, angiogenesis and proliferative diabetic retinopathy

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    • Understanding VEGF action: the role of a novel factor, Dll4

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  • Thyroid hormones in development: physiology and clinical implications
  • • Thyroid hormone transport and neurological development

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    • New roles of deiodinases in development

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    • The HPT axis in control of skeletal development

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    • Clinical implications of fetal and neonatal thyroid development

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  • Androgen receptors - physiology and disease
  • • Tissue-specific androgen receptor knockout models. novel tools in the study of androgen action

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    • Loss of androgen receptor binding to selective androgen response elements causes a reproductive phenotype in the transgenic SPARKI mice

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    • Androgen receptors in development: biochemical and clinical correlates

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  • The endocrinology of critical illness
  • • Critical illness: an overview of the physiological and metabolic changes

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    • The glucocorticoid axis in critical illness: cause or effect?

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    • Thyroid hormone axis in critical illness

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    • Insulin and blood glucose changes in critical illness

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  • Evolving endocrine targets for C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP)
  • • Emerging roles for CNP

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    • The new biology of pituitary natriuretic peptides: novel signalling from guanylyl cyclase-B receptors

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    • New aspects of CNP function

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    • Novel cardiovascular roles for CNP

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  • Inflammation and the adipocyte - integrated pathways that regulate disease risk
  • • Leptin as a proinflammatory cytokine

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    • Nuclear receptors and regulation of inflammatory pathways

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    • Anti-inflammatory and pro-resolution lipid mediators: lessons for obesity-related inflammation

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    • Adipose tissue and chronic inflammation

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  • Recent advances and new treatment options in diabetes
  • • New approaches to treating diabetic microvascular complications

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    • Incretin-based therapies

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    • Immune therapy: prevention is better than cure

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    • Islet transplantation: way to go!

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• Clinical Management Workshops
• • Fibrous dysplasia and McCune-Albright syndrome
  • • The endocrine consequences of McCune-Albright syndrome

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    • Molecular genetics and cell biology of McCune-Albright syndrome and fibrous dysplasia

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    • Medical treatment of fibrous dysplasia of bone

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  • PCOS: impact on long-term health outcomes
  • • Fat metabolism, obesity, NASH in PCOS and insulin resistant states

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    • Cardiovascular implications of polycystic ovary syndrome

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    • Long-term implications of PCOS in children and adolescents

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  • Managing the obese
  • • Managing the obese patients: lifestyle intervention and prescriptive exercise

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    • Obesity management: the role of drugs in the 21st Century

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    • New insulins - suck 'em and see

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    • Managing the obese patient: role of bariatric surgery

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  • Transitional endocrinology
  • • The management of Prader-Willi syndrome from paediatric to adult care

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    • The management of congenital adrenal hyperplasia from paediatric to adult care

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    • The management of Turner Syndrome from paediatric to adult care

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    • Overview and diagnosis

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• Nurse Session
• • Cushing's syndrome
  • • Cushing's: the worst case scenario

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    • A case of cyclical Cushing's syndrome?

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    • Cushing's syndrome: a success story?

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  • Diabetes insipidus
  • • How to do a water deprivation test: interpretation of results

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    • Water deprivation test: a 'real' case

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    • Water deprivation test: a 'Red Herring' case

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• Young Endocrinologists Session
• • Young Endocrinologist prize lecture
  • • Peptide YY: food for thought

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    • 11[beta]-HSD1 and metabolic disease: a mouses' tail

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  • Obtaining funding for young endocrinologists
  • • Obtaining funding for your research

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    • Clinical research fellowships: an insider's account

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    • Basic Science Research in lectureships: a day in the life of...

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    • The Been-to-America degree revisited: is it really still worth it?

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• Molecular Endocrinology Workshop
• • Cell metabolomics
  • • Cell metabolomics: differential metabolism of glucose and fructose in pancreatic cancer

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  • Crossing knock-out models
  • • Combining mouse genetics, transgenics and knockouts to explore the biology of MC1R agonism and antagonism

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• Clinical Debate
• • This house believes that males become menopausal
  • • For: Males become menopausal

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    • Male menopause: a non-existing phenomenon

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• Oral Communications
• • Young Endocrinologist prize session
  • • Clinical manifestations of familial paraganglioma and phaeochromocytomas in succinate dehydrogenase B gene mutation carriers

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    • The ghrelin-cannabinoid axis: a novel pathway in the regulation of appetite and metabolism

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    • Does 11[beta]HSD1 in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) deliver cortisol to the liver? Studies with portal vein sampling and tracer infusion in humans

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    • Hypoxia and GC Signalling regulate macrophage migration inhibitory factor (mif) gene expression through a common element

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    • Placental vascular development and nutrient transport in 11[beta]-HSD2-/- mice

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    • MRAP2 permits the functional expression of the melanocortin-2-receptor: a new member of a new family of melanocortin receptor accessory proteins

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    • Testosterone treatment improves muscle strength, lean mass and quality of life in prefrail and frail elderly men: results from a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled study

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    • [beta]-cell 11[beta]-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 contributes to type 2 diabetes

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  • Reproduction
  • • Dynamic responses of oestrogen receptors revealed by fluorescent recovery after photobleaching

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    • Expression of somatostatin receptors 1-5 in normal human endometrium through the menstrual cycle

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    • Identification of a novel compound heterozygous mutation in the gonadotrophin releasing hormone receptor in two siblings with isolated hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism

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    • Modelling Kallmann's syndrome in the zebrafish

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    • Effect of hypoxia and inflammatory and anti-inflammatory signals on gene expression in sheep ovarian surface epithelium in vitro

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    • IGF-mediated cell turnover in the human placenta is positively regulated by the protein tyrosine phosphatase, SHP-2

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    • Evaluation of the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency and its treatment in a West London pregnant population

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    • Enhanced hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation, 5[alpha]-reductase activity and insulin resistance distinguishes polycystic ovary syndrome from simple obesity

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  • Tumours, diabetes, bone
  • • Cinacalcet is an effective and well tolerated treatment for MEN1 associated primary hyperparathyroidism

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    • Human omental adipose tissue as a key site for the inflammatory 15-lipoxygenase pathway: Implications for metabolic disease

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    • Expression of the parathyroid-specific transcription factor glial cell-missing B is regulated by GATA3

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    • Serum 18 hydroxycortisol identifies aldosteronoma in the differential diagnosis of primary aldosteronism

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    • Delineating the mechanisms of Visfatin regulation in human AT and the implications of TZD treatment in Type 2 Diabetes

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    • Cataracts are a phenotypic feature of autosomal dominant hypocalcaemia with hypercalciuria (ADHH): lessons from the Nuf mouse model with an activating calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) mutation

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    • Obesity resulting from Gs[alpha]; mutations in the maternal (but not paternal) allele is a consequence of Gsa; imprinting in the central nervous system

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    • The calcilytic agent NPS2143 rectifies hypocalcaemia in a mouse model, Nuf, that is due to an activating calcium-sensing-receptor (CaSR) mutation: relevance to autosomal dominant hypocalcaemia with hypercalciuria

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  • Pituitary, disease
  • • Identification of MC2R receptor accessory protein domains required for interaction with MC2R and formation of a functional ACTH responsive receptor

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    • A role for CD38 in anterior pituitary somatotrophs? Studies in CD38 null mice

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    • Adipose GR knockdown protects against obesity in female mice

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    • Pre-receptor cortisol metabolism is a critical regulator of insulin signalling in human adipose tissue

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    • Targeting Cyp11b1 expression in mice to model sequelae of congenital adrenal hyperplasia

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    • Local cortisol generation by human macrophage subsets by 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 enzyme and its role in ocular immune privilege

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    • Do polyunsaturated fatty acids stimulate steroidogenesis through affecting the expression of liver X receptor?

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    • Coupling of GR cellular distribution and function to the cell cycle

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  • Thyroid
  • • Effect of thyroid status on the skeleton in post-menopausal women: the OPUS study

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    • Maternal isodisomy for a novel human FOXE1 gene mutation in syndromic congenital hypothyroidsim

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    • Circulating endothelial progenitor cells are reduced in subclinical and overt hypothyroidism

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    • Increased skeletal mineralisation in mice lacking type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase

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    • Endocytosis involves a CLC-5 and KIF3B interaction: relevance to thyroid and renal tubular function

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    • Serious vascular events for patients on long-term thyroxine: the TEARS Study

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    • HIF-1[alpha] is a common downstream target of PI3K and MAPK/ERK signalling in thyroid carcinomas

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    • Direct actions of T3 in proliferating chondrocytes regulate endochondral ossification and linear growth

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• Poster Presentations
• • Bone
  • • Presentation of primary hypoparathyroidism during pregnancy: maternal and fetal effects

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    • Hypocalcaemia in pregnancy: vitamin D deficiency and pseudohypoparathryoidism type 1b

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    • Voracious bones: an unusual case of hungry bone syndrome

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    • Why do we need to think of differential diagnosis?

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    • Clinical characteristics of patients with osteoporosis in the coeliac clinic

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    • Sunlight deficiency: a reversible cause of low serum phosphate?

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    • Uncommon cause of refractory hypercalcaemia in a patient with bladder tumour

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    • A rare complication of a rare disease: case report of an indolent metastatic parathyroid cancer

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    • Estrogen augments shear stress-induced signaling and gene expression in osteoblasts by integrins highly expression

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    • Management of pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1b in pregnancy: a case report

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    • A retrospective audit of the use of pamidronate for fibrous dysplasia

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    • Pre-operation imaging of parathyroid gland in primary hyperparathyroidism

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    • Calcium and vitamin D supplementation in elderly care home residents

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    • Effects of 6 months strontium ranelate administration on phosphocalcium metabolism in postmenopausal women with reduced bone density

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    • Vitamin D status in pregnancy in four ethnic groups

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    • Adenosine is an important regulator of mesenchymal stem cell differentiation into osteoblasts

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    • Prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in a London population diagnosed with active tuberculosis

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    • Expression and function of gut hormone receptors in osteoblast cell lines

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  • Clinical practice/governance and case reports
  • • A case severe magnesium deficiency due to gentamicin therapy

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    • Perioperative prolonged lithium-induced nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

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    • Tereparatide for treatment of hypoparathyroidism

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    • Testosterone injections in a bodybuilder with polycythemia vera leading to stroke

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    • The vanishing pituitary mass

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    • Hypomagnesaemia related to proton pump inhibition

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    • Diabetic retinopathy: an unexpected deterioration?

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    • Parathyroid carcinoma: a diagnostic challenge

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    • Ovarian hyperthecosis in a postmenopausal woman

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    • A treatment for mouth ulceration masks the diagnosis of Addison's disease

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    • Reversible cushingoid features and biochemistry with weight loss

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    • Hypocalcaemic and non-hypocalcaemic tetany following total thyroidectomy: a case report

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    • Osteomalacia with associated functional hypoparathyroidism

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    • Cyclical hypercalcaemic crises in a patient with primary hyperparathyroidism: case report

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    • Thrombo-embolism and Klinefelter's syndrome

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    • Thyrotoxicosis management audit

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    • Does a generic lay-led self management programme help women with polycystic ovary syndrome? A qualitative evaluation

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    • Leydig cell tumour of the ovary: a case report

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    • Hyperparathyroid crisis presenting with junctional rhythm

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    • An endocrine e-mail GP advisory service: a potential way to reduce referrals?

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    • Granuloma annulare: a rare association with autoimmune Addisons disease

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    • Radioiodine treatment as a treatment modality in amiodarone induced thyrotoxicosis: a case report

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    • Von-Hippel-Lindau syndrome presenting in late pregnancy

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    • Audit of local management of primary hyperparathyroidism: would local guidelines aid management?

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    • Severe poikilothermia due to hypothalamic injury managed with a portable external heating vest

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    • A case of insulinoma presenting with low serum insulin levels

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    • Dopamine agonist therapy versus surgery in cystic macroprolactinoma

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    • Use of glitazones in type 2 diabetes

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    • Audit of the investigation and diagnosis of hyponatraemia in elderly medical in-patients

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    • Is there an association between growth hormone treatment in childhood and gastric polyps?

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    • Adult multi-system Langerhans' cell histiocytosis complicated by growth hormone associated intracranial hypertension

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    • Assessment of optimum hydrocortisone replacement therapy in patients with adrenal insufficiency

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    • Cinacalcet as a conservative and economical alternative to parathyroidectomy

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    • Two unusual cases of adrenal incidentalomas

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    • Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism: a consequence of Chiari-I malformation

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    • Non- islet cell tumour hypoglycaemia associated with ovarian carcinoma

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    • Cushing's syndrome or is it? a case report

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    • Adrenal suppression and intranasal steroid use

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    • Hyperglycaemia and ketoacidosis due to insulinoma

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    • An audit of the management of primary hyperparathyroidism

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    • Difficulties with insulin stress tests in an adult survivor of childhood malignancy

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    • Hypercalcaemia: a common presentation, an interesting cause: where isolated splenomegaly and hypercalcaemia are the only features of sarcodosis

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    • Like mother like son: a case of maternal and neonatal water intoxication

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    • Cyproterone acetate and meningiomas in a sex offender: a case report

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    • Specialist obesity services: are we seeing the right patients?

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    • Tuberculous disease of the pituitary

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    • Surviving extreme hypercalcaemia

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    • Sepsis, metabolic acidosis and gestational diabetes: a missing clue

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    • Acromegaly in a patient with bronchial carcinoid complicated by oesophageal varices

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    • Anterior hypopituitarism in a 56-year-old man with galactosemia

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    • A case of hypercalcaemia due to ectopic PTH secretion

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    • Lithium blocks the mineralocorticoid action of fludrocortisone in Addison's disease both for replacement and in the treatment of Addisonian crisis

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    • Prolonged oestrogen release from oestrogen implants

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    • Lymphocytic hypophysitis with acute hypopituitarism followed by acute visual disturbance after a long latent period

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    • Erdheim Chester disease: a rare cause of diabetes insipidus and acute renal failure

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    • An adrenaline-secreting phaeochromocytoma in pregnancy

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    • Pituitary granular cell adenoma: an unusual cause of a pituitary mass

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    • An unusual cause of bilateral adrenal incidentalomas

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    • Addison's disease: autoimmune or related to adrenomyeloneuropathy?

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    • Zoledronate associated severe hypocalcaemia causing bradyarrhythmia that required urgent cardiac pacing

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    • Not another case of chronic fatigue syndrome or polycystic ovarian disease

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    • An unusually large thyroglossal cyst harbouring a papillary thyroid cancer

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    • Nasal polyps: an unusual presentation of macroprolactinomas

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    • An audit of diagnosis and management of acromegaly in a District General Hospital

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    • Viable pregnancy associated with intrapartum rhGH replacement therapy

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    • Severe hyponatraemia: assessment and management

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    • Challenges in management of primary hypoparathyroidism associated with autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1 (APS I)

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    • Case report: hypoglycaemia, ketosis and lactic acidosis in a 17 year old: atypical presentation of an inborn error of metabolism

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    • Sarcoidosis associated hypercalcaemia and renal failure mimicking lymphoma

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    • Experience from the first two years of a dedicated clinic for adults with Turner syndrome

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    • Study on dopamine agonists and valvular heart disease in patients with acromegaly

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    • An audit of the monitoring of testosterone replacement therapy

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    • Growth hormone replacement in patients with treated germ cell tumours: safety issues

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    • Extreme delay in presentation of congenital adrenal hyperplasia in a male with CYP21A2 deficiency

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    • Mauriac syndrome: a case report

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    • Complete androgen insensitivity in twins conceived using gamete intrafallopian tube transfer (GIFT)

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    • Impact of NICE guidelines for adult growth hormone replacement on practice in Scotland

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    • Abbreviated metyrapone day curves: do they work?

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    • Onset of severe hyponatraemia during hospitalisation carries a worse prognosis than severe hyponatraemia present on admission

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    • Biochemical diagnosis of sporadic phaeochromocytoma: an audit of 24 h urinary catecholamine excretion (UCAT) requests from primary and secondary care

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    • The assessment of long-term use of testosterone replacement therapy in men with hypoganadism

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    • Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide secreting pancreatic tumour (VIPoma) with liver metastases in a 46-year-old male, long term survival after orthotopic liver transplantation

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    • Infectious causes of adrenal insufficiency: a report from South India

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    • An unusual case of vaginal bleeding: a novel deletion in 17[beta]HSD3 resulting in male pseudohermaphroditism

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    • 11 Beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 activity in septic shock before and during treatment with hydrocortisone

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    • Body volume index: time to replace body mass index?

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  • Cytokines and growth factors
  • • Unlike subcutaneous expression of IL-6 and IL-18, omental expression of IL-6, IL-18 and MCP-1 are not related to systemic cytokine levels in human obesity

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    • Expression and purification of the leptin receptor

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    • Transgenic mice overexpressing growth hormone (GH) exhibit hepatic upregulation of GH-signalling mediators involved in cell proliferation, migration and survival

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    • Extracellular matrix protein anosmin-1 modulates FGFR1/FGF2/heparin complex formation

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    • Relationships of IGF-I and its binding proteins to cardiac, large and small vessel structure and function in premenopausal women

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    • Beneficial synergistic interactions of TNF-[alpha] and IL-6 in C2 skeletal myoblasts; potential cross-talk with IGF system

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    • The myotoxic growth factor: a novel role of IGF-I in skeletal myoblasts?

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  • Diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular
  • • Significant hyperkalemia and hyponatremia with telmisartan/hydrochlorotiazide combination

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    • Management of diabetic ketoacidosis in a District General Hospital

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    • Dunnigan Kobberling syndrome: a case report

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    • Type 1 diabetes in a patient with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (21-hydroxylase deficiency): coincidence or association?

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    • A study of iron markers in gestational diabetes

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    • Glucagon-like peptide-1 responses following multiple meals in lean and obese subjects

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    • Deranged liver biochemistry after treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis

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    • Does poor adolescent diabetic control result in poor adult control?

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    • Care of diabetic inpatients: the role of diabetic nurse specialists

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    • Cardiometabolic disease in adrenal insufficiency: is the risk increased?

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    • ATPIII and International Diabetes Federation defined metabolic syndrome and homeostasis model assessment-estimated insulin resistance gradually raise across increasing grades of obesity

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    • Obesity-related nephropathy; evidence of proximal tubular damage

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    • Severe hyponatremia: the management dilemma

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    • The impact of 3D body images on motivating weight loss in overweight individuals

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    • Identification of a circadian clock within adipocyte cells

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    • Mineralocorticoid action in essential hypertension

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    • Is retinol binding protein a marker of insulin resistance in first-degree relatives of men with intermittent claudication (IC)?

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    • Latent type 1 diabetes presenting as atypical gestational diabetes

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    • Effect of ingestion of food on the inhibition of DPPIV activity by oral metformin in type 2 diabetes

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    • Factors effecting CHD risk reduction in patients with type 2 diabetes and microalbuminuria

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    • In obese men, lower circulating androgens restrain generation of oestrogens by aromatase, with adverse metabolic effects

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    • Retinol binding protein 4 and adiponectin multimers in obesity: influence on insulin resistance and effects of weight reduction

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    • Endoplasmic reticulum stress and the innate immune signalling pathway in human abdominal adipose tissue: the effects of obesity

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    • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and its relationship with Type 2 diabetes

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    • The influence of birth weight on glucocorticoid receptor (GCR) expression in skeletal muscle of neonatal pigs

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    • Effects of Persea americana Mill (Lauraceae) ('Avocado') ethanolic leaf extract (PAE) on blood glucose and kidney function in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats and on kidney cell lines of the proximal (LLC-PK1) and distal tubules (MDBK)

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    • Differential changes in C/EBP isoforms may underpin tissue-specific dysregulation of 11[beta]-HSD1 with high fat feeding

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    • Metabolically unhealthy obese patients have decreased and altered circulating natural killer cells and increased adipocyte size compared to obese metabolically healthy patients

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    • Prenatal diet and postnatal metabolic function in sheep: effect of adiposity on glucose-insulin dynamics

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    • Prevalence and predictors of glucocorticoid-induced hyperglycaemia in hospitalised patients

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    • Adipose: depot specific differences in response to TSH receptor activation: role of the extra-cellular matrix

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    • Androgens increase blood pressure in orchiectomized male Wistar rats similar to high salt diet

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    • The insulin secretory defect in diabetic woman with Turner syndrome is responsive to repaglinide

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    • Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein mutants, which cause familial juvenile hyperuricaemic nephropathy are retained in the endoplasmic reticulum, resulting in delayed maturation and trafficking to the plasma membrane

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    • Comparison of the effects of cannabinoid receptor modulation on adipogenesis in human primary preadipocytes and a murine cell line

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    • Maternal diabetes proliferate the choroid plexus and enlarge the lateral ventricle in brain of newborn rats

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    • Thyrotropin receptor activation and preadipocyte biology; dissecting the effects of Gs[alpha] and G[beta][gamma] signalling on 3T3-L1 preadipocytes

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    • Metabolic and vascular IGF-1 resistance is a marker of dietary-induced obesity

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    • Activation of the unfolded protein response pathway in the skeletal muscle of hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase knockout mice induces a severe myopathy

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    • Weight loss is associated with reduced glucocorticoid production, decreased 5[alpha]-reductase activity and enhanced adipose tissue insulin sensitivity

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    • Weight gain, on the background of human PPAR[gamma] haploinsufficiency, exposes a metabolic phenotype

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    • Depot specific differences in lipogenesis in human adipose tissue

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    • Dehydroepiandrosterone exerts anti-glucocorticoid action on proliferation, differentiation and insulin sensitivity in human preadipocytes

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    • Lipopolysaccharide increases adipokine gene expression in mouse brain and pituitary gland in vivo, and in hypothalamic neurons in vitro

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    • Familial juvenile hyperuricaemic nephropathy is due to mutations in Tamm-Horsfall protein and hepatocyte nuclear factor 1[beta]: further evidence for genetic heterogeneity

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    • Calcium-sensing receptor mediated PLC activation modulates proliferation and apoptosis in human vascular smooth muscle cells

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    • Glucocorticoid metabolism in human obesity; increased 5[alpha]-reductase activity is associated with insulin resistance in both men and women

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    • Rosiglitazone activates the glucocorticoid receptor

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    • Independent effects of insulin resistance and high molecular weight adiponectin on HDL cholesterol in polycystic ovarian syndrome

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    • Resistin activates AMP-activated protein kinase in a novel hypothalamic neuronal cell line: implications for central energy metabolism

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    • Adipose tissue lipid homeostasis in mice lacking hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase

      ea0015p162
  • Endocrine tumours and neoplasia
  • • Phaeochromocytoma presenting as severe cardiac dysfunction

      ea0015p163
    • Unsteady amenorrhoea

      ea0015p164
    • Audit of the role of imaging in localisation of parathyroid adenoma

      ea0015p165
    • A cross-sectional study of the influence of somatostatin analogue therapy on the prevalence of gluteal nodules in metastatic mid-gut carcinoid

      ea0015p166
    • Endocrine manipulation to treat aggressive angiomyxoma

      ea0015p167
    • Hepatic nodular hyperplasia masquerading as hepatic metastasis secondary to A virilising adrenal tumour

      ea0015p168
    • Menin-mutation negative MEN1-syndrome patients have no germline p27 (cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1B) or AIP (aryl hydrocarbon receptor-interacting protein) mutations

      ea0015p169
    • Atypical thymic carcinoid causing cyclical Cushing's syndrome

      ea0015p170
    • An example of Doege Potter syndrome

      ea0015p171
    • Hirsutism and hyperandrogenaemia in an 83 years old woman: importance of long term endocrine follow up

      ea0015p172
    • The management of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1: 5-year experience of a multidisciplinary clinic

      ea0015p173
    • A new pathway in the induction of breast cancer

      ea0015p174
    • Assessment of in vivo proliferation rates in insulinomas of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 knockout mice: implications for evaluating effectiveness of future treatments

      ea0015p175
    • A novel mechanism of thyroid tumorigenesis based on inactivation of p53 by the PTTG-binding factor PBF

      ea0015p176
    • Thalidomide therapy for metastatic adrenal carcinoma

      ea0015p177
    • A novel mechanism of NIS repression in differentiated thyroid cancer

      ea0015p178
    • Somatostatin analogues stimulate AMPK (AMP-dependent protein kinase), a metabolic enzyme with anti-proliferative effects

      ea0015p179
    • Somatostatin producing cells are significantly decreased in insulinoma islets of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) knockout mice: implication for pancreatic proliferation rates

      ea0015p180
    • A novel mechanism for inherited phaeochromocytoma: c.796_798delCAG (p.Gln195del) VHL-associated phaeochromocytoma: clinical and molecular characteristics

      ea0015p181
    • Pheochromocytoma: a rare but important cause of hypertension in pregnancy

      ea0015p182
    • Carcinoid tumour of appendix: a missed opportunity of selective screening?

      ea0015p183
    • A case of 'pseudophaeochromocytoma': a noradrenaline reuptake disorder

      ea0015p184
    • Steroid Sulphatase (STS) gene expression and regulation in normal human ovarian surface epithelium (OSE) and epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC)

      ea0015p185
    • A succinate dehydrogenase B (SDHB) founder mutation

      ea0015p186
    • Adenosine stimulates secretion of chromogranin A in enterochromaffin cells

      ea0015p187
    • Treating an aggressive prolactinoma in a patient with MEN 1: beneficial response to temozolomide

      ea0015p188
    • Screening for Cushing's syndrome in the diabetic clinic using nocturnal salivary cortisol

      ea0015p189
    • Construction of a recombinant adenovirus vector for Men1 gene delivery

      ea0015p190
    • In vivo delivery of an adenoviral gene therapy vector to pituitary tumours in Men1 deficient mice

      ea0015p191
    • AIP: a protein mutated in familial acromegaly plays a role in the regulation of cell proliferation and shows cell-type specific subcellular localisation

      ea0015p192
    • Cost-effectiveness of scan-directed parathyroidectomy

      ea0015p193
  • Growth and development
  • • A case of Gorlin-Goltz syndrome with delayed puberty

      ea0015p194
    • Is vertical growth still possible at the age of 30?

      ea0015p195
    • Improvement in exercise capacity following growth hormone (GH) replacement in GH-deficient patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

      ea0015p196
    • Age of pubertal stages in a representative sample of Iranian girls

      ea0015p197
    • The effect of galanin on the mean plasma concentrations of metabolic hormones in camel

      ea0015p198
    • Height and body proportions of women with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome and women with gonadal dysgenesis

      ea0015p199
    • Growth retardation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is not universally associated with growth hormone resistance

      ea0015p200
    • Expression of thyroid hormone transporters in the human fetal cerebral cortex

      ea0015p201
    • Attempted detection of recombinant glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins using Fluorescently Labelled Aerolysin, FLAER

      ea0015p202
  • Neuroendocrinology and behaviour
  • • Carcinoid syndrome presenting as chronic diarrhoea in a 88 year old lady with possible primary in the liver

      ea0015p203
    • Increased desire for food when fasted is associated with increased activation of the ventral striatum, insula and amygdala in humans

      ea0015p204
    • The influence of sex steroids on cognitive ability in pregnancy

      ea0015p205
    • High prevalence of sleep apnoea in craniopharyngioma patients after surgical intervention

      ea0015p206
    • Persistent AVP production and hyponatraemia in a male infant with an activating mutation of the AVPR2 and his heterozygous mother: new insights into NSIAD

      ea0015p207
    • Craniopharyngioma: a single institutional experience from South India

      ea0015p208
    • The physiological response of Peptide YY following orlistat

      ea0015p209
    • Effect of social isolation on hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis reactivity

      ea0015p210
    • The influence of Annexin A1 on the apoptosis of PC12 cells

      ea0015p211
    • Neurosarcoidosis presenting as secondary hypogonadism

      ea0015p212
    • Preservation of sexual dimorphism and diurnal variation in leptin levels of patients with craniopharyngioma

      ea0015p213
  • Pituitary
  • • Improvement in sexual function and testosterone levels within 6 weeks of treatment of hyperprolactinaemia

      ea0015p214
    • How reliable is the short Synacthen test in assessing the integrity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis: comparison with the insulin tolerance test

      ea0015p215
    • A case of silent ACTH/GH adenoma

      ea0015p216
    • The man with two concurrent pituitary tumours

      ea0015p217
    • Long term, high dose oestrogen treatment has no effect on prolactin levels and normalises gonadotrophin levels

      ea0015p218
    • Low dose cabergoline in hyperprolactinaemia is not associated with clinically significant valvular heart disease

      ea0015p219
    • A case of post-traumatic brain injury with idiopathic hyperprolactinaemia and growth hormone deficiency in a child

      ea0015p220
    • Gamma knife radiosurgery: a safe and effective treatment for acromegaly

      ea0015p221
    • Pituitary stalk lesions causing central diabetes insipidus: a case series

      ea0015p222
    • Cardiovascular function and cardiorespiratory fitness do not influence the AGHDA score in growth hormone deficiency (GHD)

      ea0015p223
    • Case report: a rare presentation of pituitary apoplexy associated with isolated transient diabetes insipidus

      ea0015p224
    • Polycystic ovary syndrome or Cushing's syndrome or both

      ea0015p225
    • Rapidly progressive hypopituitarism and visual failure due to metastatic small cell carcinoma

      ea0015p226
    • Unmasking of diabetes insipidus with steroid treatment

      ea0015p227
    • Epidemiology of pituitary adenomas: a cross-sectional study in the city of Banbury (Oxfordshire)

      ea0015p228
    • Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 presenting with pituitary apoplexy

      ea0015p229
    • Spontaneous recovery from severe cardiac failure after acute hypotensive infarction of a somatotroph adenoma

      ea0015p230
    • Anterior pituitary dysfunction occurs infrequently in adult idiopathic cranial diabetes insipidus

      ea0015p231
    • Assessment of quality of life and body image in adult patients with acromegaly and patients with other pituitary tumours

      ea0015p232
    • Defining the serum prolactin concentration threshold in stalk compressing non-prolactinoma pituitary adenomas

      ea0015p233
    • The natural history of surgical treated but radiation-naive non-functioning pituitary adenomas

      ea0015p234
    • Primary pituitary lymphoma presenting as hypopituitarism and diabetes insipidus

      ea0015p235
    • Locked nucleic acid modified siRNAs maintain efficacy of gene silencing, but have reduced serum stability in a model of Cushing's disease

      ea0015p236
    • Interaction of glucocorticoids and ATP on externalisation of annexin 1 and calcium transients in folliculostellate cells

      ea0015p237
    • Successful use of once weekly pegvisomant administration in patients with acromegaly

      ea0015p238
    • BMP2 effects on Id1 expression and cell proliferation in L[beta]T2 cells are receptor specific

      ea0015p239
    • The short and long-term effect of growth hormone (GH) replacement therapy on quality of life in adults with severe growth hormone deficiency

      ea0015p240
    • Case report: recurrent lymphocytic hypophysitis in pregnancy

      ea0015p241
    • Macroprolactin: role of serial measurement through pregnancy

      ea0015p242
    • Pulmonary fibrosis in association with cabergoline therapy for macroprolactinoma

      ea0015p243
    • Discordant stimulated growth hormone (GH) responses in cranially irradiated adult cancer survivors may occur in the presence of normal GH status: compensated GH deficiency

      ea0015p244
    • A pituitary mass presenting post-partum: the management challenge

      ea0015p245
    • Residual adverse vascular risk and oxidative stress in treated adult panhypopituitarism

      ea0015p246
    • Cyclical Cushing's: a diagnostic challenge

      ea0015p247
    • Resolution of acromegaly after pituitary infarction

      ea0015p248
    • Altered peripartum adrenal function and poor pregnancy outcome in the female rats given reduced dietary iron

      ea0015p249
    • 'And they're off and running...to the loo!'

      ea0015p250
    • Metastatic deposits from a pituitary adenoma 36 years after an initial presentation

      ea0015p251
    • Adjustment for macroprolactin: an integral part of laboratory assessment of hyperprolactinaemia

      ea0015p252
    • A comparison of endoscopic and microscopic endonasal transsphenoidal hypophysectomy in a single centre

      ea0015p253
    • Early polyuria and diabetes insipidus (DI) following transsphenoidal surgery and their relationship to chronic DI

      ea0015p254
    • A case of secondary adrenal insufficiency

      ea0015p255
    • Post-operative hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism

      ea0015p256
    • Targeting growth hormone by RNA Interference: implications for acromegaly

      ea0015p257
    • Monitoring acromegaly disease activity with growth hormone and insulin like growth factor-I in 501 patients

      ea0015p258
    • Pituitary function and vision following surgical intervention for suprasellar meningiomas

      ea0015p259
    • Predictors of response to medical therapy in patients with acromegaly

      ea0015p260
    • Effect of radiotherapy and pituitary dysfunction on mortality in patients with acromegaly

      ea0015p261
    • Transcriptional regulation of the human guanylyl cyclase-B (GC-B) promoter in gonadotroph and somatotroph cell lines

      ea0015p262
    • Endoscopic transphenoidal pituitary surgery: results in 21 consecutive patients with Cushing's disease

      ea0015p263
    • Mechanism of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) stimulated phosphorylation of ERK-MAPK in pituitary GH3 somatotrophs

      ea0015p264
    • On the origin and nature of big prolactin

      ea0015p265
    • An audit of pituitary dynamic testing for adult patients at University College Hospital London (UCLH) during 2006

      ea0015p266
    • Pituitary radiotherapy and cerebral blood flow: a transcranial Doppler in vivo investigation

      ea0015p267
    • Nelson's syndrome! is chemotherapy useful?

      ea0015p268
    • Homologous and heterologous desensitization of guanylyl cyclase-B (GC-B) receptor in GH3 somatotrophs: mechanisms to control the effects of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP)

      ea0015p269
    • A single centre audit of the impact of 24 months titrated GH replacement in hypopituitary adults

      ea0015p270
    • Molecular and functional components of a gonadotroph natriuretic peptide system in [alpha] T3-1 and L[beta]T2 cells

      ea0015p271
    • Radiation-induced hypothalamic-pituitary damage in long term survivors of primary brain tumours is reflected by endocrine dysfunction and impaired health-related quality of life

      ea0015p272
    • Critical evaluation of the diagnostic utility of the simplified intramuscular glucagon stimulation test (IMGST)

      ea0015p273
    • Use of the morning urinary cortisol to creatinine ratio in the diagnosis of mild Cushing's disease in patients with discordant test results

      ea0015p274
    • Isolated growth hormone deficiency with anterior pituitary hypoplasia and undescended posterior pituitary

      ea0015p275
  • Reproduction
  • • Early female sexual differentiation in humans is androgen-responsive

      ea0015p276
    • Diagnostic and therapeutic implications of using calculated free testosterone in men with low-normal total testosterone levels

      ea0015p277
    • Antimullerian hormone as a predictor of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome

      ea0015p278
    • A randomised trial comparing a low carbohydrate diet and nutrient-balanced low glycaemic index diet on body weight, hyperandrogenism and cardiovascular risk factors in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

      ea0015p279
    • A comparison between rimonabant and metformin in reducing metabolic parameters including hyperandrogenemia in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome: a randomised open labelled parallel study

      ea0015p280
    • Pre-analytical factors affecting measurement of plasma kisspeptin by radioimmunoassay

      ea0015p281
    • A randomised clinical trial of the effects of spearmint herbal tea on hirsutism in females with polycystic ovarian syndrome

      ea0015p282
    • Rimonabant is more effective in patients with metabolic syndrome compared to patients without metabolic syndrome in polycystic ovary syndrome

      ea0015p283
    • Changes in lipid profile and hs-CRP in polycystic ovarian syndrome after treatment with metformin, orlistat and pioglitazone

      ea0015p284
    • The endocrinology of long-life batteries!

      ea0015p285
    • Global adiposity rather than abnormal regional fat distribution characterises women with polycystic ovary syndrome

      ea0015p286
    • A study of the evaluation of elevated testosterone levels in women in a District General Hospital

      ea0015p287
    • Association of variants within the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene and polycystic ovary syndrome

      ea0015p288
    • Reduced expression of insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) protein in oocytes of polycystic ovaries

      ea0015p289
    • A profile of the prostanoids produced by human pregnant uterine tissue in vitro

      ea0015p290
    • Effects of cannabinoid antagonist-induced weight loss in polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) patients

      ea0015p291
    • Testosterone and the androgen receptor CAG repeat polymorphism are correlated with leptin in men

      ea0015p292
    • Desensitisation of oxytocin receptors with labour-onset in isolated human myometrium

      ea0015p293
    • ERR[alpha] (NR3B1) expression in the human endometrium: functional consequences on the regulation of energy metabolism

      ea0015p294
    • Expression of placental oligosaccharides in pregnancies complicated by type1 diabetes

      ea0015p295
    • Hormonal regulation of 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11[beta]HSD) enzyme activities in boar test is and caput epididymidis

      ea0015p296
    • Clinical experience of Nebido: monitoring the efficacy and safety of intramuscular testosterone undecanoate in hypogonadal men

      ea0015p297
  • Steroids
  • • Single serum cortisol level at sixty minutes during synacthen test: a reliable and cost effective approach

      ea0015p298
    • Antioxidant activity of biotransformed sex hormones facilitated by Bacillus stearothermophilus

      ea0015p299
    • Assessment of optimum hydrocortisone replacement therapy in patients with adrenal insufficiency

      ea0015p300
    • Development and validation of highly sensitive and specific enzyme immunosorbant assays for deoxycorticosterone and corticosterone: application to urine samples from cyp11b1 knockout mice

      ea0015p301
    • Development and validation of a highly sensitive and specific enzyme immunosorbant assay for aldosterone: application to urine samples from cyp11b1 knockout mice

      ea0015p302
    • Mechanisms of altered glucocorticoid metabolism and adrenal insufficiency in cholestatic liver disease

      ea0015p303
    • Steroid induced osteoporosis: are we doing enough to protect the bones

      ea0015p304
    • Testosterone levels in hypogonadal men treated with Nebido[R] is influenced by age, body composition and baseline testosterone

      ea0015p305
    • The novel role of vitamin D in the fight against gram negative bacterial meningitis

      ea0015p306
    • When is 'malignant' not malignant?

      ea0015p307
    • Adrenal emergency is a regular event for treated Addison's patients

      ea0015p308
    • Use of 60 min cortisol levels decreases sensitivity of short synacthen tests

      ea0015p309
    • Characterisation of 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 in human ocular and orbital fibroblasts.

      ea0015p310
    • Testosterone increases kidney weight in orchiectomized male Wistar rats but not dihydrotestosterone

      ea0015p311
    • Differences in quality of life between three replacement therapies in adrenal insufficiency

      ea0015p312
    • Measurement of salivary cortisol with LC-MS/MS in patients with suspected adrenal pathology

      ea0015p313
    • Suppression of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis in asthmatics on inhaled steroids treated with itraconazole

      ea0015p314
    • Long-term storage of blood spots: is retesting for newborn 17 OH-progesterone reliable?

      ea0015p315
    • Bilateral adrenal infarction, a complication of myelodysplastic syndrome?

      ea0015p316
    • Bioavailable estradiol in men: relationship with age and testosterone

      ea0015p317
    • Functional and structural characterisation of three CYP21A2 mutations associated with simple virilising and non classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia

      ea0015p318
    • Sleep and cortisol profiles in healthy volunteers using an automated blood sampling machine

      ea0015p319
    • Differential effects of glucocorticoids on fibroblasts: mechanisms underlying the adverse features of Cushing's

      ea0015p320
    • Partial 21-hydroxylase deficiency: diagnostic role of urinary steroid profiling

      ea0015p321
    • Serine phosphorylation of IRS-1 as a mechanism of glucocorticoid induced insulin resistance in mouse C2C12 myotubes

      ea0015p322
    • Antiphospholipid syndrome: a rare cause of adrenal insufficiency

      ea0015p323
    • Adrenal function testing in 273 patients with severe sepsis reveals baseline cortisol as a reliable predictor of outcome

      ea0015p324
    • Heritability of plasma aldosterone levels and genetic variation association with the aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) and 11beta-hydroxylase (CYP11B1) genes

      ea0015p325
    • The cell surface expression of MC2R mutations found in familial glucocorticoid deficiency

      ea0015p326
    • A paracrine role for 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 and glucocorticoids in the murine pancreatic islet

      ea0015p327
    • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is associated with transcriptional dysregulation of 11[beta]-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 leading to excess intrahepatic glucocorticoid exposure

      ea0015p328
    • Use of placebo for withdrawal of steroid therapy is contraindicated in adrenal insufficiency

      ea0015p329
    • Salivary cortisol: a possible regulator of salivary annexin 1

      ea0015p330
    • Early truncation of the human CYP17A1 protein results in severe neonatal adrenal insufficiency

      ea0015p331
    • HIV and adrenal insufficiency

      ea0015p332
  • Thyroid
  • • Differences in maternal and fetal serum thyroid hormone concentrations between non-pregnant, normal and pre-eclamptic pregnancy

      ea0015p333
    • The value of the anti-thyroid peroxidase antibodies measurement in the diagnosis of Graves' disease

      ea0015p334
    • Cholestasis induced by carbimazole: a case report

      ea0015p335
    • Effects of dietary soy phytoestrogens on thyroid function and insulin resistance in patients with subclinical hypothyroidism: a double blind crossover study

      ea0015p336
    • Thyroid function tests: rarely justified in the acutely ill

      ea0015p337
    • Primary triiodonaemic hypothyroidism: a case report

      ea0015p338
    • Prevalence of diabetes following intravenous methylprednisolone therapy for Graves' ophthalmopathy

      ea0015p339
    • How useful is post-operative PTH at predicting hypocalcaemia following thyroidectomy?

      ea0015p340
    • Specialist endocrine care for all hyperthyroid patients?

      ea0015p341
    • Triumvirate contribution of ultrasound characteristics, clinical risk and TSH in predicting neoplasia in thyroid nodules

      ea0015p342
    • Successful discontinuation of treatment after 16 years of replacement therapy with thyroxine in congenital hypothyroidism

      ea0015p343
    • Gynaecomastia as a sole manifestation of asymptomatic hyperthyroidism

      ea0015p344
    • Fixed and calculated doses of radioiodine achieve similar cure rate for hyperthyroidism

      ea0015p345
    • Can placental iodine accumulation and storage compensate for inadequate iodine intake?

      ea0015p346
    • Use of thyroglobulin antibody measurement in detecting recurrence in differentiated thyroid carcinoma

      ea0015p347
    • Expression of thyroid hormone transporters in human placenta and changes with intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)

      ea0015p348
    • Use of rectal anti-thyroid medications as an alternative to oral route

      ea0015p349
    • Does cord blood selenium correlate with maternal anti-TPO-titers?

      ea0015p350
    • Discrepancy between free thyroid hormones and thyrotropin values in patient with Hashimotos thyroiditis

      ea0015p351
    • Hippocampal memory deficits in hypothyroidism

      ea0015p352
    • Hashi toxicosis presenting with severe active thyroid eye disease

      ea0015p353
    • Hypo-osmolar hyponatremia and orthostatic hypotension as the chief symptom in primary hypothyroidism

      ea0015p354
    • Sunitinib induced hypothyroidism in gastrointestinal stromal tumours

      ea0015p355
    • The follow up of radioiodine treated hyperthyroid patients: the Bradford experience

      ea0015p356
    • Thyroid disorders in pregnancy

      ea0015p357
    • Familial dysalbuminaemic hyperthyroxinaemia: a persistent diagnostic problem

      ea0015p358
    • Improvements in quality of life in hypothyroid patients taking Armour thyroid

      ea0015p359
    • The one-stop thyroid clinic: what's the rush?

      ea0015p360
    • Carbimazole induced agranulocytosis: an unusual manifestation

      ea0015p361
    • Failure of TSH suppression in patients with thyroid cancer

      ea0015p362
    • Abstract unavailable

      ea0015p363
    • Hypothyroidism and hyponatraemia: diagnostic relevance of ADH measurement

      ea0015p364
    • A different relationship between thyroid function and mood in people on thyroxine compared to the general population: results from the HUNT study

      ea0015p365
    • Radioactive iodine (I131) treatment in thyrotoxicosis- audit of local experience

      ea0015p366
    • My brother and I-differential tissue sensitivity to thyroid hormones in thyroid hormone resistance

      ea0015p367
    • Patient perception of aetiology of Graves' orbitopathy

      ea0015p368
    • Raised serum FT4 and inappropriately detectable serum TSH: evaluation of recommendations from the UK TFT guidelines

      ea0015p369
    • A trial of radioiodine with and without adjuvant lithium therapy in the treatment of hyperthyroidism

      ea0015p370
    • Use of a telephone clinic to follow up patients post-radioiodine treatment

      ea0015p371
    • Thyriod surgery for patients 70 years old and over

      ea0015p372
    • An unusual cause of a thyroid mass

      ea0015p373
    • A retrospective audit of radioiodine treatment for thyrotoxicosis

      ea0015p374
    • Thyrotoxic psychosis associated with fluctuation in thyroid status

      ea0015p375
    • Management of hypothyroidism in joint antenatal endocrine clinic

      ea0015p376
    • TSH-secreting pituitary adenoma (TSH-oma) with coexistent autoimmune hypothyroidism

      ea0015p377
    • Specificity of first-line tests for the diagnosis of Graves' disease: assessment in a large series of hyperthyroid patients

      ea0015p378
    • Does the PTPN2 gene exhibit disease specific associations for Graves' disease?

      ea0015p379
    • A role for 3-iodothyronamine in regulation of adipocyte lipolysis

      ea0015p380
    • Case report: type 3 amiodarone induced thyrotoxicosis

      ea0015p381
    • Propylthiouracil (PTU) induced agranulocytosis in pregnancy

      ea0015p382
    • Audit on thyroid function tests in acutely unwell patients

      ea0015p383
    • Rhabdomyolysis and acute renal failure due to hypothyroidism

      ea0015p384
    • Risk of co-existing autoimmune diseases in 3309 index cases with auto-immune thyroid disease and their relatives

      ea0015p385
    • Characteristics of subclinical hyperthyroidism in secondary care

      ea0015p386
    • Treatment of hyperthyroidism with 400 MBq I-131

      ea0015p387
    • Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNA) of the thyroid gland: a district general hospital experience

      ea0015p388
    • Regulation of VEGF and PlGF production by human thyroid follicular cells

      ea0015p389
    • Expression and subcellular localisation of VEGFRs in human thyroid follicular cells

      ea0015p390
    • Mechanisms regulating plasminogen activator production from human thyroid follicular cells

      ea0015p391
    • Audit of outcomes of radioiodine treatment for benign thyroid disease

      ea0015p392
    • Severe sight-threatening thyroid eye disease presenting de novo in an euthyroid pregnant woman

      ea0015p393
    • Recurrent Riedel's thyroiditis as a part of multifocal fibrosclerosis

      ea0015p394
    • An uncommon cause of thyrotoxicosis and thyroid eye disease

      ea0015p395
    • Subclinical thyroid disorders in ischaemic heart disease: audit of clinical practice within rapid access chest pain clinic

      ea0015p396
    • Reversible thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy

      ea0015p397
    • High versus low dose of 131I and the impact of carbimazole on subsequent radioiodine therapy outcome in thyrotoxicosis

      ea0015p398
    • Thyroxine replacement in patients on peritoneal dialysis

      ea0015p399
    • Predictors of recurrence in Graves' disease in Oxford

      ea0015p400
  • Novartis prize posters
  • • The calcilytic agent NPS2143 rectifies hypocalcaemia in a mouse model, Nuf, that is due to an activating calcium-sensing-receptor (CaSR) mutation: Relevance to Autosomal Dominant Hypocalcaemia with Hypercalciuria

      ea0015np1
    • Effect of thyroid status on the skeleton in post-menopausal women: the OPUS study

      ea0015np2