Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects 10% of women and is associated with a 2-3fold risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D), hypertension, fatty liver and cardiovascular disease. Androgen excess has been implicated as a major contributor to metabolic risk in PCOS. We aimed to identify PCOS sub-types with distinct androgen profiles and compare their cardiometabolic risk.Methods: We cross-sectionally studied 488 tre...

Disruption of circadian regulation could trigger and exacerbate obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular disease. Experiments on rats proved that the deleterious effects of chronodisruption are extremely severe, especially during early developmental stages. Only part of them could be prevented by maternal melatonin administration, suggesting that other pathophysiological mechanisms may be involved. To investigate the role of other mechanisms that might contribute ...

Background: Millions of men worldwide take anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) to boost muscle growth, but risk psychosis, cardiomyopathy, stroke and death. Users avoid stopping AAS because they are fearful of low testosterone symptoms including sexual dysfunction, depression and suicidality. To avoid these symptoms, men often illicitly self-medicate a 2–12-week course of drugs including selective oestrogen receptor modulators to boost testicular function ...

Background: Kisspeptin is a potent regulator of GnRH neurons with potential to treat reproductive and psychosexual disorders. However, administration is limited to the subcutaneous or intravenous routes. These invasive routes limit clinical development. Herein, we comprehensively examine the translational potential of intranasal kisspeptin administration for the first-time using rodent, human and pharmaceutical studies.Methods:</...

Luteinising hormone (LH) and the luteinising hormone receptor (LHR) have key roles in steroidogenesis and ovulation, thus are central targets for fertility treatment. The LHR is a G protein-coupled receptor that predominantly signals through Gαs, although under conditions of high ligand concentration and/or high receptor density, as occurs during the mid-cycle LH surge, can also signal via Gαq/11. Yet, how LHR delineates signal pathway activation to coordinate pleiot...

Follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) is a heterodimeric glycoprotein hormone, crucial for regulating female reproduction. Its actions are mediated through FSHR, a Class A G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), which primarily couples to Gs/cAMP/PKA pathway to modulate ovarian follicle growth, granulosa cell proliferation, and estrogen production. In addition to dogmatic functions of FSH in reproduction, there is increasing evidence that FSH can act on extragonadal tissues. Specifica...