ALLMedicine™ Hormone Action Center

Feb 25th, 2023 - Interest in investigating the role of the growth hormone/insulin-like growth factor 1 axis in the initiation and progression of experimentally induced carcinomas has arisen due to several observations in the human population. First, subjects with ...

Feb 2nd, 2023 - Thyroid hormone (TH) has a profound effect on energy metabolism and systemic homeostasis. Adipose tissues are crucial for maintaining whole-body homeostasis, however, whether TH regulates systemic metabolic homeostasis through its action on the ad...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Background: Thyroid hormones play a key role in differentiation and metabolism and are known regulators of gene expression through both genomic and epigenetic processes including DNA methylation. The aim of this study was to examine associations b...

Jan 28th, 2023 - There are many previous reports on the effects of ethanol on physiological function, including reports of elevated blood estrogen levels in women who drank alcohol. However, the mechanism of ethanol's effects on ovarian functions, such as follicle...

Jan 12th, 2023 - There is longstanding interest in the role of androgens in the aetiology of prostate cancer, one of the most common malignancies worldwide. In this review, we reflect on the ways that knowledge of prostate development and hormone action have catal...

Dec 10th, 2020 - OUTLINE: Patients undergo clinical evaluations over 12 months including physical exam and vital signs, waist to hip circumference, medical history and events, laboratory evaluations, imaging evaluations, cognitive function evaluations, gait assess...

Sep 28th, 2020 - In human adults thyroid hormone action plays a critical role in the modulation of metabolism and the function of virtually all organ/systems. The specificity of the hormonal action is ultimately the result of the interaction of the active hormone,...

Feb 7th, 2020 - Introduction The ability to connect previous learned basic-sciences concepts to patient's clinical features can help improve clinical reasoning. While experts use several shortcuts to reach a correct diagnosis, such as clinical presentation patter...

Apr 17th, 2019 - Hypotheses being tested: It is hypothesized that vitamin D, in a dose-dependent manner, will suppress parathyroid hormone action, resulting in less bone turnover, and decreased cortical porosity, leading to improved bone strength as assessed by fi...

May 18th, 2018 - Preeclampsia affects 7-10% of all pregnancies and is directly responsible for 50,000 maternal deaths and 900,000 perinatal deaths each year. Preeclampsia remains unpredictable and incurable except through premature delivery of the fetus. It is ess...

May 6th, 2021 - Girls in late stages of puberty who had elevated levels of body fat showed unusually high levels of several hormones that could contribute to an earlier age of menarche and also slow breast development, according to data from 90 girls who spanned.

Dec 20th, 2020 - Bryan R. Haugen, MD, Head, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, describes topics and features of the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA), ...

Dec 15th, 2020 - Many types of plastics pose an unrecognized threat to human health by leaching endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and a new report from the Endocrine Society and the International Pollutants Elimination Network presents their dangers and risks. curto.

Aug 30th, 2016 - New American Thyroid Association evidence-based guidelines on hyperthyroidism address "new paradigms" for evaluating thyrotoxicosis, the management of Graves' hyperthyroidism in general and during pregnancy, and the preparation of patients for thy...

Oct 9th, 2014 - Certain industrial chemicals commonly found in low levels in the environment can infiltrate the placenta during pregnancy and affect thyroid hormone activity in placental tissue, a new study reports. And since thyroid hormones play a key role in f...