Endocrinology

Glutathione peroxidase-1 gene (GPX1) variants, oxidative stress and risk of kidney complications in people with type 1 diabetes.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Glutathione peroxidase (GPX) is a class of antioxidant enzymes that catalyze the...

A case of minimal change nephrotic syndrome with hypothyroidism deterioration.

A 73-year-old woman with Graves' disease underwent total thyroidectomy and was being treated with le...

A case of primary adrenal diffuse large B cell lymphoma presenting with severe hyponatremia.

We herein report a case of primary adrenal lymphoma with severe hyponatremia. The patient was admitt...

A linear functional strategy for regularized ranking.

Regularization schemes are frequently used for performing ranking tasks. This topic has been intensi...

Clinical Usefulness of F-18 FDG PET/CT in Papillary Thyroid Cancer with Negative Radioiodine Scan and Elevated Thyroglobulin Level or Positive Anti-thyroglobulin Antibody.

PURPOSE: Elevated thyroglobulin (Tg) levels, along with a negative radioiodine scan, present a clini...

Ginsenoside Rg1 Improves In vitro-produced Embryo Quality by Increasing Glucose Uptake in Porcine Blastocysts.

Ginsenoside Rg1 is a natural compound with various efficacies and functions. It has beneficial effec...

Intact parathormone measurement 1 hour after total thyroidectomy as a predictor of symptomatic hypocalcemia.

OBJECTIVE: Postoperative iPTH assay may predict significant hypocalcemia after thyroid surgery. The ...

Pharmacokinetic and bioavailability study of angeloylgomisin H in rat plasma by UPLC-MS/MS.

Angeloylgomisin H, as a major lignin in the fruits, was reported to have the potential to improve in...

Bioequivalence and comparative pharmacodynamics of insulin lispro 200 U/mL relative to insulin lispro (Humalog®) 100 U/mL.

Insulin lispro 200 U/mL (IL200) is a new strength formulation of insulin lispro (Humalog®, IL100), d...

Robots and type 1 diabetes.

Stress Testing of an Artificial Pancreas System With Pizza and Exercise Leads to Improvements in the System's Fuzzy Logic Controller.

BACKGROUND: Under controlled conditions, the Dose Safety artificial pancreas (AP) system controller,...

Neural-Network Scoring Functions Identify Structurally Novel Estrogen-Receptor Ligands.

The magnitude of the investment required to bring a drug to the market hinders medical progress, req...

Classifying Stress From Heart Rate Variability Using Salivary Biomarkers as Reference.

An accurate and noninvasive stress assessment from human physiology is a strenuous task. In this pap...

A Soft Computing Approach to Kidney Diseases Evaluation.

Kidney renal failure means that one's kidney have unexpectedly stopped functioning, i.e., once chron...

Classification of Medical Datasets Using SVMs with Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms Based on Endocrine-Based Particle Swarm Optimization and Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms.

The classification and analysis of data is an important issue in today's research. Selecting a suita...

A fuzzy-ontology-oriented case-based reasoning framework for semantic diabetes diagnosis.

OBJECTIVE: Case-based reasoning (CBR) is a problem-solving paradigm that uses past knowledge to inte...

Participatory approach to the development of a knowledge base for problem-solving in diabetes self-management.

OBJECTIVE: To develop an expandable knowledge base of reusable knowledge related to self-management ...

Knowledge-Based Analysis for Detecting Key Signaling Events from Time-Series Phosphoproteomics Data.

Cell signaling underlies transcription/epigenetic control of a vast majority of cell-fate decisions....

Exposure to Aroclor-1254 impairs spindle assembly during mouse oocyte maturation.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as typical environmental estrogen disruptors, are a structurally-r...

White adipose tissue cells and the progression of cachexia: inflammatory pathways.

BACKGROUND: Cachexia is a systemic syndrome leading to body wasting, systemic inflammation, and to m...

Classification of diabetes maculopathy images using data-adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference classifier.

Prolonged diabetes retinopathy leads to diabetes maculopathy, which causes gradual and irreversible ...