Nuclear Medicine and Endocrinology

Clinical Medicine: Endocrinology and Diabetes

Objectives: To investigate the role of insulin resistance (IR) and insulin plasma levels (IRI) in patients with chronic liver disease (CLD) and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Methods: We recruited the following patients: 125 with HCC, 128 with liver cirrhosis (LC) and 133 with chronic hepatitis C (CHC). IR was assessed by the HOMA-IR method. To define IR and hyperinsulinemia we selected as a c...

Precision Medicine for Endocrinology

In the recent decades, major biotechnological advances have been achieved following the sudden escalation of disease-related molecular information, with the potential for greatly advancing patient care. The human genome was depicted in year 2000, followed by the completion of the human genome project in 2003. Scientists have ignited a firestorm of breakthroughs in genomic information, by laying...

precision medicine for endocrinology

Economic Sanctions on Iran and Nuclear Medicine

"It is not a wise choice!", this was the reaction of my father when I applied for nuclear medicine residency program 26 years ago. The old retired officer continued that hi-tech nuclear medicine is dependent on multiple advanced sections that may not be easily available especially in the developing countries. Now he is not alive to see that political misconducts have added fuel to the fire. Glo...

The new dimension of endocrinology: nuclear/intracellular endocrinology.

sideration as DNA methylation patterns may be reversible and changeable under certain physiological and pathological conditions. This idea is supported by the fact that differentiated cells are still potent enough to be converted into iPS cells, presumably coupling with altered DNA methylation pattern. Beyond canonical epigenomic modification, the current view of the epigenome includes histone ...