Response to Turner 2017

Reply to Turner and Kerber.

TO THE EDITOR: This letter is a response to the commentary by Drs. Ralph J. Turner and Irwin J. Kerber (7) regarding my review article (8) in Physiological Genomics. I thank Drs. Turner and Kerber for their interest and encouraging remarks on the review article. I applaud their enthusiasm in applying basic research to clinical practice and am pleased that my paper provided some insights into th...

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: Response to More et al. (2017)

Response to three years of growth hormone therapy in girls with Turner syndrome

PURPOSE Short stature is the most common finding in patients with Turner syndrome. Improving the final adult height in these patients is a challenge both for the patients and physicians. We investigated the clinical response of patients to growth hormone treatment for height improvement over the period of three years. METHODS Review of medical records from 27 patients with Turner syndrome tre...

Determining the Nature of Prefrontal Cortex Recruitment After Traumatic Brain Injury: A Response to Turner

IdentIfyIng prefrontal recruItment In order to determine what prefrontal cortex is doing (or doing differently) after head trauma, several authors have emphasized examining the relationship between brain activation and task performance (Perlstein et al., 2004; Newsome et al., 2007; Hillary, 2008). Isolating this relationship permits identification of those neural systems that wax and wane in co...

Factors predicting the response to growth hormone therapy in Taiwanese patients with Turner syndrome

Background Turner syndrome (TS) occurs in one 2000-2500 live female births and is associated with short stature, premature ovarian failure, and a range of other phenotypic features. Girls with TS achieve an average adult height 20cm shorter than their mid-parenteral height if they didn’t receive treatment. Growth hormone (GH) treatment was associated with highly significant gains in growth and ...