Variations in the hormonal milieu after menopause may influence neural processes concerned with cognition, cognitive aging, and mood, but findings are inconsistent. In particular, cognitive effects of estradiol may vary with time since menopause, but this prediction has not been assessed directly using serum hormone concentrations. We studied 643 healthy postmenopausal women not using hormone t...

Seventeen young women with clinically confirmed mammary dysplasia and six age-matched controls were treated with atocopherol. Serum samples collected during the luteal phase of each woman at monthly intervals for the 4-month duration of the study were analyzed for serum luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, and prolactin concentrations by radioim munoassay and for lipoprotein level...

Seventeen young women with clinically confirmed mammary dysplasia and six age-matched controls were treated with alpha-tocopherol. Serum samples collected during the luteal phase of each woman at monthly intervals for the 4-month duration of the study were analyzed for serum luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, and prolactin concentrations by radioimmunoassay and for lipoprotein l...

introduction: determination of thyrotropin, total and free thyroxine and triiodothyronine are widely used as diagnostic methods for thyroid function evaluation. there have been numerous reports of interferences in thyroid hormone immunoassays. herein, a prominent positive interference is reported for a radioimmunoassay kit of total triiodothyronine. materials and methods: in this study, a total...

abstract background: to determine daily calcium, vitamin d intake and serum biochemical findings of rickets in adolescent girls. methods: a total of 414 healthy adolescent student girls aged 11-15 years were evaluated from various areas of tehran, iran with different socioeconomic status. a randomized, cross-sectional, prospective and descriptive study was undertaken for calculation of daily ca...

Circulating levels of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) are elevated in patients with early chronic kidney disease (CKD) and are postulated to cause low blood levels of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, as well as normal phosphate levels. In order to provide more direct evidence for the pathophysiological role of FGF23 in the settings of mineral ion homeostasis typically seen in early CKD, we studied ...

BACKGROUND Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients are more prone to abnormal production of some regulatory peptides. In these patients, studies on the serum levels of leptin and ghrelin are controversial. This study aims to investigate serum levels of leptin and ghrelin and their correlation with metabolic and endocrine indices in PCOS. MATERIALS AND METHODS This case-control study was con...

The skeleton is the most common metastatic organ in patients with prostate cancer (PCa). Non-invasive biomarkers that can facilitate the detection and monitoring of bone metastases are highly desirable. We designed this study to assess the expression patterns of serum miR-141 in patients with bone-metastatic PCa. Serum samples were collected to measure the miR-141 level in 56 patients, includin...