It is well known that the synthesis of fat by mammalian tissues is influenced by hormones. For example Stetten and Boxer (1) showed that the synthesis of fat is markedly impaired in the alloxan-diabetic rat. Stetten and Klein (2) found that insulin increased the conversion of carbohydrate to fat in the normal rabbit. It was first demonstrated by Bloch and Kramer (3) that insulin stimulates fatt...

Celestona (betamethasone-disodiumphosphate) and Celeston (betamethasone-acetat + betamethasone-disodiumphosphate) given intramuscularly to pregnant women in order to reduce the frequency of respiratory distress syndrome does not reduce the occipitofrontal circumference of the newborn infants. Before the results from the actual work were available an impeding effect of the evolution of the brain...

Megestrol-Acetate (MA) has activity after progressive disease (PD) on aromatase inhibitors, providing a control rate of 40% and duration clinical benefit 10 months. Ligand-bound progesterone receptor modulates estrogen (ER) reprograms ER-regulated transcription in breast cancer (BC), leading to regression tumour xenografts. MEGA trial [NCT03024580] aimed evaluate modulation steroid advanced BC....

The gamma band response is thought to be a key neural signature of information processing in the mammalian brain, yet little is known about how age-related maturation influences the γ-band response. Recent MRI-based studies have shown that brain maturation is accompanied by clear structural changes in both gray and white matter, yet the correspondence of these changes to brain function is uncle...

Recent studies (e.g. Blackmore, P. F., Beebe, S. J., Danforth, D. R., and Alexander, N.) (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 1376-1380) have shown that in human sperm, progesterone produces a rapid increase in intracellular free calcium ([Ca2+]i) and an induction of the acrosome reaction (e.g. Osman, R. A., Andria, M. L., Jones, A. D., and Meizel, S. (1989) Biochem, Biophys. Res. Commun. 160, 828-833). ...

One of the components that play an important role in maintaining battery security is separator. The separator plays a preventing short circuits due to direct exchange between anode and cathode cell. To avoid leakage or circuit during process, must have good mechanical properties. For this reason, modifications are needed improve characteristics modification process was carried out by mixing Poy...

Body wasting in the context of chronic illness is associated with reduced quality of life and impaired survival. Recent clinical trials have investigated different approaches to improve patients' skeletal muscle mass and strength, exercise capacity, and survival in the context of cachexia and body wasting, many of them in patients with cancer. The aim of this article was to summarize clinical t...

To the Editor: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a protein produced almost exclusively by the prostate. Although various tissues in females have been found to produce very small amounts of PSA, serum PSA levels in females are quite low and are measurable only with ultrasensitive PSA immunoassays. In a study of 1064 women, the highest serum PSA levels were less than 1 μg per liter, and only 1.5...

BACKGROUND Endometrial stromal sarcomas (ESSs) are rare, indolent tumors with high recurrence rates. Management includes surgery and hormonal therapy given high estrogen and progesterone receptor (ER/PR) expression. CASE A pre-menopausal patient with stage II ESSs (ER +/PR +) underwent primary surgery followed by adjuvant megestrol. Recurrence in the bladder/upper vagina (ER +/PR -) was diagn...

A 20-year-old obese Thai woman with polycystic ovary syndrome and clinical stage I well-differentiated endometrial carcinoma denied surgical staging. Chest X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging of the whole abdomen suggested neither distance metastasis nor local invasion of the cancer. After 3 months of systemic progestin therapy with megestrol acetate (MA) 480 mg/day, the endometrial carcinoma ...