Athanasios Christoforidis, Eirini Kazantzidou, Ioanna Tsatra, Haido Tsantali, George Koliakos, Emmanouil Hatzipantelis, George Katzos, Miranda Athanassiou-Metaxa
OBJECTIVE: Osteopenia/osteoporosis of multi-factorial pathogenetic mechanism is reported to be a significant cause of morbidity in adult patients with β-thalassaemia major. Even in young patients, decreased Bone Mineral Density (BMD) values are a consistent finding in the literature. This study was performed in order to assess BMD …
Anastassios Philippou, Maria Maridaki, Roxane Tenta, Michael Koutsilieris
OBJECTIVE: Mechanically overloaded muscle and its subsequent damage are strong stimuli for eliciting acute hormonal changes, while the muscle adaptation which occurs following exercise-induced muscle damage may involve complex hormonal responses before the completion of muscle regeneration. The purpose of this study was to investigate systemic responses of various hormones, as well as secreted proteins that are exercise-regulated and associated with muscle adaptation …