Christine Spitzweg, John C. Morris
Active transport of iodide into the thyroid gland is a crucial and rate-limiting step in the biosynthesis of thyroid hormones which play an important role in the metabolism, growth and maturation of a variety of organ systems, in particular the nervous system1. Although, iodide transport into the thyroid gland has been known …
Dimitra Vasiliadi, Yannis Gratsias, Stylianos Tsagarakis, Eythimia Botoula, Panagiotis Trivizas, Nick Thalassinos, Paraskevi Moutsatsou
Glucocorticoids (GC) affect virtually all organ systems, acting mainly via the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The immune system is the best characterized tissue for assessing GC sensitivity. It is well established that the immune system GC sensitivity varies widely between normal subjects …
Fotios Pavlatos
The extremely sad news of the passing away of Professor Francis Greenspan, one of my very best and most faithful old friends, was a great blow to me and, needless to say, to all of us who had the good fortune and the great privilege to know him …
Heitor Oliveira Santos
The new study by Jacob Wilson et al. demonstrated that a nutritional intervention based on the ketogenic diet (KD) in resistance-trained athletes of college age showed an increase of total testosterone compared to individuals who followed a Western diet (WD) protocol with the same resistance training. The total testosterone increase in the KD group …
Helen Thomopoulou
Fuller Albright (F.A.) was born on January 12th 1900 in Buffalo N.Y. into a very wealty family. His father donated the Albright Memorial Library Building in Scranton Pennsylvania and the Albright Museum in Buffalo and was a benefactor to many other institutions…
Christos S. Bartsocas
Among the several causes of short stature is pycnodysostosis, also known as “Toulouse-Lautrec’s disease”. Robert Weismann-Netter is credited with the first description of the disorder which later became known as pycnodysostosis. Only a few, however, know that pycnodysostosis was also possibly Aesop’s disease …
Gesthimani Mintziori, Dimitrios G. Goulis
It is with great interest that we read the detailed and well enunciated comparison between the American Thyroid Association (ATA) and the Endocrine Society (ES) practice guidelines for the screening and treatment of hypothyroidism during pregnancy that was published in the last issue of Hormones …