Articles listed in blue may be of special interest to clinicians.

Special Articles:

Yoel Sadovsky and Stuart Adler

EDITORIAL: Selective Modulation of Estrogen Receptor Action
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 3-5. [Full Text]  

Akira Kuwahara, Masaharu Kamada, Minoru Irahara, Osamu Naka, Toshiyuki Yamashita, and Toshihiro Aono

CLINICAL CASE SEMINAR: Autoantibody against Testosterone in a Woman with Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 14-16. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Catherine M. Gordon, Joseph A. Majzoub, Debbie J. Marsh, John B. Mulliken, Bruce A. J. Ponder, Bruce G. Robinson, and Charis Eng

CLINICAL CASE SEMINAR: Four Cases of Mucosal Neuroma Syndrome: Multiple Endocrine Neoplasm 2B or Not 2B?
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 17-20. [Full Text]  

From the Clinical Research Centers:

G. A. Laughlin, C. E. Dominguez, and S. S. C. Yen

Nutritional and Endocrine-Metabolic Aberrations in Women with Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 25-32. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Adrian S. Dobs, Donald R. Hoover, Min-Chi Chen, and Richard Allen

Pharmacokinetic Characteristics, Efficacy, and Safety of Buccal Testosterone in Hypogonadal Males: A Pilot Study
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 33-39. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Original Studies:

Valerie L. Baker, Michael Draper, Sofia Paul, Sandy Allerheiligen, Michael Glant, Jan Shifren, and Robert B. Jaffe

Reproductive Endocrine and Endometrial Effects of Raloxifene Hydrochloride, a Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator, in Women with Regular Menstrual Cycles
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 6-13. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Gordon L. Klein, Steven E. Wolf, Craig B. Langman, Clifford J. Rosen, Subburaman Mohan, Bruce S. Keenan, Sina Matin, Christopher Steffen, Marc Nicolai, Dawn E. Sailer, and David N. Herndon

Effect of Therapy with Recombinant Human Growth Hormone on Insulin-Like Growth Factor System Components and Serum Levels of Biochemical Markers of Bone Formation in Children After Severe Burn Injury
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 21-24. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

L. Chiovato, E. Fiore, P. Vitti, R. Rocchi, T. Rago, D. Dokic, F. Latrofa, C. Mammoli, F. Lippi, C. Ceccarelli, and A. Pinchera

Outcome of Thyroid Function in Graves’ Patients Treated with Radioiodine: Role of Thyroid-Stimulating and Thyrotropin-Blocking Antibodies and of Radioiodine-Induced Thyroid Damage
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 40-46. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Nannette A. T. M. Huizenga, Jan W. Koper, Pieter de Lange, Huibert A. P. Pols, Ronald P. Stolk, Diederick E. Grobbee, Frank H. de Jong, and Steven W. J. Lamberts

Interperson Variability but Intraperson Stability of Baseline Plasma Cortisol Concentrations, and Its Relation to Feedback Sensitivity of the Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis to a Low Dose of Dexamethasone in Elderly Individuals
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 47-54. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Luisa Barzon, Carla Scaroni, Nicoletta Sonino, Francesco Fallo, Michele Gregianin, Corrado Macri’, and Marco Boscaro

Incidentally Discovered Adrenal Tumors: Endocrine and Scintigraphic Correlates
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 55-62. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Lewis S. Blevins, Jr., James H. Christy, Masheed Khajavi, and George T. Tindall

Outcomes of Therapy for Cushing’s Disease due to Adrenocorticotropin-Secreting Pituitary Macroadenomas
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 63-67. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Henning W. Woitge, Christa Scheidt-Nave, Christian Kissling, Gudrun Leidig-Bruckner, Kristina Meyer, Andreas Grauer, Stephan H. Scharla, Reinhard Ziegler, and Markus J. Seibel

Seasonal Variation of Biochemical Indexes of Bone Turnover: Results of a Population-Based Study
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 68-75. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ruben Alvero, Lorene Kimzey, Nancy Sebring, James Reynolds, Marion Loughran, Lynnette Nieman, and Beatriz R. Olson

Effects of Fasting on Neuroendocrine Function and Follicle Development in Lean Women
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 76-80. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Tarcisio Bianda, Yvonne Glatz, Roger Bouillon, Ernst Rudolf Froesch, and Christoph Schmid

Effects of Short-Term Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I (IGF-I) or Growth Hormone (GH) Treatment on Bone Metabolism and on Production of 1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol in GH-Deficient Adults
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 81-87. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Naomi Weintrob, Elliot Sprecher, Zeev Josefsberg, Clara Weininger, Yaffa Aurbach-Klipper, Daniel Lazard, Moshe Karp, and Athalia Pertzelan

Standard and Low-Dose Short Adrenocorticotropin Test Compared with Insulin-Induced Hypoglycemia for Assessment of the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Children with Idiopathic Multiple Pituitary Hormone Deficiencies
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 88-92. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Joseph L. Shaker, William R. Reinus, and Michael P. Whyte

Hepatitis C-Associated Osteosclerosis: Late Onset after Blood Transfusion in an Elderly Woman
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 93-98. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Vincenzo De Leo, Danila Lanzetta, Donato D’Antona, Antonio la Marca, and Giuseppe Morgante

Hormonal Effects of Flutamide in Young Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 99-102. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Francis de Zegher, Bernard Spitz, Greet Van den Berghe, Danielle Lemmens, Karin Vanweser, Katrien Keppens, and Cyril Y. Bowers

Postpartum Hyperprolactinemia and Hyporesponsiveness of Growth Hormone (GH) to GH-Releasing Peptide
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 103-106. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ross C. Cuneo, Steve Judd, Jennifer D. Wallace, Don Perry-Keene, Henry Burger, Sylvia Lim-Tio, Boyd Strauss, Jan Stockigt, Duncan Topliss, Frank Alford, L. Hew, Hans Bode, Ann Conway, David Handelsman, Stewart Dunn, Steve Boyages, N. Wah Cheung, and David Hurley

The Australian Multicenter Trial of Growth Hormone (GH) Treatment in GH-Deficient Adults
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 107-116. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Nuzhet O. Atuk, Catherine Stolle, John A. Owen, Jr., Johnson T. Carpenter, and Mary Lee Vance

Pheochromocytoma in von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Clinical Presentation and Mutation Analysis in a Large, Multigenerational Kindred
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 117-120. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yuji Hiromatsu, Damu Yang, Ikuyo Miyake, Mari Koga, Junko Kameo, Masayuki Sato, Yoichi Inoue, and Kyohei Nonaka

Nicotinamide Decreases Cytokine-Induced Activation of Orbital Fibroblasts from Patients with Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 121-124. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

C. H. Tengan, B. H. Kiyomoto, M. S. Rocha, V. L. S. Tavares, A. A. Gabbai, and C. T. Moraes

Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy and Hypoparathyrodism Associated with a Duplication and a Deletion of Mitochondrial Deoxyribonucleic Acid
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 125-129. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Knut Krohn, Dagmar Führer, Hans-Peter Holzapfel, and Ralf Paschke

Clonal Origin of Toxic Thyroid Nodules with Constitutively Activating Thyrotropin Receptor Mutations
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 130-134. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Caroline Fall, Peter Hindmarsh, Elaine Dennison, Samantha Kellingray, David Barker, and Cyrus Cooper

Programming of Growth Hormone Secretion and Bone Mineral Density in Elderly Men: A Hypothesis
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 135-139. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

K. C. B. Tan, S. W. M. Shiu, and A. W. C. Kung

Plasma Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein Activity in Hyper- and Hypothyroidism
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 140-143. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Nannette A. T. M. Huizenga, Jan W. Koper, Pieter de Lange, Huibert A. P. Pols, Ronald P. Stolk, Huibert Burger, Diederick E. Grobbee, Albert O. Brinkmann, Frank H. de Jong, and Steven W. J. Lamberts

A Polymorphism in the Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene May Be Associated with an Increased Sensitivity to Glucocorticoids in Vivo
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 144-151. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Amiya P. Sinha Hikim, Christina Wang, Yanhe Lue, Larry Johnson, X.-H Wang, and Ronald S. Swerdloff

Spontaneous Germ Cell Apoptosis in Humans: Evidence for Ethnic Differences in the Susceptibility of Germ Cells to Programmed Cell Death
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 152-156. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Keisuke Kawai, Erika Resetkova, Tetsuya Enomoto, Victor Fornasier, and Robert Volpé

Is Human Leukocyte Antigen-DR and Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 Expression on Human Thyrocytes Constitutive in Papillary Thyroid Cancer? Comparative Studies of Human Thyroid Xenografts in Severe Combined Immunodeficient and Nude Mice
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 157-164. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Uyen Nhu Nguyen, Gilles Dumoulin, Marie-Thérèse Henriet, and Jacques Regnard

Aspartame Ingestion Increases Urinary Calcium, But Not Oxalate Excretion, in Healthy Subjects
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 165-168. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Emmanuel M. K. Awumey, Devashis A. Mitra, Bruce W. Hollis, Rajiv Kumar, and Norman H. Bell

Vitamin D Metabolism Is Altered in Asian Indians in the Southern United States: A Clinical Research Center Study
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 169-173. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ilan Shimon, Xinmin Yan, and Shlomo Melmed

Human Fetal Pituitary Expresses Functional Growth Hormone-Releasing Peptide Receptors
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 174-178. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Nicholas A. Cataldo, Victor Y. Fujimoto, and Robert B. Jaffe

Interferon- and Activin A Promote Insulin-Like Growth Factor-Binding Protein-2 and -4 Accumulation by Human Luteinizing Granulosa Cells, and Interferon- Promotes Their Apoptosis
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 179-186. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Anne M. Corbould, Stephen J. Judd, and Raymond J. Rodgers

Expression of Types 1, 2, and 3 17ß-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase in Subcutaneous Abdominal and Intra-Abdominal Adipose Tissue of Women
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 187-194. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Masato Nishimura, Koji Nakano, Masaji Ushiyama, Akira Nanbu, Ken Ohtsuka, Hakuo Takahashi, and Manabu Yoshimura

Increased Serum Concentrations of Human Hepatocyte Growth Factor in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 195-198. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yukie Suzuki, Tomohisa Nagashima, Yoko Nomura, Kazumichi Onigata, Kanji Nagashima, and Akihiro Morikawa

A New Compound Heterozygous Mutation (W17X, 436+5GT) in the Cytochrome P450c17 Gene Causes 17-Hydroxylase/17,20-Lyase Deficiency
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 199-202. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

C. Foresta, C. Galeazzi, A. Bettella, M. Stella, and C. Scandellari

High Incidence of Sperm Sex Chromosomes Aneuploidies in Two Patients with Klinefelter’s Syndrome
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 203-205. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Colin W. Bayne, Frank Donnelly, Karen Chapman, Prasad Bollina, Colin Buck, and Fouad K. Habib

A Novel Coculture Model for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Expressing Both Isoforms of 5-Reductase
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 206-213. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Thomas A. Wadden, Robert V. Considine, Gary D. Foster, Drew A. Anderson, David B. Sarwer, and José S. Caro

Short- and Long-Term Changes in Serum Leptin in Dieting Obese Women: Effects of Caloric Restriction and Weight Loss
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 214-218. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Byung-Seok Lee, Solomon B. Margolin, and Romana A. Nowak

Pirfenidone: A Novel Pharmacological Agent That Inhibits Leiomyoma Cell Proliferation and Collagen Production
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 219-223. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

P. Marcolongo, G. Bánhegyi, A. Benedetti, C. J. Hinds, and A. Burchell

Liver Microsomal Transport of Glucose-6-Phosphate, Glucose, and Phosphate in Type 1 Glycogen Storage Diseases
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 224-229. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Christoph Vogt, Hannele Yki-Jarvinen, Patricia Iozzo, Ruben Pipek, Merri Pendergrass, Janice Koval, Hossein Ardehali, Richard Printz, Daryl Granner, Ralph DeFronzo, and Lawrence Mandarino

Effects of Insulin on Subcellular Localization of Hexokinase II in Human Skeletal Muscle in Vivo
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 230-234. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Patrice Cousin, Henri Déchaud, Catherine Grenot, Hervé Lejeune, Michel Pugeat with the technical assistance of, Christine Baret, and Chantal Brébant

Human Variant Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin (SHBG) with an Additional Carbohydrate Chain Has a Reduced Clearance Rate in Rabbit
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 235-240. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Helene B. Lavoie, Kathryn A. Martin, Ann E. Taylor, William F. Crowley, and Janet E. Hall

Exaggerated Free -Subunit Levels during Pulsatile Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Replacement in Women with Idiopathic Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 241-247. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Diego Ferone, Secondo Lastoria, Annamaria Colao, Paola Varrella, Gaetana Cerbone, Wanda Acampa, Bartolomeo Merola, Marco Salvatore, and Gaetano Lombardi

Correlation of Scintigraphic Results Using ¹²³I-Methoxybenzamide with Hormone Levels and Tumor Size Response to Quinagolide in Patients with Pituitary Adenomas
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 248-252. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

P. G. Andreis, C. Tortorella, G. Mazzocchi, and G. G. Nussdorfer

Proadrenomedullin N-Terminal 20 Peptide Inhibits Aldosterone Secretion of Human Adrenocortical and Conn’s Adenoma Cells: Comparison with Adrenomedullin Effect
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 253-257. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

R. L. Jones, H. O. D. Critchley, J. Brooks, H. N. Jabbour, and A. S. McNeilly

Localization and Temporal Expression of Prolactin Receptor in Human Endometrium
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 258-262. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Véronique Machelon, Françoise Nomé, and Jan Tesarik

Nongenomic Effects of Androstenedione on Human Granulosa Luteinizing Cells
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 263-269. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Deborah P. Merke, Toshihiro Tajima, Adhuna Chhabra, Kevin Barnes, Edna Mancilla, Jeffrey Baron, and Gordon B. Cutler, Jr.

COMMENTS: Novel CYP11B1 Mutations in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to Steroid 11ß-Hydroxylase Deficiency
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 270-273. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Peter J. Fuller, Karen Verity, Yan Shen, Pamela Mamers, Tom Jobling, and Henry G. Burger

COMMENTS: No Evidence of a Role for Mutations or Polymorphisms of the Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Receptor in Ovarian Granulosa Cell Tumors
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 274-279. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Rapid Communications:

S.R. Bornstein, J. Licinio, R. Tauchnitz, L. Engelmann, AB Negrão, P. Gold, and G.P. Chrousos

Plasma Leptin Levels Are Increased in Survivors of Acute Sepsis: Associated Loss of Diurnal Rhythm in Cortisol and Leptin Secretion
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 280-283. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

H. D. Mason, S. Cwyfan-Hughes, J. M. P. Holly, and S. Franks

Potent Inhibition of Human Ovarian Steroidogenesis by Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-4 (IGFBP-4)
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 284-287. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

C. H. Tsai-Morris, Y. Geng, E. Buczko, and M. L. dufau

A Novel Human Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 288-293. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Announcements:

Endocrine-Related Resources from the National Institutes of Health
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998 83: 294-295. [Full Text]  

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