The treatment and survival of patients with postoperative recurrent thymic...
AbstractPurposeThere are few data available on the outcomes of postoperative recurrent thymic carcinoma (TC) and thymic neuroendocrine carcinoma (TNEC). The aim of this study is to evaluate the...
View ArticleCorrection to: Performance Evaluation and Social Optimization of an...
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View ArticleHuman pituitary development and application of iPSCs for pituitary disease
AbstractThe pituitary plays a pivotal role in maintaining systemic homeostasis by secreting several hormones. During fetal development, the pituitary develops from the oral ectoderm in contact with the...
View ArticleMechanistic insights into immune checkpoint inhibitor-related hypophysitis: a...
AbstractBackgroundImmune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) as a cancer immunotherapy have emerged as a treatment for multiple advanced cancer types. Because of enhanced immune responses, immune-related...
View ArticlePituitary Society Delphi Survey: An international perspective on endocrine...
AbstractPurposeIn adults and children, transsphenoidal surgery (TSS) represents the cornerstone of management for most large or functioning sellar lesions with the exception of prolactinomas. Endocrine...
View ArticleDecreased sphingomyelin (t34:1) is a candidate predictor for lung squamous...
AbstractBackgroundTo reduce disease recurrence after radical surgery for lung squamous cell carcinomas (SQCCs), accurate prediction of recurrent high-risk patients is required for efficient patient...
View ArticleRinged fluorodeoxyglucose uptake predicted poor prognosis after resection of...
AbstractBackgroundPulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma (PPC) is a relatively rare and poorly differentiated non-small cell carcinoma. This study aimed to investigate the clinicopathological features...
View ArticleResponsiveness to DDAVP in Cushing’s disease is associated with USP8...
AbstractPurposeTo clarify the characteristics of Cushing’s disease (CD) patients who respond to the desmopressin (DDAVP) test and its underlying mechanisms.MethodsForty-seven patients with CD who...
View ArticleEnhancement of antitumor immune response by radiation therapy combined with...
AbstractPurposeTreatments for metastatic human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive tumors are improving but remain inadequate. We investigated activating antitumor immune response by...
View ArticlePredictive performance of PD-L1 tumor proportion score for nivolumab response...
AbstractObjectivesPostoperative recurrence in patients with non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC) is a major issue for life expectancy. Programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression on tumor cells...
View ArticleWeekly somapacitan had no adverse effects on glucose metabolism in adults...
AbstractPurposeThe long-term effects of long-acting growth hormone (LAGH) analogues on glucose metabolism in adult growth hormone deficiency (AGHD) are not known. We investigated the impact of LAGH...
View ArticleLipid biomarkers that reflect postoperative recurrence risk in lung cancer...
AbstractBackgroundThe risk of postoperative recurrence is higher in lung cancer patients who smoke than non-smokers. However, objective evaluation of the postoperative recurrence risk is difficult...
View ArticleLight-induced reversible destabilization of responsive latex particles...
AbstractAqueous dispersions of polymer nanoparticles (latexes) are of high commercial importance — it can be desirable to reversibly destabilize such latexes, for example, to enable transport/storage...
View ArticleLung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma difficult for...
AbstractIn patients with unresectable non-small cell lung cancer, histological diagnosis is frequently based on small biopsy specimens unsuitable for histological diagnosis when they are severely...
View ArticleAssociation of cardiovascular disease risk and changes in renin levels by...
AbstractA recent report stated that patients with primary aldosteronism who remain renin suppressed during mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist treatment might have a higher risk of developing...
View ArticleNewer parameters of the octreotide test in patients with acromegaly
AbstractPurposePredicting the therapeutic effects of first-generation somatostatin receptor ligands (fg-SRLs) is important when assessing or planning effective treatment strategies in patients with...
View ArticleCoenzyme Q10 in the eye isomerizes by sunlight irradiation
AbstractPhotoisomerization of lipids has been well studied. As for the eyes, photoisomerization from 11-cis isomer to all-trans-retinal is well-known as the first step of the visual transduction in the...
View ArticleDifferentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into hypothalamic...
AbstractFamilial neurohypophyseal diabetes insipidus (FNDI) is a degenerative disease of vasopressin (AVP) neurons. Studies in mouse in vivo models indicate that accumulation of mutant AVP prehormone...
View ArticleAntithyroid drug-induced leukopenia and G-CSF administration: a long-term...
AbstractAlthough antithyroid drug (ATD)-induced agranulocytosis is a significant concern, its risks associated with long-term use and re-administration are not fully elucidated. Therefore, we performed...
View ArticleNovel subgroups of obesity and their association with outcomes: a data-driven...
AbstractBackgroundObesity is associated with various complications and decreased life expectancy, and substantial heterogeneity in complications and outcomes has been observed. However, the subgroups...
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