Introduction: In Senegal, there is very little data on prolactinomas despite their negative impact on couples fertility. Patients and methods: This was a multicentre, retrospective, descriptive, analytical study condu...
Supported by the the National Science & Technology Pillar Program during the 12th Five-year Plan Period(No.2012BAI12B03);Beijing Talents Project(No.2012D003034000032);National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(No.2013BAI09B03);Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders project(No.BIBDPXM2013_014226_07_000084);the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished 302 Young Scholars(No.81502390)
Pituitary adenoma coexisting with cerebrospinal fluid(CSF) rhinorrhea and carotid aneurysm is extremely rare. CSF rhinorrhea may cause pneumocephalus and intracranial infection. Rupture of the aneurysm may cause fatal...
Supported by a grant from the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(No.81270865)
Objective It has long been reported that prolactinomas treated with bromocriptine increase fibrosis and may affect surgical outcomes.We retrospectively studied 238 consecutive patients with histopathologically confirm...
Prolactinomas are the most common benign pituitary neoplasms and the common cause of hyperprolactinemia. Most of them arise in women of reproductive age. In men, they are often functionally silent, but present with ma...
Science Foundation of China (No. 30270507 and No. 30371581), Beijing Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 7022025), Fund of the National Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No. 2003ccc01300) to XU Rong-kun, and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation to YANG Quan-hui.
Background Our earlier studies indicate that melatonin inhibits the proliferation of prolactinoma and induces apoptosis of pituitary prolactin-secreting tumor in rats. Melatonin has also been shown to induce apoptosis...
Prolactinomas are solitary benign neoplasms and resistance to dopamine agonists occur in a small percentage of prolactinomas.Multiple pituitary adenomas are reported in less than 1%of pituitary adenomas and rarely res...
We reported a rare case of a dialysis patient coincident pituitary prolactinoma with calcification. A 55-year-old woman who had undergone hemodialysis for 8 years was admitted to the nephrology unit because of headach...
Background Control of hypersecretion of certain hormones is one of the key targets in the treatment of pituitary adenomas. RNA interference has been shown to inhibit protein expression, and thus it may represent a pro...
Little is known about changes in calpain activity in the pituitary gland. In the present study,μ- and m-calpain activity changes were detected in the rat anterior pituitary following intraperitoneal injection of diet...
Twelve years following hemicolectomy for colon adenocarcinoma, a 75-year-old patient with prostate cancer was treated for 4 weeks with the antiandrogen nilutamide and then with the long-acting GnRH agonist buserelin. ...