Endocrinology & Metabolic Syndrome
Open Access

2^nd International Conference on Endocrinology

October 20-22, 2014 DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Chicago-North Shore, USA

Scientific Tracks Abstracts

• Estrogen modulation of visceral nociception

  Victor Chaban

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• Progesterone in the treatment of ischemic stroke

  Fahim Atif

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• Silencing growth hormone receptor inhibits pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma growth and metastasis

  Rajkumar Lakshmanaswamy

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• Developing long acting agonists and antagonists of glycoprotein hormones using gene fusion and gene transfer: From bench to clinics

  Fuad Fares

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• New hormonal and intracellular regulators of reproduction

  Alexander V Sirotkin

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• Developing brain as an endocrine organ: A paradoxical reality

  Michael V Ugrumov

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• Novel findings on the functions of non-visual G protein-coupled Receptor Kinases (GRKs): Their marked inhibitory effect on adrenomedullin type 1 receptor signaling

  Kenji Kuwasako, Kazuo Kitamura, Sayaka Nagata and Johji Kato

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• Low levels of pesticides disrupt the Pituitary-gonadal hormone functions and reproductive functions in male rodent model

  Urban John Arnold D’Souza

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• Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) promotes ovarian steroidogenesis and Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) signaling is required for Gonadotropin-induced steroid production in common carp, Cyprinus carpio

  Dilip Mukherjee, Buddhadev Mallick, Sujata Roy Moulik, Puja Pal and Suravi Majumder

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• From melanopsins to clock genes: Hormone regulation and signal transduction

  Ana Maria L Castrucci, Maristela O Poletini, Maria Nathalia C M Moraes, Jennifer C Sousa and Nathana F Mezzalira

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• Molecular mechanisms underlying insulin resistance in skeletal muscle during catch-up growth

  Juan Zheng, Lulu Chen, Xiang Hu and Chaodong Wu

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• The complexities and priorities for the treament of older diabetics

  Jose Mario F de Oliveira

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• The efficacy of natural honey in the management of chronic Diabetic foot ulcers

  Hashim Mohamed

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• YKL-40 and high sensitivity C-reactive protein inserum in Type 2 diabetic patients in relation to cardiovascular complications

  El-Attar HA, El-Deeb MM and El-Ghlied

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• Signaling mechanisms of a water soluble curcumin derivative in experimental Type 1 diabetes with cardiomyopathy

  Rania E Hussein, Mohamed T Abdel Aziz, Ibrahim N E Ibrashy, Dimitri P Mikhailidis, Ameen M Rezq, Mohamed A Wassef, Hanan H Fouad, Hanan H Ahmed, Dina A Sabry and Heba M Shawky

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• Incretin based therapies in type 2 diabetes

  Mukhyaprana Manuru Prabhu

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• Universal screening and timely intervention in Gestational diabetes mellitus: A key to successful feto-maternal outcome

  Prasanta Kumar Nayak

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• Efficacy of urinary n-acetyl β- D-Glucosaminidase in detecting renal tubular damage: An early consequence in Type 2 diabetes mellitus leading to Diabetic nephropathy

  Kiran Kalia and Dhara N Patel

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• Effect of antiretroviral drugs on prolactin in HIV infected pregnant women

  Chukwubike Okeke

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• Effects of age and serum 25OH Vitamin D on serum parathyroid hormone levels

  Andre A Valcour

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• An old argument with a new paradigm

  Thomas Thekkumkara

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• Endothelin signaling and actions in renal mesangium

  Andrey Sorokin

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• Correlation between serum Vitamin-D level and cardiovascular risk factors among postmenopausal women

  Subarna Mitra

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• Molecular pathways involved in prolactin-dependent JAK2/PAK1 action: Implication in breast cancer cell motility and invasion

  Maria Diakonova

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• VIP/VPAC Axis plays an immunomodulatory role in a murine model of Aspergillus fumigatusinduced allergic asthma

  Amali E Samarasinghe, Scott A Hoselton and Jane M Schuh

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• Growth hormone and glucocorticoid-induced JAK2-STAT5-GR signalling for liver function, liver carcinoma development and control of peripheral lipolysis

  Richard H Moriggl, Madeleine Themanns, Doris Kaltenecker and Kristina Muller

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• Consumption of non-soy legumes improves vascular function by altering the mechanical properties of arteries

  Peter Zahradka

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• Abiraterone inhibits CYP3A4-mediated inactivation of 1α, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 in human liver and intestine

  Subrata Deb, Mei Y Chin, Hans Adomat and Emma S Tomlinson Guns

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• Novel mechanisms of the glucocorticoid receptor in inflammatory bone disease, bone loss and insulin resistance

  Jan Tuckermann

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• The 5-HT7 receptor: A key mechanism of endocrine dysregulation in stress-related disorders?

  Jose A Terron

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• Melatonin receptors: Molecular and functional considerations

  Jean A Boutin

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• Neuroinflammation is regulated by angiotensin-related drugs: Possible implications for neurodegenerative disease

  Sigal Fleisher-Berkovich

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• Receptor ligands as targets and targeting agents for novel therapeutics

  R Claudio Aguilar

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• Challenging GWAS discoveries by locus refining and stratification of population by anthropological lineages

  Florin Grigorescu

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• Neuroendocrine control of hydromineral balance: Participation of estradiol and its interaction with corticosterone

  Gislaine de Almeida Pereira

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• Orexin neuron induction through epigenetics and hexosamine biosynthesis pathway in human and mouse pluripotent stem cells

  Kunio Shiota

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• Emerging role of Neuropeptide Y (NPY) in anuran adaptation to environmental stress

  Bhargava Shobha and Ishfaq Ali

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• Several reproductive stressors induce stress enzyme-mediated differentiation of placental trophoblast stem cells to produce hormones of early but not later placental lineages

  Daniel A Rappolee

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• Serum, seminal fluid and testicular tissue testosterone in infertility and sexual disorders in man

  Mohamed Saad Hamed Mahmoud

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• Artificial sperm selection and cryptic male choice: What have fish and human taught us?

  Tomislav Vladic

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• Additional treatment with natural progesterone prolongs gestation in women with preterm labour

  Ylva Vladic Stjernholm

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• Vascular insulin resistance of a rat model of polycystic ovary syndrome: Effects of parallel vitamin D3 treatment

  Levente Sára, Péter Antal, Gabriella Masszi, Róbert Tarszabó, Ágnes Novák, Anna Buday, Eszter M Horváth, Péter Hamar, Rita Benkő, Emil Monos, Zoltán Benyó, György L Nádasy and Szabolcs Várbíró

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• Atypical cells in the ascitic fluid of women with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: Follow up and assessment of malignancy

  Balint Farkas, Ioannis Hatzipetros, Peter M Gocze, Katalin Cziraky, Jozsef Bodis and Endre Kalman

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• Non-classical androgen actions in sertoli cell membrane

  Eloisa S Loss

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• Lipid nuclear receptors in male fertility

  Volle David H

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• Restoring maternal nutrition to recommended levels at midgestation in previously nutrient restricted ewes improves nutrient transport across the placenta

  Yan Ma, Mei J Zhu, Adam B Uthlaut, Mark J Nijland, Peter W Nathanielsz, Bret W Hess and Stephen P Ford

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• Low androgen action at a critical time-point in the neonatal period down-regulates biomarkers for smooth muscle cell differentiation leading to permanent infertility

  Lilian Okumu, Tim Braden, Liz Simon, and Hari Goyal

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• Defining hirsutism in Chinese women: A cross-sectional study

  Xiaomiao Zhao

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• Isolation, characterization and functional properties of extravillous cytotrophoblast cells from term placental basal plate

  Alexandre Urban Borbely

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• Assisted reproductive technology enhances the risk of pulmonary inflammation related to the aberrant expression of INSIG-SCAP-SREBP in the elder mice

  Fang Le, Li-Ya Wang and Fan Jin

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• Successful pregnancy by transmyometrial embryo transfer after IVF in a patient with congenital cervical dysgenesis

  Al-Jaroudi D, Al-Obaid S, Saleh A, Khan F, Yahya M and Salih A

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• Latent genital tuberculosis adversely affects ovarian reserve in infertile women

  Padma Rekha Jirge

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• Co-existence of endocrine- auto-immune disorders with auto-immune-rheumatoid disorders; Description of the clinical features and auto-antibodies seen in a set of patients at a tertiary care super-specialty hospital seen

  Sundeep Upadhyaya

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• Steroidogenic genes during early sex differentiation of gonads in Xenopus laevis

  Michihiko Ito

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• TSH Receptor small molecule “drug-like” antagonists

  Susanne Neumann

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• Increased cortisol production through the H6PD/11-β-HSD1 machinery in Mg2+-deficient liver cells

  Andrea M P Romani

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• Cardioprotective and disease preventive effects of traditional and novel green leafy vegetables

  Melissa Johnson

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• Disrupted melanocortin signaling may cause erectile dysfunction and loss of libido accompanying metabolic syndrome

  Jennifer W Hill, L Faulkner, R C Stuart and E A Nillni

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• Zebrafish 20 β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 is important for glucocorticoid catabolism in stress response

  Jerzy Adamski, Janina Tokarz, William Norton, Gabriele Möller and Martin Hrabé de Angelis

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• CETP expression prolongs mice survival rate in sepsis by increasing leukocyte migration and reducing the concentrations of plasma IL-6 and of hepatic TLR4

  Eder C R Quintao, Tatiana Martins Venancio, Roberta Marcondes Machado, Valeria Sutti Nunes, Alessandro Salerno, Francisco Garcia Soriano, Chin Jia Lin and Patrícia Miralda Cazita

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• Reproducibility in science: How video journals increase research validity and productivity

  Kira M Henderson

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• The role of apolipoprotein D in lipid metabolism and metabolic syndrome

  Catherine Mounier

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• New targeted therapies for the treatment of thyroid cancer

  Alessandro Antonelli, Silvia Martina Ferrari and Poupak Fallahi

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• Adrenal pathology: Up-to-date in surgical treatment

  Vincenzo Neri and Francesco Lapolla

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• Metoclopramide-induced hyperprolactinemia effects on the pituitary and uterine prolactin receptor expression

  Vinicius Cestari do Amaral, Gustavo Arantes Rosa Maciel, Katia Candido Carvalho, Rodrigo Rodrigues Marcondes, Jose Maria Soares Junior and Edmund Chada Baracat

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• Selective modulation of the glucocorticoid receptor can distinguish between transrepression of NF- κB and AP-1

  Ilse M Beck, Karolien De Bosscher, Lien Dejager, Nadia Bougarne, Anthoula Gaigneaux, Sébastien Chateauvieux, Dariusz Ratman, Marc Bracke, Jan Tavernier, Wim Vanden Berghe, Claude Libert, Marc Diederich and Guy Haegeman

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• Bisphenol A and female fertility

  Ronit Machtinger

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• Impact of novel lipidized analogs of neuropeptides on food intake decrease and metabolic changes in rodents

  Lenka Maletinska

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• Detection of biologically active endocrine disrupting chemicals in water sources and the potential health hazards of these contaminants

  Diana A Stavreva

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• Stress-induced endocrine response and anxiety: The effects of comfort food

  Spadari-Bratfisch R C, Ortolani D, Melo-Tomas L L and Garcia M C

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• Sex differences in central expression and anorectic effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor

  Haifei Shi

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• Effect of intranasal infusion of GALP (Galanin-Like Peptide) on feeding and energy metabolism

  Seiji Shioda, Satoshi Hirako, Kazuhiro Wada and Fumiko Takenoya

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• The MRL mouse strain is naturally resistant to high fat diet-induced hyperglycemia

  Ahlke Heydemann

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• Integrating endocrine regulatory mechanisms in prostate cancer progression

  Simone Chevalier

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• Modulation of adipocyte function by dietary Omega-3 fatty acids

  Carla G Taylor

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• Insulinoma: Still a challenge in diagnosis and therapy?

  Francesco Lapolla, Alessandra di Lascia and Vincenzo Neri

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• Meta-analysis of transcriptional profiles in cancer for prognosis prediction and metastatic gene identification

  Yajun Yi

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• Role of oxytocin in energy metabolism

  Valéria Ernestânia Chaves

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• Control of hepatic gluconeogenesis by the promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger protein

  Chang Liu, Jinchun Qian, Xiaoli Shi, Chunqi Tang and Tingting Gao

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• GWAS of age at menarche and age at natural menopause

  Chunyan He

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• The effects of initial and subsequent adiposity status on Diabetes mellitus

  Xiaoping Chen Qingtao Meng, Sen He, Yan Shu, Jiyun He, Kaijun Cui, Jiayue Feng and Kai Liu

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• A novel AMPK activator, IMM-H007, improves lipid metabolism disorders in vitro and in vivo

  Haibo Zhu

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• The mechanism of interaction of GLP-1 and leptin on feeding in rats

  Yukari Date

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• The protective effect of resveratrol on islet insulin secretion and morphology in mice on a high-fat diet

  Jiaoyue Zhang, Chen L, Zheng J, Zeng T, Li H, Xiao H, Deng X and Hu X

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