objective: to evaluate the relationship between serum level of testosterone and sex hormone-binding globulin in men with type 2 diabetes. materials and methods: in this case-control study, forty men aged 40-70 with type 2 diabetes mellitus were randomly selected and compared with 40 non-diabetic men. the two groups were matched for their age and bmi. after complete observation and examination, ...

results the results indicated that ghrelin significantly decreased thyroid hormone concentrations, whereas estradiol increased these concentrations. the simultaneous injection of ghrelin and estradiol significantly decreased the inhibitory effect of ghrelin on thyroid hormone concentrations (p < 0.05). conclusions according to the results of this study, both ghrelin and estradiol affect the con...

Introduction There is an agreement that eating disorder is related to psychological characteristics and on the other hand, level of ghrelin hormone, Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and E-selection also change during eating disorders. We aimed to study the relationship between eating disorders and rest levels, ICAM-1, E-selection, and ghrelin hormone in obese people. Materials and Met...

The aim of this study was to investigate the potential association between growth hormone GH/AluI and growth hormone receptor GHR/AluI polymorphisms with milk yield and reproductive performances in Holstein dairy cows in Iran. Blood samples of 150 Holstein cows were collected and their genomic DNA was extracted using Gene-Fanavaran DNA extracting kit. Fragments of the 428 bp of exon 5 growth ho...

Background and Objective: Breast cancer is the commonest cancer of Indian women. Estrogen and Progesterone expression is seen in benign breast lesions and in breast carcinoma associated with good prognostic parameters and it correlates well with response to hormone therapy. Although a lot of studies have been conducted in the past on hormone receptor expression in breast cancer and few have cor...

Severe and moderate osteoporosis is a common disease in the world. It considered silent that has no clear signs. The current study aimed to evaluate correlation between Parathyroid Hormone-related Protein (PTHrP) with Vitamin D Bind protein(VDBP) Osteoporosis Osteopenia patients AL-Najaf city /Iraq. To succeed desired goal, 100 (50 50 Osteoporosis) participated this study, on other hand, fifty ...

Background: Leptin, a 16-KDa peptide hormone secreted from theadipose tissue, plays an important role in the regulation of energyintake and expenditure and body weight regulation; furthermore,it has a regulatory function on the reproductive system. The aimof this study was to assess the relationship between serum leptinlevels and sex hormones in psoriatic patients and control groupand to determ...