Many steroid hormones can be considered as potential biomarkers and their determination in body fluids can create opportunities for the rapid diagnosis of many diseases and disorders of the human body. Most existing methods for the determination of steroids are usually time- and labor-consuming and quite costly. Therefore, the aim of analytical laboratories is to develop a new, relatively low-c...

INTRODUCTION Sex hormones have been implicated in the etiology of a number of diseases. To better understand disease etiology and the mechanisms of disease-risk factor associations, this analysis aimed to investigate the associations of anthropometric, sociodemographic and behavioural factors with a range of circulating sex hormones and sex hormone-binding globulin. METHODS Statistical analys...

Systemic and ophthalmological diseases are on the rise world over, which is, to a large extent, caused by life expectancy growth. Therefore, early diagnosis, screening monitoringpossibilities of human health parameters is becoming more important. Contact lenses, due being fitted eye’s surface, constantly wetted tear fluid, present-day microelectronics achievements may be used as convenient tech...

The choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid have recently begun to emerge as essential regulators of neural function. Factors produced by the choroid plexus are released into the ventricular environment and thus provide a rich source of extracellular signaling molecules throughout the central nervous system. Identified factors in the cerebrospinal fluid include growth factors, hormones, proteins...

This paper is based on a discussion that was held during a special session on models of mental disorders, at the NeuroMath meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, in September 2008. At this occasion, scientists from different countries and different fields of research presented their research and discussed open questions with regard to analyses and models of mental disorders, in particular depression. Th...

background and objective: endocrine disorders are common in patients with chronic kidney disease (ckd). the aim of the present study is reviewing available literature to give a deep understanding of complexities of endocrine disorders in chronic kidney disease. methods: a narrative reviewing method based on the available literature was approached. findings: generally, when renal function decrea...

one of the important reasons for death among the worldwide’s population is trauma which is injury or damage to a biological organism caused by physical harm from an external source. after trauma, the immune system and the early inflammatory immune response activation lead to massive injury. trauma causes activation of nearly all components of the immune system; it also activates the neuroendocr...

Abstract Study question How anxiety and stress questionnaires punctuations endometrial steroid biosynthesis metabolites levels are associated with embryo implantation pregnancy outcomes in IVF patients? Summary answer Those patients high cortisol low estradiol levels, were stressed according to STAI State showed lower rates of pregnancy. What is known already Although treatments be a source str...