Circulating Inflammatory Biomarkers and Endocrine Responses to Exercise in Female Soccer Players.

The objective of the study to determine the effects of graded exercise on the cytokines and insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), growth hormone (hGH), testosterone (T), and cortisol (C) concentrations in the peripheral blood of female soccer players, and to evaluate if increased inflammatory biomarkers were related to these hormones and performance variables. Sixteen female soccer players (N = 16, age 19.3 ± 2.

The effect of high intensity physical exercise and hypoxia on glycemia, angiogenic biomarkers and cardiorespiratory function in patients with type 1 diabetes.

Background: An integral part of the treatment of diabetes is physical activity. Scientific reports have shown the beneficial effects of hypoxia and exercise on cardiovascular and metabolic variables in patients with diabetes.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to assess the effect of normobaric hypoxia and exercise on the serum concentrations of proangiogenic factors and glycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes.

Differences in echocardiography, blood pressure, stroke volume, maximal power and profile of genes related to cardiac hypertrophy in elite road cyclists.

Background: Regular and moderate exercise is beneficial for improving the efficiency of the heart, but high-intensity physical activity may result in cardiac changes.

Objectives: This study focuses on the identification of the differences in echocardiography and blood variables before exercise, as well as the genes associated with cardiac hypertrophy at rest and in response to graded exercise test.

Material And Methods: The study group was made up of 28 road cyclists.

Adrenergic response to maximum exercise of trained road cyclists.

The aim of this study was to evaluate adrenergic responses in the peripheral blood of trained road cyclists at rest, at maximal intensity of incremental bicycle exercise test, and during 15 minutes of recovery, as well as the relationship between them. Competitive male road cyclists, in the pre-competitive phase of a season, mean age 21.7 ± 6.

Differential expression of inflammation-related genes after intense exercise.

The present study focused on the identification of the difference in expression of inflammation-related genes after intense exercise by oligonucleotide microarray methods. This may finally lead to an improved understanding of underlying cellular and molecular mechanism of the immunological alterations in response to exercises. The study group consisted of three healthy road cyclists.

Expression pattern of the transforming growth factor β signaling genes in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells after exercise-inflammatory aspects.

Objective: The present study has focused on the identification of differences between the expression pattern of TGF-β signaling pathway genes in athletes after exercise.

Materials And Methods: The study group consisted of three healthy cyclists, which were collected pre-exercise, immediately postexercise, and after 15 min of recovery. The analysis of the expression profile of genes related to the TGF-β signal transduction pathway was performed in peripheral blood mononuclear cells using HG-U133A oligonucleotide microarrays.

Urinary iodine in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) during L-thyroxine treatment.

Introduction: Urinary iodine concentrations were analyzed in the morning urine samples of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC).

Material And Methods: The analyzed group included 572 DTC patients who were treated with radioiodine or hospitalized for evaluation of radioiodine treatment effects in 2009 at the Institute of Oncology in Gliwice. Ioduria was analyzed by PAMM (Program Against Micronutrient Malnutrition) method before rhTSH administration.

[Comparative analysis of the effects of iodine prophylaxis in children and adolescents from the region of Szczecin].

Unlabelled: The research on iodine metabolism carried out in the '80s and '90s of the twentieth century revealed moderate iodine deficiency in the area of the whole Poland. These results contributed to the introduction of the populational iodine prophylaxis programme consisting in the obligatory iodizing of kitchen salt. In 2002-2003, the research was conducted in the region of Szczecin, the aim of which was to assess the efficiency of this model of iodine prophylaxis.

[Clinical usefulness of determining beta-2-microglobulin concentration in thyroid cystic fluid].

Unlabelled: The main subject of the paper was to prove that beta-2-microglobulin (beta-2-m) exists in fluid taken from a thyroid gland cyst of the patients with non-toxic, nodular goitre with cysts and whether the confirmation of beta-2-m existence in fluid taken from a cyst may indicate the presence of autoimmunological process in thyroid glands. The research was carried out on a group of 36 patients operated on because of goitre. Patients with the thyroid cancer were except.

[Assessment of selected neoplastic markers in women receiving hormone replacement therapy].

The study was performed in order to assess the serum levels of proteins believed to be the markers of neoplastic differentiation (CEA and CA 15.3) and proliferation (TPS) in women receiving hormone replacement therapy. 190 women were included into the study.

Estimation of usefulness of monitoring tissue polypeptide antigen--TPA-M concentrations in the effectiveness surgical treatment of urinary bladder cancer.

Background: Of all cancer tumours, urinary bladder cancer is the fourth must common in men and the seventh in women. The aim of this work was to answer the question whether tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA-M) determination in patients after electroresection of urinary bladder cancer can be used to establish the probability of tumour recurrence.

Material And Methods: The research included 98 patients, all of whom had undertaken electroresection of urinary bladder tumour (TURT), which enabled its removal, and then estimation of malignancy and progression stage according to the international TNM scale.

[Urine iodine excretion by healthy pregnant women after vitamin and microelement supplementation (Materna) in the first trimester].

Objectives: The aim of the study was the assessment of iodine turnover in healthy pregnant women supplemented by microelement and vitamin preparation Materna.

Methods: To assess iodine supplementation, a modified PAAM method was used for measurement of iodine concentration in morning urine.

Materials: 50 pregnant healthy women were tested for Materna supplementation.