Dear colleagues,When younger fellows ask for guidance on how to choose a research project, many aspects require consideration: how to select a supervisor and mentor, should one change the institution, how does the project boost the later professional career, what are personal and professional aims. As many can probably relate it is passion for the research topic, both by the fellow and the mentor, that will go a long way and most often result in successful project completion.
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Methods Mol Biol
January 2025
Analytic Biochemistry, Calculi and Manual Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry, ARUP Laboratories, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Metanephrines (metanephrine [MN] and normetanephrine [NMN]) are O-methylated metabolites derived from the catecholamines, epinephrine, and norepinephrine, respectively. High concentrations of metanephrines have been observed in individuals with pheochromocytoma, a neuroendocrine tumor. Measurement of metanephrines in urine is used to screen for the tumor.
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January 2025
Department of Radiology, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, 100034, China.
Objectives: To evaluate the performance of a 3D V-Net-based segmentation model of adrenal lesions in characterizing adrenal glands as normal or abnormal.
Methods: A total of 1086 CT image series with focal adrenal lesions were retrospectively collected, annotated, and used for the training of the adrenal lesion segmentation model. The dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of the test set was used to evaluate the segmentation performance.
Eur J Endocrinol
January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine IV, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, 80336 Munich, Germany.
Objective: The effects of sex hormones remain largely unexplored in pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas (PPGLs) and gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs).
Methods: We evaluated the effects of estradiol, progesterone, Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), and testosterone on human patient-derived PPGL/GEP-NET primary culture cell viability (n = 38/n = 12), performed next-generation sequencing and immunohistochemical hormone receptor analysis in patient-derived PPGL tumor tissues (n = 36).
Results: In PPGLs, estradiol and progesterone (1 µm) demonstrated overall significant antitumor effects with the strongest efficacy in PPGLs with NF1 (cluster 2) pathogenic variants.
Am J Hypertens
January 2025
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, USA.
Hypertension is a growing concern worldwide, with increasing prevalence rates in both children and adults. Most cases of hypertension are multifactorial, with various genetic, environmental, socioeconomic, and lifestyle influences. However, monogenic hypertension, a blanket term for a group of rare of hypertensive disorders, is caused by single-gene mutations that are typically inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion, and ultimately disrupt normal blood pressure regulation in the kidney or adrenal gland.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFActa Dermatovenerol Croat
November 2024
Constantin A. Dasanu MD, PhD, Lucy Curci Cancer Center, Eisenhower Health, 39000 Bob Hope Dr, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 , USA;
Erlotinib, an epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI), is currently used in the therapy of several solid malignancies. This agent has been associated with several dermatological side-effects, the most common being papulo-pustular acneiform rash. Herein we describe a unique skin effect in a patient treated with erlotinib for non-small cell lung cancer.
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