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25-Hydroxycholecalciferol response to single oral cholecalciferol loading in the normal weight, overweight, and obese.

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A Single-Center 10-Year Experience with Pasireotide in Cushing's Disease: Patients' Characteristics and Outcome

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

A constitutive active MAPK/ERK pathway due to BRAFV600E positively regulates AHR pathway in PTC.

scientific article published on 16 September 2015

A pilot study of combined suicide/cytokine gene therapy in two patients with end-stage anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

scientific article published on 15 February 2005

A venous thromboembolism risk assessment model for patients with Cushing's syndrome

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AMP-activated protein kinase mediates glucocorticoid-induced metabolic changes: a novel mechanism in Cushing's syndrome

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Abnormality of aldosterone and cortisol late pathways in glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

Acute and chronic effects of high glucocorticoid levels on hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis in man.

scientific article published in June 1992

Adipose tissue 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 expression in obesity and Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Adipose tissue as an endocrine organ? A review of recent data related to cardiovascular complications of endocrine dysfunctions

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Adrenal incidentaloma

scientific article published on 22 May 2012

Adrenal scintigraphy in the morphological and functional evaluation of Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Advances in medical treatment of Cushing's disease

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Age and the metabolic syndrome affect salivary cortisol rhythm: data from a community sample.

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Age-Related Changes in Glucocorticoid Fast Feedback Inhibition of Adrenocorticotropin in Man1

scientific article published on April 1, 1998

Aldosterone as a cardiovascular risk factor.

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Aldosterone as a key mediator of the cardiometabolic syndrome in primary aldosteronism: an observational study.

scientific article published in January 2007

Aldosterone, calcium, and hypertension.

scientific article published on January 1986

Aldosterone, mineralocorticoid receptor and the metabolic syndrome: role of the mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists

scientific article published on 01 March 2012

Alpha-1 adrenergic blockade: a possible mechanism of action of dopaminergic drugs on ACTH secretion

scientific article published in December 1985

An analysis of different therapeutic options in patients with Cushing's syndrome due to bilateral macronodular adrenal hyperplasia: a single-centre experience

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

An in vitro stimulatory effect of indoleamines on aldosterone biosynthesis in the rat.

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Analysis of circulating extracellular vesicle-associated microRNAs in cortisol-producing adrenocortical tumors.

scientific article published on 3 January 2018

Analysis of screening and confirmatory tests in the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism: need for a standardized protocol.

scientific article published in April 2006

Analysis of the 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 gene (HSD11B2) in human essential hypertension

scientific article published in August 2005

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

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Approach to the patient with possible Cushing's syndrome.

scientific article published on September 2009

Association of glucocorticoid receptor polymorphism A3669G with decreased risk of developing diabetes in patients with Cushing's syndrome.

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Association of primary aldosteronism with chronic thyroiditis

scientific article published on 09 February 2016

Atrial natriuretic peptide in Cushing's disease

scientific article published on 01 February 1990

Blood pressure, thyroid-stimulating hormone, and thyroid disease prevalence in primary aldosteronism and essential hypertension.

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Bone complications in patients with Cushing's syndrome: looking for clinical, biochemical, and genetic determinants.

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Bone health and aldosterone excess.

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Changes in adenosine 5'-monophosphate-activated protein kinase as a mechanism of visceral obesity in Cushing's syndrome.

scientific article published on 9 September 2008

Chemical-physical properties of lipoproteins in anorexia nervosa.

scientific article published in November 2004

Circadian secretion of ACTH, cortisol, and mineralocorticoids in Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 January 1982

Clinical and molecular study in congenital muscular dystrophy with partial laminin alpha 2 (LAMA2) deficiency.

scientific article published in February 2003

Clinical correlates of major depression in Cushing's disease.

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Clinical use of pasireotide for Cushing's disease in adults

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Coagulopathy in Cushing's syndrome.

scientific article published on 10 September 2010

Coenzyme Q(10) supplementation in infertile men with idiopathic asthenozoospermia: an open, uncontrolled pilot study.

scientific article published on January 2004

Coenzyme Q10 treatment in infertile men with idiopathic asthenozoospermia: a placebo-controlled, double-blind randomized trial

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Coexistence of aldosteronoma and contralateral nonfunctioning adrenal adenoma in primary aldosteronism

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Correlates of perceived health related quality of life in obese, overweight and normal weight older adults: an observational study

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Corticotrophin-releasing hormone and desmopressin tests in the differential diagnosis between Cushing's disease and pseudo-Cushing state: a comparative study

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Corticotropin releasing hormone stimulation test: diagnostic aspects in Cushing's syndrome

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Corticotropin-Releasing Effect of Hexarelin, a Peptidyl GH Secretagogue, in Normal Subjects Pretreated with Metyrapone or RU-486, a Glucocorticoid Receptor Antagonist, and in Patients with Addison’s Disease

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Course of depression in Cushing's syndrome: response to treatment and comparison with Graves' disease.

scientific article published in January 1993

Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

Cyclical Cushing's syndrome in a patient with a bronchial neuroendocrine tumor (typical carcinoid) expressing ghrelin and growth hormone secretagogue receptors.

scientific article published on December 2003

Dexamethasone-suppressible hyperaldosteronism: pathophysiology, clinical aspects, and new insights into the pathogenesis

scientific article published on May 1987

Diabetes mellitus-associated periodontitis: differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus

scientific article published on 26 November 2010

Diagnosis and management of primary aldosteronism

scientific article published on 01 August 2008

Diagnosis of Glucocorticoid-Remediable Aldosteronism in Primary Aldosteronism: Aldosterone Response to Dexamethasone and Long Polymerase Chain Reaction for Chimeric Gene

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

Diagnosis of co-morbid axis-I psychiatric disorders among women with newly diagnosed, untreated endocrine disorders

scientific article published on 22 June 2010

Diagnosis of primary aldosteronism: from screening to subtype differentiation

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Disseminated nocardiosis in a patient with Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 June 1994

Distinctive modulation of inflammatory and metabolic parameters in relation to zinc nutritional status in adult overweight/obese subjects.

scientific article published on 7 May 2009

Early adrenal hypofunction in patients with organ-specific autoantibodies and no clinical adrenal insufficiency

scientific article published on 01 August 1994

Effect of a single injection of testosterone enanthate on 17β estradiol and bone turnover markers in hypogonadal male patients.

scientific article published on 16 October 2014

Effect of adrenocorticotropic hormone stimulation during adrenal vein sampling in primary aldosteronism

scientific article published on 13 February 2012

Effect of alpha-human atrial natriuretic peptide in low renin essential hypertension and primary aldosteronism

scientific article published on 01 January 1987

Effect of bromocriptine in pituitary-dependent Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 October 1983

Effect of metergoline on the aldosterone-stimulating properties of metoclopramide.

scientific article published on July 1983

Effect of naloxone on the adrenal cortex in primary aldosteronism

scientific article published on 01 July 1988

Effect of natural early menopause on bone mineral density

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Effect of octreotide on 24-h blood pressure profile in acromegaly.

scientific article published in May 1998

Effect of serotonin on plasma aldosterone in man

scientific article published on 01 March 1982

Effect of short and long-term administration of lisuride in Cushing's disease

scientific article published on 01 February 1985

Effect of surgical treatment on hypertension in Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Effect of the serotonin antagonists ritanserin and ketanserin in Cushing's disease

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Effects of naloxone on adrenal cortex regulation in patients with primary aldosteronism

scientific article published on 01 April 1988

Effects of prolonged sodium restriction on the morphology and function of rat adrenocortical autotransplants.

scientific article published on July 1991

Endocrine aspects of cancer gene therapy

scientific article published on February 2004

Evaluation of circulating thyroid-specific transcripts as markers of thyroid cancer relapse

scientific article published in July 2004

Evidence for ectopic ACTH production years after bilateral adrenalectomy for Cushing's syndrome: in vivo and in vitro studies

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Expanding role of AMPK in endocrinology.

scientific article published on July 2006

Expression of growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor splicing variants in human primary adrenocortical tumours.

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Extended treatment of Cushing's disease with pasireotide: results from a 2-year, Phase II study.

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Factor XII activation after DDAVP

scientific article published on 01 June 1990

Fibrinolysis and coagulation abnormalities in systemic lupus erythematosus. Relationship with Raynaud's phenomenon, disease activity, inflammatory indices, anticardiolipin antibodies and corticosteroid therapy

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

Fine-needle aspiration cytology of adrenal masses: a re-assessment with histological confirmation

scientific article published on 04 October 2011

Fracture risk assessment before and after resolution of endogenous hypercortisolism: is the FRAX® algorithm useful?

scientific article published on 11 July 2014

GSTM1 and CYP2D6 genotype frequencies in patients with pituitary tumours: effects on P53, ras and gsp.

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Gene therapy for thyroid cancer

scientific article published in August 2004

Gene therapy of thyroid cancer via retrovirally-driven combined expression of human interleukin-2 and herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase

scientific article published on January 2003

Genetic alterations in medullary thyroid cancer: diagnostic and prognostic markers

scientific article published on December 2011

Glucocorticoid-dependent hypertension

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Growth hormone deficiency in the transition period: body composition and gonad function.

scientific article published on 21 June 2011

Harmful effects of functional hypercortisolism: a working hypothesis.

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High cardiovascular risk in patients with Cushing's syndrome according to 1999 WHO/ISH guidelines.

scientific article published in December 2004

Hormonal responses during various phases of autoimmune adrenal failure: no evidence for 21-hydroxylase enzyme activity inhibition in vivo

scientific article published on 01 August 1996

Human corticotropin releasing hormone test performance in the differential diagnosis between Cushing's disease and pseudo-Cushing state is enhanced by combined ACTH and cortisol analysis.

scientific article published on 25 March 2009

Human leucocytes in asthenozoospermic patients: endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression

scientific article published on 6 January 2014

Hypogonadism and reduced bone mineral density in heterozygous H63D mutation in the HFE gene: an unusual presentation of hereditary hemochromatosis

scientific article published on 20 September 2006

I. Adrenal cortex and steroid 21-hydroxylase autoantibodies in adult patients with organ-specific autoimmune diseases: markers of low progression to clinical Addison's disease

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

In situ analysis of human menin in normal and neoplastic pancreatic tissues: evidence for differential expression in exocrine and endocrine cells

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In vitro metabolism of cortisol by human abdominal adipose tissue

scientific article published on 01 September 1982

Incidentally discovered adrenal tumors: endocrine and scintigraphic correlates

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Increased factor VIII/vWf levels in patients with reduced platelet number.

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Inhibition of pituitary beta-endorphin by ACTH and glucocorticoids

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Inhibitory effect of somatostatin on the aldosterone response to angiotensin II: in vitro studies

scientific article published on 01 May 1982

Intrapituitary cytokines in Cushing's disease: do they play a role?

scientific article published on September 2011

Investigation of N-cadherin/β-catenin expression in adrenocortical tumors.

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

Isolation and characterization of progenitor mesenchymal cells in human pituitary tumors

scientific article published on 19 December 2014

Left ventricular structural and functional characteristics in Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published in June 2003

Life events and neurocirculatory asthenia. A controlled study

scientific article published on 01 December 1998

Life events in the pathogenesis of hyperprolactinemia

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Lipoproteins obtained from anorexia nervosa patients induce higher oxidative stress in U373MG astrocytes through nitric oxide production.

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Long-term glucocorticoid effect on bone mineral density in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency.

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Low-dose ketoconazole treatment in hirsute women

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Management of primary aldosteronism: its complications and their outcomes after treatment

scientific article (publication date: April 2009)

Managing Cushing's disease: the state of the art.

scientific article published on 11 January 2014

Medical Treatment for Acromegaly does not Increase the Risk of Central Adrenal Insufficiency: A Long-Term Follow-Up Study.

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Medical therapy for Cushing's disease

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Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Pathway: Genetic Analysis of 95 Adrenocortical Tumors

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

Modulation of retrovirally driven therapeutic genes by mutant TP53 in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.

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Molecular genetic studies of sporadic pituitary tumors

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 syndromes (MEN 2): results from the ItaMEN network analysis on the prevalence of different genotypes and phenotypes

scientific article published in June 2010

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 syndromes (MEN 2): results from the ItaMEN network analysis on the prevalence of different genotypes and phenotypes

scholarly article by Cristina Romei et al published December 2010 in European Journal of Endocrinology

New aspects of mineralocorticoid hypertension

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

New insight into the hypercoagulability of Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 08 February 2011

Oleoylethanolamide protects human sperm cells from oxidation stress: studies on cases of idiopathic infertility.

scientific article published on 14 December 2005

Paclitaxel is an effective antiproliferative agent on the human NCI-H295 adrenocortical carcinoma cell line

scientific article published on March 1998

Pasireotide for the treatment of Cushing's disease

scientific article published on July 2010

Pathophysiology of dyslipidemia in Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 10 September 2010

Patterns of ACTH response to oCRH in Cushing's disease: correlation with histological/immunocytochemical findings.

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Percutaneous therapy of varicocele: effects on semen parameters in young adults

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Perioperative thromboprophylaxis in Cushing's disease: What we did and what we are doing?

scientific article published in August 2015

Persistent psychological distress in patients treated for endocrine disease.

scientific article published in March 2004

Personality characteristics and quality of life in patients treated for Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published in March 2006

Pharmacologic management of Cushing syndrome : new targets for therapy.

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Pituitary microadenomas: surgical results and morphological findings

scientific article published on 01 January 1983

Placebo-controlled double-blind randomized trial on the use of L-carnitine, L-acetylcarnitine, or combined L-carnitine and L-acetylcarnitine in men with idiopathic asthenozoospermia.

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Plasma renin activity and urinary aldosterone in acromegaly

scientific article published on 01 January 1979

Possible efficacy of Lavender and Tea tree oils in the treatment of young women affected by mild idiopathic hirsutism.

scientific article published on 26 November 2012

Potential therapeutic effects of ritanserin in Cushing's disease

scientific article published on 01 February 1992

Prevalence and natural history of adrenal incidentalomas

scientific article published on October 2003

Primary adrenal hypercortisolism: minimally invasive surgical treatment or medical therapy? A retrospective study with long-term follow-up evaluation.

scientific article published on 25 March 2010

Primary aldosteronism and essential hypertension: assessment of cardiovascular risk at diagnosis and after treatment

scientific article published on 2 November 2013

Pro-gamma-MSH levels in various disorders of pituitary-adrenal axis

scientific article published on January 1990

Progesterone increase counteracts aldosterone action in a pregnant woman with primary aldosteronism

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Prolactinomas, Cushing's disease and acromegaly: debating the role of medical therapy for secretory pituitary adenomas

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Protective effect of leg fat against cardiovascular risk factors in obese premenopausal women.

scientific article published on 5 May 2008

Psychological distress and quality of life in endocrine disease.

scientific article published on January 1990

Psychosocial impairment in patients treated for pituitary disease: a controlled study.

scientific article published on 3 July 2007

Quality of life of hirsute women

scientific article published on March 1993

Raloxifene and cardiovascular health: its relationship to lipid and glucose metabolism, hemostatic and inflammation factors and cardiovascular function in postmenopausal women.

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Recovery of bone mineral density after surgical cure, but not by ketoconazole treatment, in Cushing's syndrome.

scientific article published in January 2001

Reduced expression of the growth hormone and type 1 insulin-like growth factor receptors in human somatotroph tumours and an analysis of possible mutations of the growth hormone receptor.

scientific article published in September 2003

Reduced nitric oxide levels in acromegaly: cardiovascular implications.

scientific article published in January 2005

Regression of cardiac abnormalities after replacement therapy in Addison's disease

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Risk factors and long-term follow-up of adrenal incidentalomas

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Risk factors and long-term outcome in pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Role of bilateral adrenalectomy in Cushing's disease

scientific article published on 01 July 1994

Role of raloxifene on platelet metabolism and plasma lipids.

scientific article published in February 2008

Salivary cortisol is a useful tool to assess the early response to pasireotide in patients with Cushing's disease.

scientific article published in February 2015

Screening Tests for Cushing's Syndrome: Urinary Free Cortisol Role Measured by LC-MS/MS.

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

Second-line tests in the differential diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome.

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

Selective venous sampling in the differential diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 March 1992

Self image and quality of life in acromegaly

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Serum levels of calcitonin in Cushing's syndrome

scientific article published on 01 June 1986

Sexual Dysfunctions in Men Affected by Autoimmune Addison's Disease Before and After Short-Term Gluco- and Mineralocorticoid Replacement Therapy

scientific article published on March 16, 2012

Sexual symptoms in endocrine diseases: psychosomatic perspectives

scientific article published on January 2007

Slow-release lanreotide treatment in acromegaly: effects on quality of life.

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Small tumor size as favorable prognostic factor after adrenalectomy in Conn's adenoma.

scientific article published on 8 January 2009

Spironolactone and intermenstrual bleeding in polycystic ovary syndrome with normal BMI.

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Steroids and hypertension.

scientific article published on January 1991

Synergistic antitumour activity of RAF265 and ZSTK474 on human TT medullary thyroid cancer cells

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Systematic review of surgical treatment of subclinical Cushing's syndrome.

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Temozolomide and pasireotide treatment for aggressive pituitary adenoma: expertise at a tertiary care center

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The ENDOTRIAL study: a spontaneous, open-label, randomized, multicenter, crossover study on the efficacy of sildenafil, tadalafil, and vardenafil in the treatment of erectile dysfunction.

scientific article published on 29 June 2009

The combination of RAF265, SB590885, ZSTK474 on thyroid cancer cell lines deeply impact on proliferation and MAPK and PI3K/Akt signaling pathways.

scientific article published on 13 May 2014

The diagnostic performance of urinary free cortisol is better than the cortisol:cortisone ratio in detecting de novo Cushing's syndrome: the use of a LC-MS/MS method in routine clinical practice

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

The production of peroxynitrite by human spermatozoa may affect sperm motility through the formation of protein nitrotyrosine

scientific article published on 09 March 2006

The role of an acute pasireotide suppression test in predicting response to treatment in patients with Cushing's disease: findings from a pilot study

scientific article published on 11 December 2014

The role of psychological well-being in obese and overweight older adults.

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Therapy of endocrine disease: outcomes in patients with Cushing's disease undergoing transsphenoidal surgery: systematic review assessing criteria used to define remission and recurrence.

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Transcriptionally targeted retroviral vector for combined suicide and immunomodulating gene therapy of thyroid cancer

scientific article published in November 2002

Treatment of pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease with the multireceptor ligand somatostatin analog pasireotide (SOM230): a multicenter, phase II trial.

scientific article published on 28 October 2008

Type I and type II disease in congenital factor XIII deficiency. A further demonstration of the correctness of the classification

scientific article published in November 1986

Up-to 5-year efficacy of pasireotide in a patient with Cushing's disease and pre-existing diabetes: literature review and clinical practice considerations.

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Use of the desmopressin test in the differential diagnosis of pseudo-Cushing state from Cushing's disease.

scientific article published on 15 January 2010

Vascular endothelial growth factor and microvessel density in periodontitis patients with and without diabetes.

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Vitamin D levels and bone mineral density: are LH levels involved in the pathogenesis of bone impairment in hypogonadal men?

scientific article published on 17 October 2014