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Clinical Endocrinology (1992) 36, iii-vii Contents Volume 36, Number 1, January 1992 83 Thyrotoxicosis and hyperemesis gravidarum associated with a serum activity which stimulates human thyroid cells in vitro: R. L. KENNEDY, | Review Effects of steroid hormones and related J. DARNE, R. DAVIES and A. PRICE compounds on gene transcription: R. J. B. KING Nicotinamide and 3-aminobenzamide inhibit Current therapy Hormone replacement therapy: risks recombinant human interferon-y-induced HLA-DR and benefits: s. 1. J. WHITCROFT and antigen expression, but not HLA-A,B,C antigen J. C. STEVENSON expression, on cultured human thyroid cells: Commentary Treatment of sporadic goitre with Y. HIROMATSU, M. SATO, K. YAMADA and thyroxine: C. EDMONDS K. NONAKA Suppressive therapy with levothyroxine for solitary Long-acting gonadotrophin releasing hormone thyroid nodules: J. L. REVERTER, A. LUCAS, agonist implant causes variable duration of I. SALINAS, L. AUDI, M. FOZ and A. SANMARTI suppression of ovarian steroid and inhibin secretion: Circadian rhythm of plasma testosterone in men with H. M. FRASER, R. HAINING, G. M. COWEN, idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism before J. SANDOW, K. B. SMITH and S. K. SMITH and during pulsatile administration of Improvement in endocrine and ovarian function gonadotrophin-releasing hormone: M. SIMONI, during dietary treatment of obese women with V. MONTANINI, M. F. FUSTINI, G. D. RIO, K. CIONI polycystic ovary syndrome: D. Ss. KIDDY, and P. MARRAMA D. HAMILTON-FAIRLEY, A. BUSH, F. SHORT, Low recurrence rate after partial hypophysectomy for V. ANYAOKU, M. J. REED and S. FRANKS prolactinoma: the predictive value of dynamic Osteoporosis and Klinefelter’s syndrome: prolactin function tests: J. WEBSTER, M. D. PAGE, M. HOROWITZ, J. M. WISHART, P. D. O’LOUGHLIN, J. S. BEVAN, S. H. RICHARDS, A. G. DOUGLAS-JONES H. A. MORRIS, A. G. NEED and B. E. C. NORDIN and M. F. SCANLON 119 Book reviews Growth hormone treatment of adults with growth 120 Notices hormone deficiency: results of a 13-month placebo controlled cross-over study: H. M. WHITEHEAD, C. BOREHAM, E. M. MCILRATH, B. SHERIDAN, Volume 36, Number 2, February 1992 L. KENNEDY, A. BREW ATKINSON and D. R. HADDEN Insulin secretion and insulin-like growth factor-I Review Mutant insulin receptors in syndromes of levels in active and controlled acromegaly: insulin resistance: S$. O’RAHILLY and D. E. MOLLER K. D. HOPKINS and I. M. HOLDAWAY Commentary The Pituitary Megatest: Outdated?: A novel variant of growth hormone (GH) C. W. BURKE insufficiency following low dose cranial irradiation: A retrospective audit of the combined pituitary E. C. CROWNE, C. MOORE, W. H. B. WALLACE, function test, usng the insulin stress test, TRH and A. L. OGILVY-STUART, G. M. ADDISON, GnRH ina district laboratory: s. R. PAVORD, P. H. MORRIS-JONES and S. M. SHALET A .GIRACH, D. E.PRICE, S. R. ABSALOM, The role of thyroid stimulating antibody (TSAb) in J. FALCONER-SMITH and T. A. HOWLETT the thyroid function of patients with post-partum Role for cyclic adenosine monophosphate in the hypothyroidism: T. HARA, H. TAMAI, T. MUKUTA, synergistic interaction between oxytocin and S. FUKATA and K. KUMA corticotrophin-releasing factor in isolated human Correlation of HLA types and clinical findings in gestational myometrium: H. W. P. QUARTERO, Japanese patients with hyperthyroid Graves’ disease: G. SRIVATSA and B. GILLHAM evidence indicating the existence of four Pituitary imeging using a labelled somatostatin subpopulations: D. INOUE, K. SATO, T. ENOMOTO, analogue in acromegaly: E. UR, S. J. MATHER, H. SUGAWA, M. MAEDA, H. INOKO, K. TSUJI, J. BOMANII, D. ELLISON, K. E. BRITTON, T. MORI and H. IMURA A. B. GROSSMAN, J. A. H. WASS and G. M. BESSER iv Contents Endocrine function in patients with Cushing’s disease Volume 36, Number 3, March 1991 before and after treatment: J. LINDHOLM Growth hormone and lean tissue catabolism during 219 Commentary The significance of antisperm long-term glucocorticoid treatment: W. M. BENNET antibodies: measurement and management: and M. W. HAYMOND W. F. HENDRY Rate of change (modulation) of serum growth Commentary Risk factors for osteoporosis: hormone concentrations is a more important factor in J. E. COMPSTON determining growth rate than duration of exposure: Assessment of the risk of post-menopausal P. C. HINDMARSH, D. R. MATTHEWS, I. STRATTON, osteoporosis using clinical factors: C. RIBOT, P. J. PRINGLE and C. G. D. BROOK J. M. POUILLES, M. BONNEU and Long-term treatment with the dopamine agonist CV F. TREMOLLIERES 205-502 of patients with a clinically non-functioning, Normal bone mineral density following cure of gonadotroph, or «-subunit secreting pituitary Cushing’s syndrome: P. J. MANNING, M. C. EVANS adenoma: D. J. KWEKKEBOOM and and I. R. REID S. W. J. LAMBERTS The effects of the specific serotonin antagonist ICI Pituitary—ovarian function in women with minimal or 169, 369 on the pituitary hormone response to mild endometriosis and otherwise unexplained insulin-induced hypoglycaemia in humans: infertility: K. BANCROFT, C. A. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS C. J. THOMPSON, I. R. JONES, M. WALKER, and M.ELSTEIN P. BAYLIS and P. KENDALL-TAYLOR Results of long-term continuous subcutaneous Effect of growth hormone on human sleep energy: octreotide administration in 14 patients with c. ASTROM and W. TROJABORG medullary thyroid carcinoma: E. MODIGLIANI, Growth hormone treatment in Turner’s syndrome: R. COHEN, S. JOANNIDIS, C. SIAME-MOUROT, short and long-term effects on metabolic parameters: J. M. GULIANA, G. CHARPENTIER, D. CASSUTO, G. HAEUSLER and H. FRISCH M. BENTATA PESSAYRE, A. TABARIN, P. ROGER, Half-life of exogenous growth hormone following P. CARON, P. J. GUILLAUSSEAU, J. D. LALAU, suppression of endogenous growth hormone secretion J. TOURNIAIRE, F. BAYARD, P. AUFEVRE, with somatostatin in type I (insulin-dependent) A. JAMES-DEIDIER and C. CALMETTES diabetes mellitus: P. E. MULLIS, B. R. PAL, Serum levels of free and bound testosterone in D. R. MATTHEWS, P. C. HINDMARSH, P. E. PHILLIPS hyperthyroidism: H. C. FORD, R. R. COOKE, and D. B. DUNGER E. A. KEIGHTLEY and C. M. FEEK A prospective examination of octreotide-induced The tubular maximum for calcium reabsorption: a gall-bladder changes in acromegaly: normal range in children: N. J. SHAW, J. WHEELDON R. C. EASTMAN, R. F. ARAKAKI, T. SHAWKER, and J. T. BROCKLEBANK R. SCHOCK, P. ROACH, R. J. COMI and Lack of linear relationship between hyperinsulinaemia P. GORDEN and hyperandrogenism: v. TOSCANO, P. BIANCHI, Impact of octreotide, a long-acting somatostatin R. BALDUCCI, R. GUGLIELMI, A. MANGIANTINI, analogue, on glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity C. LUBRANO and F. SCIARRA in acromegaly: K. K. Y. HO, A. B. JENKINS, Contraceptives containing desogestrel or S. M. FURLER, M. BORKMAN and levonorgestrel have different effects on serum D. J. CHISHOLM lipoproteins and post-heparin plasma lipase activities: Functional properties of a novel mutant thyroid R. KAUPPINEN-MAKELIN, T. KUUSI, 0. YLIKORKALA hormone receptor in a family with generalized thyroid and M. J. TIKKANEN hormone resistance syndrome: M. ADAMS, Case of the month Changes in stimulating and T. NAGAYA, Y. TONE, J. L. JAMESON and blocking TSH receptor antibodies in a patient Vv. K. K. CHATTERJEE undergoing three cycles of transition from hypo to Graves’ ophthalmopathy in relation to cigarette hyper-thyroidism and back to hypothyroidism: smoking and ethnic origin: M. TELLEZ, J. COOPER Z. KRAIEM, E. BARON, L. KAHANA, O. SADEH and and C. EDMONDS M. SHEINFELD with Commentary by R. HALL Case report Hypothyroidism and chemodectoma in Book reviews father and daughter: a new syndrome or a Notices coincidence?: W. HART and E. MAARTENSE Contents v Case of the month Cyclical Cushing’s syndrome first Failure of somatostatin analogue to control Cushing’s diagnosed after pituitary surgery: a trap for the syndrome in two cases in ACTH-producing carcinoid unwary: A. B. ATKINSON, D. R. MCCANCE, tumours: N. W. CHEUNG and S. C. BOYAGES L. KENNEDY and B. SHERIDAN with Commentary by Efficacy of a new long-acting injectable form of C. W. BURKE bromocriptine in hyperprolactinaemic patients: Rapid communication IGF binding protein 3 in M. D. PAGANI, F. TENGATTINI, M. MONTINI, patients with Laron type dwarfism: effect of G. PAGANI, A. PEDRONCELLI, D. GIANOLA, exogenous rIGF-I: Z. LARON, B. KLINGER, F. GHERARDI, N. MAZZOCCHI, L. CORTES! and W. F. BLUM, A. SILBERGELD and M. B. RANKE I. LANCRANJAN Book review Age-related changes in bone density, serum Clinical Endocrinology Trust travel study grants parathyroid hormone, calcium absorption and other Notices indices of bone metabolism in Chinese women: E. L. P. CHAN, E. LAU, C. C. SHEK, D. MACDONALD, J. WOO, P. C. LEUNG and R. SWAMINATHAN The incidence of late-onset congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 3f-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency among hirsute women: J. MATHIESON, B. COUZINET, S. WEKSTEIN-NOEL, K. NAHOUL, Volume 36, Number 4, April 1992 G. TURPIN and G. SCHAISON Investigation of adrenal function in women with 307 Review Autoimmune thyroiditis: predisposition and oligomenorrhoea and hirsutism (clinical PCOS) from pathogenesis: A. P. WEETMAN the north-east of England using an adrenal Current therapy Primary hyperparathyroidism: stimulation test: E. 1. TURNER, M. J. WATSON, aggressive or conservative treatment?: M. DAVIES L. A. PERRY and M. C. WHITE Commentary Computed tomography and magnetic Circulating immunoreactive inhibin and testosterone resonance imaging of pituitary microadenomas: levels in men with critical illness: QIHAN DONG, I. MOSELEY F. HAWKER, D. MCWILLIAM, M. BANGAH, The evaluation of patients with a suspected pituitary H. BURGER and D. J. HANDELSMAN microadenoma: computed tomography compared to Social, educational and vocational status of 48 young magnetic resonance imaging: M. R. JOHNSON, adult females with gonadal dysgenesis: 0. ARAN, R. D. HOARE, T. COX, J. M. DAWSON, A. GALATZER, R. KAULI, N. NAGELBERG, J. J. MACCABE, D. E. H. LLEWELYN and Y. ROBICSEK and Z. LARON A. M. MCGREGOR Changes in growth hormone concentrations during Age related changes in follicle stimulating hormone, puberty in adolescents with insulin dependent luteinizing hormone, oestradiol and immunoreactive diabetes: J. A. BATCH and G. A. WERTHER inhibin in women of reproductive age: Abnormalities of intermediary metabolism following J. MACNAUGHTON, M. BANAH, P. MCCLOUD, J. HEE a gestational diabetic pregnancy: Ss. P. CHAN, and H. BURGER S. V. GELDING, R. J. MCMANUS, J. S. D. NICHOLLS, Galanin reinstates the growth hormone response to V. ANYAOKU, R. NITHTHYANATHAN, repeated growth hormone-releasing hormone D. G. JOHNSTON and A. DORNHORST administration in man: E. ARVAT, E. GHIGO, The importance of adequate serum ferritin levels M. NICOLOSI, G. M. BOFFANO, J. BELLONE, W. YIN- during ora! cyproterone acetate and ethinyl oestradiol ZHANG, E. MAZZA and F. CAMANNI treatment of diffuse androgen-dependent alopecia in Growth hormone binding protein in Werner’s women: D. H. RUSHTON and I. D. RAMSAY syndrome: N. HATTORI, M. HINO, K. IKEKUBO, Case of the month Nelson’s syndrome following T. ISHIHARA, K. MORIDERA and H. KURAHACHI partial pituitary microadenomectomy and Preserved thyroidal secretion of thyroxine in pregnancy: D. IGOE, C. PIDGEON, J. DINN and acromegalic patients with suppressed hypophyseal T. J. MCKENNA secretion of thyrotrophin: M. YOSHINARI, Commentary T. A. HOWLETT T. TOKUYAMA, T. KURODA, K. SATO, K. OKAZAWA, 433 Book reviews T. MIZOKAMI, K. OKAMURA and M. FUJISHIMA 435 Notices vi Contents Volume 36, Number 5, May 1992 519 Case of the Month Primary adrenocortical failure masked by exogenous steroid administration: 437 Review Signal transduction in endocrine tissues: R. A. MARSTON J. R. E. DAVIS, S. P. BIDEY and S$. TOMLINSON Si 1 Letters to the Editors Commentary What is the cause of Cushing’s disease?: 5 5 3 Book reviews A. GROSSMAN 524 4 Notices Hypothalamic abnormalities in patients with pituitary-dependent Cushing’s syndrome: P. M. STEWART, R. PENN, R. GIBSON, R. HOLDER, A. PARTON, J. G. RATCLIFFE and D. R. LONDON Computerized tomography versus magnetic resonance imaging: a comparative study in hypothalamic- Volume 36, Number 6, June 1992 pituitary and parasellar pathology: s. M. WEBB, J. RUSCALLEDA, D. SCHWARZSTEIN, J. CALAF- ALSINA, A. ROVIRA, G. MATOS, M. PUIG-DOMINGO Review G-protein linking receptors: a family probed and A. DE LEIVA by molecular cloning and mutagenesis procedures: Reactivity to stress and psychological adjustment in M. D. HOUSLAY adults with pituitary insufficiency: B. STABLER, Commentary Postprandial thermogenesis and insulin J. R. TURNER, S. S. GIRDLER, K. C. LIGHT and sensitivity in the polycystic ovary syndrome: L. E. UNDERWOOD R. TAYLOR 5 Gonadotrophin secretion in vitro by cells of a Postprandial thermogenesis is reduced in polycystic pituitary tumour from a patient with multiple ovary syndrome and is associated with increased endocrine neoplasia type I: M. DANIELS, P. NEWLAND, insulin resistance: S. ROBINSON, S.-P. CHAN J. H. DEWAR, M. C. WHITE and P. KENDALL-TAYLOR S. SPACEY, V. ANYAOKU, D. G. JOHNSTON and Abnormalities of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal S. FRANKS axis after head injury: J. D. A. CLARK, Adrenocortical dysfunction in P. R. RAGGATT and O. M. EDWARDS paracoccidioidomycosis: comparison between plasma Differential effects of arginine on growth hormone f-lipotrophin/adrenocorticotrophin levels and releasing hormone and insulin induced growth adrenocortical tests: A. C. MOREIRA, R. MARTINEZ, hormone secretion: H. P. F. KOPPESCHAAR, M. CASTRO and L. L. K. ELIAS C. D. TEN HORN, J. H. H. THIJSSEN, M. D. PAGE, Increased testosterone but normal Sa-reduced C. DIEGUEZ and M. F. SCANLON testosterone metabolites in obese premenopausal Percutaneous ethanol injection treatment of women: V. A. GIAGULLI, G. DE PERGOLA, autonomous thyroid adenoma: hormonal and clinical F. GIORGINO, M. CIGNARELLI, G. ABBATICCHIO, evaluation: F. MONZANI, O. GOLETTI, N. CARACCIO, A. VERMEULEN and R. GIORGINO P. D. GUERRA, M. FERDEGHINI, E. PUCCI and Effects of chronic GnRH analogue administration on L. BASCHIERI gonadotrophin and «-subunit secretion in post- Re-evaluation of the captopril test for the diagnosis menopausal women: D. S. OPPENHEIM, H. BIKKAL, of primary hyperaldosteronism: C. HAMBLING, W. F. CROWLEY and A. KLIBANSKI R. T. JUNG, A. GUNN, M. C. K. BROWNING and 17B-Oestradiol, androstenedione and inhibin levels in W. A. BARTLETT fluid from individual follicles of normal and Follow-up of ovarian endocrine function in polycystic ovaries, and in ovaries from androgen premenopausal women after hysterectomy by daily treated female to male transsexuals: T. D. PACHE, measurements of salivary progesterone: W.C. J. HOP, F. H. DE JONG, R. A. LEERENTVELD, rT. VUORENTO, J. MAENPAA and I. HUHTANIEMI H. VAN GELDORP, T. M. M. VAN DE KAMP, Determination of bone mineral density by L. J. G. GOOREN and B. C. J. M. FAUSER quantitative computed tomography and single photon The effect of iodide on serum thyroid hormone levels absorptiometry in subclinical hyperthyroidism: a risk in normal persons, in hyperthyroid patients, and in of early osteopaenia in post-menopausal women: hypothyroid patients on thyroxine replacement: J. LEHMKE, U. BOGNER, D. FELSENBERG, H. PETERS G. PHILIPPOU, D. A. KOUTRAS, G. PIPERINGOS, and H. SCHLEUSENER A. SOUVATZOGLOU and Ss. D. MOULOPOULOS Contents vii 579 Effect of selenium supplementation on thyroid Expression of the neuroendocrine cell marker 7B2 in hormone metabolism in an iodine and selenium human ACTH secreting tumours: D. VIEAU, deficient population: B. CONTEMPRE, N. L. DUALE, C. G. LINARD, M. MBIKAY, F. LENNE, M. CHRETIEN, J. E. DUMONT, B. NGO, A. T. DIPLOCK and J. P. LUTON and X. BERTAGNA J. VANDERPAS Case of the Month Acromegaly and its treatment Evaluation of serum basal thyrotrophin levels and in the McCune-Albright syndrome: thyrotrophin receptor antibody activities as L. D. K. E. PREMAWARDHANA, J. P. VORA, R. MILLS prognostic markers for discontinuation of antithyroid and M. F. SCANLON Commentary: G. FAGLIA drug treatment in patients with Graves’ disease: Notices BO YOUN CHO, MIN HO SHONG, KA HEE YI, Referees HONG KYU LEE, CHANG-SOON KOH and HUN K! MIN Author index Pulsatile growth hormone release in normal women Subject index during the menstrual cycle: A. C. S. FARIA, L. W. BEKENSTEIN, R. A. BOOTH, V. A. VACCARO, C. M. ASPLIN, J. D. VELDHUIS, M. O. THORNER and W.S. EVANS