ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018; 97: 156–163.Anxiety disorders are common in childhood and adolescence and the transition from childhood to adolescence seems to be a vulnerable period for the development of anxiety symptoms. This article elucidates the impact of androgens (DHEA, DHEAS and testosterone) on functional connectivity of the amygdala while ...

Pediatr Diabetes. 2018 May 15. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12691There is a small but significant debate as to whether or not type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are the same disease with albeit different course. It might therefore be prudent to include into a chapter on T1D a publication on T2D. This study aimed to describe recent medication patterns and changes in medication patterns and glycemic con...

To read the full abstract: Int J Obes 2019; 43(2): 384–91Studies regarding brown adipose tissue (BAT) activity in children are scarce due to the difficulties in detecting BAT by imaging and the need for elaborate techniques to measure BAT activity. Here, prepubertal children born small for gestational age (SGA, n=41) and children born appropriate for gestational age (AGA, <...

To read the full abstract: Cell Rep 2019; 27(5): 1528–40These authors used FACS cell sorting, gene expression profiling, and metabolic and proteomic analyses to identify three distinct adipocyte progenitor cell (APCs) subtypes that reside in human white adipose tissues. Although they retain comparable differentiation capacity, they have different molecular profiles and give rise to ...

To read the full abstract: Development 2017;144:3289-3302Aberrant development of the anterior pituitary can lead to congenital hypopituitarism (CH) in humans and hence understanding how this organ develops is critical to understand CH. The anterior pituitary develops in intimate contact with the prospective hypothalamus, which secretes growth factors that are required for the pituitary gland to grow...

To read the full abstract: J Clin Invest 2017;127:4326-4337Mutations in the Krüppel-like zinc finger transcription factor GLI-similar 3 (GLIS3) have first been associated with a syndrome combining two rare genetic endocrine diseases, namely neonatal diabetes and congenital hypothyroidism (OMIM #610199)1. Since then, 12 patients have been reported so far with a broad spect...

To read the full abstract: Arch Dis Child 2018;103:637-642Management of thyrotoxicosis in children and adolescents remains challenging and treatment varies considerably among institutions. The patient’s age, clinical status and likelihood of remission should be considered when counseling patients and parents. Nevertheless, individual prognosis of antithyroid drug treated Graves’ diseas...

To read the full abstract: J Pediatr 2017; 187:206-12SRS is a clinically heterogeneous imprinting disorder. Although the understanding of its genetic basis has gradually advanced, about 40% of patients still have an unknown molecular defect. In subjects with unknown etiology, diagnosis is primarily clinical, based upon the Netchine-Harbison scoring system (NH-CSS) [31]. How...

To read the full abstract: Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2018; 115(17) E3914-E3921Pediatric endocrinologists have long known that chronic disease, such as severe asthma or inflammatory bowel disease, leads to slower growth and short stature. But it is not always clear whether this is due to the disease (decreased oxygen to the tissues, decreased absorption of calories, infections), to the treatment (c...

Brief summary: The sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) is the first and limiting step for thyroid hormone synthesis (1). NIS is located at the basolateral membrane of the thyroid follicular cells. NIS translocates iodide against its electrochemical gradient from the blood into the cytosol of the thyroid follicular cell by a co-transport with sodium. Besides iodide, the sodium/iodide symporter has also further substrates such as the environmental endocrine disruptor perchlorate, or s...