ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: J Clin Invest. 2020;130(5):2209–2219. doi: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31961826/This clinical study addressed the chronic effects of the β3-adrenergic receptor agonist mirabegron on BAT activity, blood parameters, and insulin sensitivity in a small cohort of healthy women (n =14). Participants were treated for 4 weeks orally with mirabegron ...

To read the full abstract: Cell Metab. 2020 Jun 2;31(6):1120-1135.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.cmet.2020.04.013.This experimental rodent study of a PEGylated amphetamine (PEGyAMPH) designed to not cross the blood brain barrier is interesting for 2 reasons. First, it shows that its peripheral anti-obesity effects alone (without the central anorexic effects of amphetamine) are sufficient to achieve...

To read the full abstract: Nat Commun 2019;10:343This paper reports many loci associated with chronotype (i.e. being a ‘morning person’ or ‘evening person’) in a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 697, 828 participants from the UK Biobank and 23andMe cohorts. The link between chronotype and sleep timing and quality is well known. It was therefore interestin...

JAMA. 2018 Sep 11;320(10):1005–1016. doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.11628.The aims of this study were to assess whether in utero exposure to untreated gestational diabetes (using the IADPSG criteria) is associated with long-term risk of a disorder of glucose metabolism among mothers and greater adiposity among their children at 10 to 14 years post-partum.The Hyperglycem...

Nature 2019;567:187–193.URL https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-0984-ySummary: Novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in the blood that can predict early fatty liver disease were identified, using a proteomic and lipidomic-wide systems genetic approach in 107 genetically distinct mouse strains. In addition, the novel lipid-regulatory protein, PSMD9, was identified as...

To read the full abstract: Cell. 2018 Dec 13;175(7):1756–1768.e17.Irisin, a cytokine secreted by muscle during exercise, effects bone resorption and the differentiation of preadipocytes into thermogenic brown fat cells by displacing tethers between the cell and extracellular matrix molecules. Physical activity can reverse age-dependent decline in skeletal muscle, preventing osteopor...

To read the full abstract: Hum Mol Genet. 2018 Jan 15;27(2):359-372See comment on 7.11...

To read the full abstract: EMBO Mol Med. 2017 Oct;9(10):1379-1397[Comments on 7.10 and 7.11] During embryonic development, GnRH neurons originate in the olfactory placode and migrate through the nasal mesenchyme using the olfactory/vomeronasal axons as a scaffold to reach their final destination in the basal forebrain1,2. Th...

Brief summary: This French retrospective observational study evaluated ovarian function, premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) and spontaneous pregnancy in 178 women who had undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for leukemia before puberty; 116/178 had received total body irradiation (TBI) and 62 had received a busulfan-based conditioning regimen.Sixty percent of women needed pubertal induction; only 40% had spontaneous menarche and ha...

Brief summary: This French multicenter prospective study analyzed uterine volume by pelvic MRI in 88 women (age range 18–40 years), who were survivors of childhood acute leukemia treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). They were compared to 88 healthy women matched for age and parity.Conditioning regimens before HSCT included alkylating agents for 34 women and total body irradiation (TBI) for 54 women. Scans were centralized and...