ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Int J Obes (2005) 2018; 42(11):1834–1844This paper presents the results of a multidisciplinary expert workshop to identify current knowledge and more importantly current gaps in knowledge on the epidemiological and biopsychosocial determinants of obesity and its optimal treatment approaches.Childhood obesity is a global ...

J Endocrinol. 2020 May;245(2):315–326. doi: 10.1530/JOE-20-0012. PMID: 32171178.As it is not possible to study the histology of the pancreas post-partum in humans, this study used a mouse model of mild glucose intolerance to assess the changes in pancreatic islets after post-partum and assess the impact of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Mice with glucose intolerance during pregnancy continue...

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2021 Aug 18;106(9):e3495-e3505. doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgab357. PMID: 34010394https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-abstract/106/9/e3495/6278376Brief Summary: This prospective interventional study evaluates the stimulation of inhibin B by exogenous FSH as a promising predictor of spontaneous ...

To read the full abstract: JAMA. 2019 Aug 27;322(8):736–745. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.11889Two legs good, four legs better? Vitamin D supplementation is widely recommended in various national guidelines at doses of 400 to 2000 iu per day in children and adults for its benefits on bone health. So you might think that more would be even better? At least 3% of US adults agree with this ext...

To read the full abstract: Nat Commun. 2019 Aug 16;10(1):3696. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11667-y. PMID: 31420539.The hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) controls crucial physiological processes, such as growth, reproduction and energy homeostasis. However, it is unknown how ARC neurons gain their unique cellular identities and what are their developmental relationships. Here, the authors i...

Nat Commun. 2021 Jan 11;12(1):256. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20511-7. PMID: 33431871.These authors report two Mll4 mutant mouse models that exhibited dwarfism and altered development of GHRH−neurons.Inactivating mutations in KDM6A (aka UTX) or KMT2D (aka MLL4) genes result in Kabuki syndrome (KS), whose hallmarks in...

To read the full abstract: Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism vol. 105,3 (2020):754–768. doi: https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/105/3/754/5624050The authors used state-of-the-art liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry to establish sex-specific reference ranges for estrone (E1) and estradiol (E2) throughout life and evaluate sex-differences.</...

In Brief: Current dogma is that lymphatic vessels are absent in bone and bone marrow. Using advanced 3D-imaging and mouse genetics, these authors show the presence of lymph vessels in bone. Moreover, they show that genotoxic stress causes lymph vessels expansion and lymphangiogenesis in bone, which in turn promotes bone and hematopoietic regeneration.Commentary: The lymphatic system maintains fluid homeostasis, removes cellular waste products and produce...

To read the full abstract: EBioMedicine. 2019 Apr;42:470–480. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.03.013. Epub 2019 Mar 14. PMID: 30878599.Is everyone familiar with the MEHMO syndrome (OMIM #300148)? MEHMO is an acronym for mental retardation, epileptic seizures, hypogonadism and hypogenitalism, microcephaly, and obesity. Previous studies show that patients with MEHMO carrying hemizygous se...

To read the full abstract: Nat Commun. 2020 Feb 7;11(1):764.The signaling pathways involved in the regulation of early human development are largely unknown and the IGF system has been proposed to play a major role (1). The knowledge of mechanisms and actors involved in early life development is crucial to develop successful strategies for maintaining pluripotent human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).This sophisticated study ...