endocrine disorders
Research Topic
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is one of the worldwide most chronic endocrine disorders.
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a multi-symptom disorder linked with a range of metabolic and hormonal disturbances.
- The potential for a variety of environmental contaminants to disturb endocrine function in wildlife and humans has been of recent concern.
- Diabetes mellitus and thyroid dysfunction are two endocrine disorders that can affect each other, and the effects of which are poorly understood until now.
- Androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is a disorder of male sexual development caused by an absent or dysfunctional AR.
- Isolated gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) deficiency, including Kallmann's syndrome (KS) and idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH), is a congenital disorder, which is characterized by a functional deficit in hypothalamic GnRH secretion.
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is an inherited disorder of steroid biosynthesis most often attributable to mutations in CYP21 (also termed CYP21A2) encoding the active steroid 21-hydroxylase enzyme.