Online Reviews 2008

REVIEW
Márcia Santos Wagner, Simone Magagnin Wajner, and Ana Luiza Maia
The role of thyroid hormone in testicular development and function
Journal of Endocrinology 199 351-365 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Meng-Lei Zhu and Natasha Kyprianou
Androgen receptor and growth factor signaling cross-talk in prostate cancer cells 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 841-849 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Douglas J Kojetin, Thomas P Burris, Elwood V Jensen, and Sohaib A Khan
Implications of the binding of tamoxifen to the coactivator recognition site of the estrogen receptor
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 871-884 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
George H Sakorafas, Helmut Friess, and George Peros
The genetic basis of hereditary medullary thyroid cancer: clinical implications for the surgeon, with a particular emphasis on the role of prophylactic thyroidectomy
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 885-903 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Gregory A Kaltsas, Jane Evanson, Alexandra Chrisoulidou, and Ashley B Grossman
The diagnosis and management of parasellar tumours of the pituitary
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 885-903 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Annamaria Colao, Carolina Di Somma, Rosario Pivonello, Antongiulio Faggiano, Gaetano Lombardi, and Silvia Savastano
Medical therapy for clinically non-functioning pituitary adenomas
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 905-915 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Carl Weidinger, Kerstin Krause, Antje Klagge, Stefan Karger, and Dagmar Fuhrer
Forkhead box-O transcription factor: critical conductors of cancer's fate 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 917-929 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Cyrus Chargari, Lionel Védrine, Oliver Bauduceau, Sylvestre Le Moulec, Bernard Ceccaldi, and Nicolas Magné
Reapprasial of the role of endocrine therapy in meningioma management 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 931-941 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Jyotsna B Pippal and Peter J Fuller
Structure–function relationships in the mineralocorticoid receptor 
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 41 405-413 (December 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
H Gharib, E Papini, and R Paschke
Thyroid nodules: a review of current guidelines, practices, and prospects 
European Journal of Endocrinology 159 493-505 (November 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Gordon J Allan, James Beattie, and David J Flint
Epithelial injury induces an innate repair mechanism linked to cellular senescence and fibrosis involving IGF-binding protein-5
Journal of Endocrinology 199 155-164 (November 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Alessandro Peri and Mario Serio
Neuroprotective effects of the Alzheimer's disease-related gene seladin-1 
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 41 251-261 (November 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Stephen Safe and Kyoungkim Kim
Non-classical genomic estrogen receptor (ER)/specificity protein and ER/activating protein-1 signaling pathways 
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 41 263-275 (November 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Ivan Quesada, Eva Tudurí, Cristina Ripoll, and Ángel Nadal
Physiology of the pancreatic α-cell and glucagon secretion: role in glucose homeostasis and diabetes
Journal of Endocrinology 199 5-19 (October 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Andreas Mueller and Louis Gooren
Hormone-related tumors in transsexuals receiving treatment with cross-sex hormones
European Journal of Endocrinology 159 197-202 (September 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Hira Lal Goel, Jing Li, Sophia Kogan, and Lucia R Languino
Integrins in prostate cancer progression 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 657-664 (September 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Joanna M Day, Helena J Tutill, Atul Purohit, and Michael J Reed
Design and validation of specific inhibitors of 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases for therapeutic application in breast and prostate cancer, and in endometriosis 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 665-692 (September 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Asterios Karagiannis, Konstantinos Tziomalos, Anna I Kakafika, Vasilios G Athyros, Faidon Harsoulis, and Dimitri P Mikhailidis
Medical treatment as an alternative to adrenalectomy in patients with aldosterone-producing adenomas
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 693-700 (September 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg, Ilan Shimon, Márta Korbonits, and Ashley B Grossman
Somatostatin analogues in the control of neuroendocrine tumours: efficacy and mechanisms 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 701-720 (September 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Fateme Salehi, Kalman Kovacs, Bernd W Scheithauer, Ricardo V Lloyd, and Michael Cusimano
Pituitary tumor-transforming gene in endocrine and other neoplasms: a review and update 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 721-743 (September 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Peter J King, Leonardo Guasti and Ed Laufer
Hedgehog signalling in endocrine development and disease
Journal of Endocrinology 198 439-450 (September 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Shereen Ezzat and Sylvia L Asa
The emerging role of the Ikaros stem cell factor in the neuroendocrine system 
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 41 45-51 (August 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Rene F Chun, John S Adams, and Martin Hewison
Back to the future: a new look at 'old' vitamin D
Journal of Endocrinology 198 261-269 (August 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Tianru Jin
Mechanisms underlying proglucagon gene expression 
Journal of Endocrinology 198 17-28 (July 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Luc F Van Gaal, Stephen W Gutkin, and Michael A Nauck
Exploiting the antidiabetic properties of incretins to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus: glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists or insulin for patients with inadequate glycemic control?
European Journal of Endocrinology 159 773-784 (June 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Joanna E Burdette
in vivo imaging of molecular targets and their function in endocrinology
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 40 253-261 (June 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Inmaculada C Villar, Adrian J Hobbs, and Amrita Ahluwalia
Sex differences in vascular function: implication of endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor
Journal of Endocrinology 197 447-462 (June 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Shyh-Han Tan and Marja T Nevalainen
Signal transducer and activator of transcription 5A/B in prostate and breast cancers 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 367-390 (June 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Maurizio Bifulco, Anna Maria Malfitano, Simona Pisanti, and Chiara Laezza
Endocannabinoids in endocrine and related tumours 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 391-408 (June 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Thorvardur R Halfdanarson, Joseph Rubin, Michael B Farnell, Clive S Grant, and Gloria M Petersen
Pancreatic endocrine neoplasms: epidemiology and prognosis of pancreatic endocrine tumors 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 409-427 (June 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
David P Macfarlane, Shareen Forbes, and Brian R Walker
Glucocorticoids and fatty acid metabolism in humans: fuelling fat redistribution in the metabolic syndrome 
Journal of Endocrinology 197 189-204 (May 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Marcel E Dinger, Timothy R Mercer, and John S Mattick
RNAs as extracellular signaling models
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 40 151-159 (April 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
O Schakman, H Gilson, and J P Thissen
Mechanisms of glucocorticoid-induced myopathy 
Journal of Endocrinology 197 1-10 (April 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Jack-Michel Renoir, Celine Bouclier, Amelie Seguin, Veronique Marsaud and Brigitte Sola
Antioestrogen-mediated cell cycle arrest and apoptosis induction in breast cancer and multiple myeloma cells
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 40 101-112 (March 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
László Szidonya, Miklós Cserzo, and László Hunyady
Dimerization and oligomerization of G-protein-coupled receptors: debated structures with established and emerging functions
Journal of Endocrinology 196 435-453 (March 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
T M Murphy, A S Perry, and M Lawler
The emergence of DNA methylation as a key modulator of aberrant cell death in prostate cancer
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 11-25 (March 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Riccardo Ponzone, Paola Mininanni, Elisa Cassina, Francesca Pastorino, and Piero Sismondi
Aromatase inhibitors for breast cancer: different structures, same effects?
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 27-36 (March 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
M M Muresan, P Olivier, J Leclère, F Sirveaux, L Brunaud, M Klein, R Zarnegar, and G Weryha
Bone metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinoma
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 37-49 (March 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Dolly Thomas, Susan Friedman, and Reigh-Yi Lin
Thyroid stem cells: lessons from normal development and thyroid cancer
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 51-58 (March 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Eric Glasgow and Lopa Mishra
Transforming growth factor-β signaling and ubiquitinators in cancer 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 59-72 (March 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
P Hadji
Menopausal symptoms and adjuvant therapy-associated adverse events 
Endocrine-Related Cancer 15 73-90 (March 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Mariëlle J F Bult, Thijs van Dalen, and Alex F Muller
Surgical treatment of obesity
European Journal of Endocrinology 158 135-145 (February 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Thierry Brun and Benoit R Gauthier
A focus on the role of Pax4 in mature pancreatic islet beta-cell expansion and in health and disease
Journal of Molecular Endocrinology 40 37-45 (February 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]

REVIEW
Antonius Plagge, Gavin Kelsey, and Emily L Germain-Lee
Physiological functions of the imprinted Gnas locus and its protein variants Gs and XLs in human and mouse 
Journal of Endocrinology 196 193-214 (February 2008) [Abstract/FREE full text]