Osteoporotic fractures are the result of low density and especially inferior bone quality (microarchitecture) caused by both internal (genes, hormones) and external (life style) influences. Bone mechanosensors are extremely important for the overall integrity of the skeleton, because in response to mechanical load they activate its modeling, resulting in an increase in bone density and strength. The largest physiological loads are caused by muscle contractions. Bone mass in adult men has a closer relationship to muscle mass than is case in women. The sexual differences in the relationship between bone and muscle mass are also apparent in children. Based on the mechanostatic theory, the muscle-bone unit has been defined as a functional system whose components are under the common control of the hormones of the somatotropin-IGF-I axis, sexual steroids, certain adipose tissue hormones and vitamin D. The osteogenic effects of somatotropin-IGF-I system are based on the stimulation of bone formation, as well as increase in muscle mass. Moreover, somatotropin decreases the bone mechanostat threshold and reinforces the effect of physical stress on bone formation. The system, via the muscle-bone unit, plays a significant role in the development of the childhood skeleton as well as in its stability during adulthood. The muscle and bone are also the targets of androgens, which increase bone formation and the growth of muscle mass in men and women, independently of IGF-I. The role of further above-mentioned hormones in regulation of this unified functional complex is also discussed., I. Žofková., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
Perinatal (1-2 days of age) and one-month-old (24-32 days of age) male goats were used to investigate the effect of age and long-term culture (24 h) of perirenal and omental adipose explants in the presence of insulin, cortisol and bovine somatotropin (alone or in different combinations) on net glucose-stimulated lipogenesis (NGSL, i.e. the rate of lipogenesis in the presence of glucose minus the rate of lipogenesis in the absence of glucose) in the absence and in the presence of catecholamines in acute incubations (2 h). Mean values of NGSL in both freshly prepared and cultured explants were consistently lower in perinatal than in one-month-old goats. Cortisol alone decreased and combinations of insulin plus cortisol increased NGSL in perirenal explants of one-month-old animals. When perirenal explants from these one-month-old goats were cultured in the presence of insulin plus cortisol plus bovine somatotropin, the rates of lipogenesis were lower than those in cultures with insulin plus cortisol. No such effects of these hormones were noted in omental explants of both perinatal and one-month-old animals. In freshly prepared perirenal and omental explants, the rates of NGSL were inhibited by isoprenaline in tissues of both groups of animals and by noradrenaline in omental tissues of animals of the older group only. The mean values of NGSL in cultured explants of perinatal animals were not affected by noradrenaline. Isoprenaline inhibited NGSL in omental but not in perirenal tissue. In older animals the rates of NGSL were decreased by both noradrenaline and isoprenaline in perirenal and omental adipose tissues. Isoprenaline was more effective than noradrenaline in perirenal adipose tissue., J. Škarda., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Chronické zápalové choroby čreva (inflammatory bowel disease – IBD) vyvolávajú v organizme početné extraintestinálne prejavy, a to v dôsledku spoločnej etiopatogenézy, chronického systémového zápalu, častých porúch výživy a liečby. Jedným z prejavov sú i zmeny endokrinného systému. Interakcia je vzájomná, Crohnova choroba a ulcerózna kolitída spôsobujú funkčné a morfologické zmeny endokrinne aktívnych orgánov, na druhej strane endokrinné funkčné poruchy často negatívne zasahujú do priebehu črevnej choroby. V článku rozoberáme súvis IBD s produkciou pohlavných hormónov a fertilitou, súvis s adrenálnou funkciou, funkciou a morfológiou štítnej žľazy, produkciou rastového hormónu a poruchami rastu u detí, a znížením kostnej denzity. Táto téma nie je v mnohých aspektoch dostatočne preskúmaná a vyžaduje ďalšie analýzy a objasnenia. Kľúčové slová: Crohnova choroba – endokrinný systém – ulcerózna kolitída – zápalové choroby čreva, Inflammatory bowel disease is often accompanied by extraintestinal manifestations due to a common autoimmune etiopathogenesis, chronic systemic inflammation, frequent nutrition deficits, and the treatment. Endocrine system changes belong to manifestations too. Interaction is mutual, Crohn´s disease and ulcerative colitis cause functional and morphological changes of endocrine tissues. On the other hand the endocrine disorders negatively influence the course of bowel disease. In the article we analyze correlation of IBD with gonadal hormone production and fertility, with adrenal function, with the function and morphology of the thyroid, with growth hormone production and growth disorders in children, and with bone mineral density reduction. This topic is not studied enough and needs more analysis and clarification. Key words: Crohn´s disease – endocrine system – inflammatory bowel disease – ulcerative colitis, and Jana Kollerová, Tomáš Koller, Tibor Hlavatý, Juraj Payer
We measured hormonal levels in blood samples from pulmonary and radial arteries in 117 patients undergoing aorto-coronary by-pass surgery with the aim of investigating the role of the pulmonary vessel endothelium in hormone metabolism. Insulin and glucagon concentrations were significantly higher in pulmonary artery blood with respect to radial artery blood (73±65 vs. 65±47 pmol/l, p<0.005, and 80+49 vs. 73+51 ng/l, p<0.01, respectively), while no difference was found for growth hormone, prolactin, C peptide, insulin-like growth factor I, follicle stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone, parathyroid hormone, thyroglobulin, triiodothyronine, thyroxine, free triiodothyronine, and free thyroxine. Moreover, prolactin concentrations were more than twice the normal levels, this being an effect of propafol and the opiate fentanyl used for the general anesthesia. Assuming that the arteriovenous differences observed are a marker of peptide hormone degradation, our study has demonstrated that with similar kinetics insulin and glucagon secreted into portal circulation and escaping from hepatic extraction undergo further homeostatic removal of about 9-10 % in the pulmonary circulation before entering the general circulation., G. Aliberti, I. Pulignano, M. Proietta, F. Miraldi, L. Cigognetti, L. Tritapepe, C. Di Giovanni, R. Arzilla, E. Vecci, M. Toscano., and Obsahuje bibliografii
Ačkoliv jsou neutrina nejpočetnějšími hmotnými částicemi ve vesmíru, jejich klidovou hmotnost dosud neznáme. Mezinárodní experiment KATRIN, jehož spoluzakladateli a aktivními účastníky jsou i vědci z Ústavu jaderné fyziky AV ČR, nedávno zjistil, že půl milionu neutrin je lehčích než jeden elektron, který je druhou nejlehčí elementární částicí., Although neutrinos are the most numerous massive particles in the universe their rest mass is still not known. The international experiment KATRIN, whose co-founders and active participants are scientists from the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czech Acad. Sci., proved recently that five hundred thousand neutrinos weight less than one electron, which is the second lightest elementary particle., and Otokar Dragoun, Drahoslav Vénos.
The study aims at presenting the development of research on the upper level of bourgeois society in Czech historiography. It focuses on the comparison of crucial terms used in these discussions, such as patriciate, notables and elites., Josef Kadeřábek., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
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