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Bone
Clinical case reports/Governance
Cytokines, growth factors, growth and development
Diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular
Endocrine tumours and neoplasia
Neuroendocrinology and behaviour
Pituitary
Reproduction
Steroids to include Cushing's
Thyroid

Bone
P1     Primary hyperparathyroidism - A great masquerader
J Muthukrishnan, A Verma, P Jagdish Kumar, KPatro, K Modi, S Jha, R Jha
P2 The effect of bisphosphonates on calcium and parathyroid hormone levels in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism over 2 years
M Knight, P Hyatt
P3 Growth hormone stimulates osteogenesis activity of alveolar bone derived-osteoblasts from adolescents
G Crippa, M Beloti, A Rosa
P4 Audit on the efficacy of intravenous Pamidronate in the treatment of osteoporosis
A Arefin, S Orme
Clinical case reports/Governance
P5 Adrenoleukodystrophy presenting with hypoadrenalism: Can it occur at any age?
H Creedon, A Yogendra, A Jennings
P6 Delayed onset hungry bone syndrome following parathyroidectomy in a patient taking high dose cinacalcet for primary hyperparathyroidism
N Smart, J Morgan
P7 Anaplastic astrocytoma co-existing with acromegaly: The first report
N Karavitaki, V Fazal-Sanderson, O Ansorge, J Wass
P8 Withdrawn
P9 An audit on the management of severe hyponatremia in a hospital population
H Siddique, R Kaja, P Daggett
P10 The investigation and management of critical hyponatraemia
R Quinton, R Veeratterapillay, D Neely
P11 Sporadic pancreatic somatostatinomas: 3 cases
A Brooke, T Cheung, K Metcalfe, E Carlsen, D Berney, S Bhattacharya, P Plowman, J Monson, WDrake
P12 Milk-alkali syndrome without milk
M Kaklamanos, E Lim, P Perros
P13 An androgen secreting ovarian tumour presenting in second trimester of pregnancy
N Lessan, G Abdul Aal, S Al-Mshari, S Tavangar, MHall
P14 Hirsuitism and amenorrhoea - Not always PCOS
S Rangan, A T ahrani, H Siddique, P Pickett, P Moulik
P15 Once weekly thyroxine as a treatment strategy in non-compliant hypothyroid patients
S Rangan, A Tahrani, P Pickett, A Macleod, PMoulik
P16 Successful management of hypercalcaemia and hypertension in pregnancy
A Banerjee, N Maguire, K Donoghue, M Dhanjal, CNelson-Piercy, C Williamson
P17 A case of thoracic cord ependymoma in neurofibromatosis Type 1
A Sharma, M Emery, K Metcalfe, H Sabin, W Drake
P18 Acromegaly with normal pituitary
P Murthy, P Davies
P19 Raised alpha-subunit does not always predict gonadotrophinoma in secondary hypergonadism
A Adjene, M Sharfi, A Panahloo, L Seal
P20 Systemic manifestations of inhaled corticosteroids - case reports of Cushing's syndrome and adernal suppression
G Simon, M Al-Mrayat
P21 An illustration of the potent anti-natriuretic effect of growth hormone
S Misra, W Drake, L Johnston
P22 Management of occult virilizing ovarian tumours in postmenopausal women
K Ashawesh, K Fernando, D Redford, D Barton
P23 A rare cause of self-neglect
N Duncan, N Iqbal, B Theron, H Maksoud
P24 Perforated duodenal ulcer may predict disease progression in subclinical Cushing's Syndrome
M Sharfi, A Adjene, A Sharma, A Panahloo, L Seal
P25 Infertility and osteopenia in a male patient with thyroid hormone resistance
J Kisalu, E Davies, A Solomon, P Bouloux
P26 Unusual causes of hypercalcaemia in a DGH
M Debono, R Banerjee
P27 Interfering antibodies can cause diagnostic confusion - A case report
S Roberts, J Todd
P28 Abdominal pain…Don't miss the endocrine case!
M Debono, R Banerjee
P29 Life threatening hypocalcemia after use of fleet phospho-soda in bowel preparation for routine colonoscopy - A case report
M Jayapaul, E Winkley, C Haigh, S Bennett
P30 A case of Gitelman's syndrome, a variant of Bartter's syndrome
A Arefin, D Nagi
P31 Severe hyponatremia and subsequent extra- pontine myelinolysis as a presentation of Addison's Disease.
C Strey, M Gurnell, K Chatterjee, D Woods, H Simpson
P32 Problems in the diagnosis of disorders of sex development
J Honour, R Stanhope, I Hughes, I Phillips
Cytokines, growth factors, growth and development
P33 Effects of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3 (rhIGFBP-3) on human malignant pleural mesothelioma cell growth
F Miraki-Moud, C Martinelli, C Camacho-Hübner
P34 Quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) as an early stage bioassay for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)
C Burns, C Robinson
P35 Effects of androgens on differentiation of human skeletal muscle-derived cells in vitro
A Solomon, A Sinanan, P Bouloux, M Lewis
Diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular
P36 The effects of sclerocarya birrea [(a.Rich.) Hochst.] [Anacardiaceae] stem-bark aqueous extract on blood glucose, kidney and cardiovascular function in rats
C Musabayane, M Gondwe, D Kamadyaapa, K Moodley, J Ojewole
P37 Effects of oral administration of some herbal extracts on food consumption and blood glucose in normal and streptozotocin (stz)- induced diabetic rats
C Musabayane, P Bwititi
P38 Relationship between insulin resistance and adipokines with body composition and glucose tolerance
F Khan, S Islam, Y Min, R Swaminathan, S Tait, C Lowy
P39 Principal component analysis for the assessment of metabolic syndrome features following gestational diabetes among women of three ethnic groups
E Kousta, I Godsland, J Jeffs, Z Efstathiadou, S Barrett, C Doré, M McCarthy, D Johnston
P40 Lipoatrophy can happen with any subcutaneous insulin
S Hussein, P Coates, G Green, H Siddique
P41 Type II diabetes mellitus presenting with diabetic ketoacidosis in a young obese caucasian male
S Hameed, T Lumbers, P Winocour
P42 Cannabinoid receptors in proliferation and differentiation of white and brown adipose tissues
N Agarwal, D Rees, M Ludgate
P43 What is the relationship between testosterone and fat mass in young male cancer survivors and healthy controls?
D Greenfield, S Walters, R Eastell, R Coleman, B Hancock, J Snowden, R Ross
P44 Redox status of a hyperglycaemic cell culture model of osteoblasts supplemented with bacterial LPS and minocycline
A Tilakaratne, M Soory
P45 Oxidative stress induced by TNF-alpha and glucose in an osteoblastic model and therapeutic implications of minocycline
M Soory, A Tilakaratne
P46 A novel syndrome of extreme insulin resistance, primordial dwarfism, and gonadal failure
R Semple, F Finucane, M O'Driscoll, F Regan, M Soos, P Stutchfield, J Davies, D Dunger, P Jeggo, J Nolan, S O'Rahilly
P47 Women gain weight and fat mass despite lipectomy at abdominoplasty and breast reduction
D Bulugahapitiya, A Rinomhota, S French, S Siyabalapitiya, C Caddy, R Griffith, R Ross
P48 Assessment of foot problem in patients with diabetes in primary care clinics
R Hosseini, H Baradaran, A Rasoli
P49 Relation of free and bound leptin and the soluble leptin receptor to metabolic and inflammatory responses in patients with liver cirrhosis
J Ockenga, U Tietge, M Bahr, G Brabant
P50 Evidence for a safe switch from human premixed insulin to BIAsp 30 in twice-daily regimens - data from the REACH study
P McNally, S Page, G Compion, J Lorains
P51 High glucose regulates SGK1 and alpha- ENAC expression in a human cortical collecting duct cell line
R Bland, C Hills, P Ronco, J Bennett, P Squires
P52 Screening for HNF1_ mutations in women with gestational diabetes and established diabetes in the diabetes antenatal clinic
A Syed, L Meer, J Dale
P53 Proglucagon processing can be altered to produce GLP-1 in pancreatic alpha cells
N James, L Pritchard, J Brennand, A White
P54 Prospective analysis of benefits of orthotic interventions in diabetic foot ulcers
N Iqbal, K Janaka, E Emmerson, A Fisher, P Kirby, JInnes, B Fairbrother, D Fernando
Endocrine tumours and neoplasia
P55 Audit of adrenal incidentaloma in Sunderland Royal Hospital
J Chapman, S Ray, I Malik
P56 Dopamine-secreting paraganglioneuroma - maintain high index of suspicion
R Mallina, G Simon, P Close, A Ma'en
P57 Parathyroid carcinoma - Consider it in a subset of presumed adenomas
P Pusalkar, J Tringham, E Bingham
P58 Conn's syndrome: Should all patients undergo adrenal vein sampling?
J Lau, R Reznek, M Matson, D Berney, R Carpenter, S Chew, A Grossman, P Jenkins, KMetcalfe, J Monson, W Drake
P59 Pheochromocytoma presenting as type-I diabetes mellitus
S Nair, S Hossain, P Winocour
P60 Rare presentation of neuroendocrine tumour
N Mohammed, A Banerjee
P61 Difficulties in management of hypercalcaemia in MEN1
H Miller, K Meeran, E Hatfield
P62 A case of non-islet cell tumour hypoglycaemia
S Nair, T Lumbers, I Gooding, P Winocour
P63 Spindle epithelial thyroid tumour with thymus-like differentiation (SETTLE) in a six year old boy: A case report
T Kurzawinski, A Fulmali, A Ramsay, W Muller, AGallimore
P64 A probable PTH- secreting metastatic breast carcinoma
P Kar, D Meeking
P65 Adrenal rest tumours in 11-b hydroxylase deficiency
T Dugal, K Laji
P66 Colocalisation of GH and FSH in the human fetal pituitary by confocal immunofluorescence microscopy
A Chirculescu, C Badiu, J Morris, M Coculescu
Neuroendocrinology and behaviour
P67 Salivary alpha-amylase: A potential surrogate marker for sympathetic activity
G Russell, S Lightman
P68 High cocoa polyphenol rich chocolate improves the symptoms of chronic fatigue
T Sathyapalan, P Campion, S Beckett, A Rigby, SAtkin
P69 Quinelorane activates oxytocin neurones in the hypothalamus during penile erection
T Baskerville, A Douglas
P70 Development of an automated blood sampling system for undisturbed blood sampling in humans
S Taheri, D Henley, J Leendertz, G Russell, SLightman
P71 The role of twenty four hours of daylight on sleep, appetite and cortisol: Is it a hard day's night?
D Tatovic, S Sharma, R Andrews
P72 Evidence of a possible role for Lys-gamma3- melanocyte stimulating hormone in the regulation of adipocyte function
S Harmer, D Pepper, A Bicknell
P73 Adrenomedullin in a rat model of multiple sclerosis
S Barker, R Mongru, C Bolton, C Paul
Pituitary
P74 Anaemia: A rare presenting feature of pituitary tumour
S Zachariah, A Rodin
P75 Suprasellar arachnoid cyst: A surgically reversible cause of hypothalamo-pituitary dysfunction
R Mallina, G Simon, P Close, M Al-Mrayat
P76 Effect of dietary iron deficiency anaemia on peripartum pituitary hormones
N Mathur, S Joshi, S Mathur
P77 An unusual case presentation of acromegaly
Y Nathan, D Russell-Jones
P78 Upregulation of Id1 and Id3 in response to BMP2 stimulation in LbT2 cells
P Hanson, K Sidhu, N Schwarz, T Milligan, J Burrin
P79 Combining GHRH/arginine with a Synacthen test diminishes the cortisol response
S Siyambalapitiya, D Bulugahapitiya, V Ibbotson, A Doane, E Ghigo, M Campbell, R Ross
P80 Long term follow-up of patients treated with Yttrium-90 implants for pituitary adenomas
S Manam, K Meeran, W Dhillo, J Todd
P81 Long term follow-up of patients with a non- functioning pituitary adenoma
K Uruthirakumaran, K Meeran, J Todd, W Dhillo
P82 Combined pituitary hormone deficiency secondary to suspected PIT-1 mutation
M Haq, G Bano, S Nussey
P83 Pituitary macroadenomas: Are combination antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy contraindicated?
T Tan, C Caputo, A Mehta, E Hatfield, N Martin, KMeeran
P84 Cinderella's story: The psychosocial impact of pituitary conditions
M Osbourne, S Jackson, M Morris, K Ashley
P85 "Cinderella's Unhappy": An objective measure of the psychological impact of pituitary conditions
L Klingbeil, S Jackson, M Morris, K Ashley
P86 Growth hormone deficiency and complex congenital abnormalities: A further case of Stratton-Parker syndrome?
M Simmgen, G Bano, S Nussey
P87 ACTH hyperplasia and prolactinoma in MEN 1
C Caputo, N Martin, F Roncaroli, J Todd, K Meeran
P88 Massively elevated serum prolactin without galactorrhoea in man with a giant prolactinoma
B Ravikumar, M Newby, G Handley, J Weaver
P89 Assessment of subjective daytime sleepiness using the Epworth Sleepiness Scale in acromegalic patients
S Roberts, K Meeran, J Todd
P90 Cabergoline is an effective and well tolerated primary and adjunctive treatment for acromegaly
V Moyes, K Metcalfe, W Drake
P91 Metastatic lung carcinoma presenting as hypopituarism
B Theron, N Iqbal, H Maksoud, N Duncan
Reproduction
P92 Continuous administration of kisspeptin-54 leads to desensitisation of the hypothalamo- pituitary-gonadal axis and testicular degeneration
G Appleby, E Thompson, K Murphy, M Patterson, G Bewick, G Stamp, J Todd, M Ghatei, S Bloom
P93 Continuation rate and reasons of early removal of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system
S Daud, A Ewies
P94 Patient satisfaction with the levonorgestrel- releasing intrauterine system
S Daud, A Ewies
P95 Characterisation of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11betaHSD) expression and activity in the pre- and post-pubertal porcine (Sus scrofa) testis and male reproductive tract
V Sharp, R Fowkes, L Thurston, A Michael
P96 Adult survivors of haematological malignancies with premature ovarian failure (POF) secondary to multimodality cancer therapy have normal bone mass
S Clay, E Ward, G Cook, R Murray
P97 The effect of oestrogens on BMD of patients with premature ovarian failure (POF) resulting from multi-modality cancer therapy
S Clay, E Ward, G Cook, R Murray
P98 Polyunsaturated fatty acids in vivo and in vitro affect expression of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein in steroidogenic tissues
L Hodges, E Chin, J Nadaffy, J Brickell, Z Cheng, ESheldrick, A Flint, D Wathes, D Abayasekara
P99 Are anti-Müllerian hormone levels and antral follicle count related to lifestyle factors, demographics and reproductive history in subfertile women?
L Nardo, D Christodoulou, .Gould, C Fitzgerald, I Laing
P100 Peripheral plasma thyroid hormone concentrations during pregnancy in Black Bengal goats
S Mondal, A Minj, M Pathak, V Varshney
P101 The effects of feeding an n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) rich diet on ovarian function in the Welsh mountain ewe
J Naddafy, E Chin, Z Cheng, J Brickell, D Wathes, DAbayasekara
P102 The effect of leptin on maturation of the ovarian follicles of albino rats - An electron microscopic study
M Elshafie, G Fouad, A Ewies
P103 Leptin accelerating effect on the puberty of female albino rats - Immunohistochemical and cytological data
M Elshafie, G Fouad, A Ewies
P104 Population reference ranges for plasma testosterone and calculated free testosterone in older men
Y Teoh, A Wallace
P105 Effect of ghrelin on mean plasma concentrations of luteinizing hormone, insulin and glucose in dairy goat
H Khazali
P106 Preliminary investigation on the effects of prostaglandin EP2 and EP4 agonists on isolated uterus from non-pregnant and pregnant mice
A Griffiths, K Marshall, J Senior, D Woodward
P107 Prevalence of assay interference in women with high testosterone levels
B Ravikumar, G Handley, J Weaver, C Oxynos, KNarayanan
P108 The effect of smoking on prostaglandin (PG) biosynthesis and responsiveness in isolated human umbilical artery
K Marshall, N Duckworth, N Sumar, K Fleming, AScott
P109 Altered natural anti-microbial expression in the uterine decidua of ectopic compared to intra-uterine pregnancy
D Dalgetty, W Tham, H Critchley, J Sallenave, AWilliams, A Horne
P110 The effect of different exogenous hormone regimes on body weight in female hooded- Lister rats
J Sutcliffe, K Marshall, J Neill
P111 Endocrine evaluation of gynaecomastia
K Ashawesh, A Chakrabarty, T Usman, D Barton
P112 Functional pharmacology of prostaglandin EP agonists in isolated human myometrium from term pregnant donors
D Fischer, D Farrar, P O'Donovan, J Senior, DWoodward, K Marshall
P113 Comparison of metformin, orlistat and pioglitazone in treatment of polycystic ovarian syndrome
L Cho, E Kilpatrick, S Holding, S Atkin
P114 Effect of serum testosterone concentrations on outcome of induction of ovulation by low-dose FSH in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
A Gorry, D White, S Franks
P115 Does metformin act via AMPK in the ovary?
L Pellatt, J Scott, S Rice, S Mason
Steroids to include Cushing's
P116 Cushing's syndrome secondary to recurrent olfactory neuroblastoma
M Butt, S Olczak
P117 An audit of diagnosis and management of Cushing's syndrome in a district general hospital
A Farooq, T Abdalla, D Wilton, A Wayte, K Griffiths, N Khan, A Wilton
P118 Current practice regarding the diagnosis of Cushing's disease: Survey at the European Congress of Endocrinology 2006
R Llewellyn, N Martin, K Meeran
P119 Determination of xenobiotic glucocorticoids by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for clinical purposes
C Walker, D Cowan, N Taylor, A Kicman
P120 Fluticasone-induced adrenal suppression in an HIV positive patient is reversed by substitution with Beclomethasone
M Moqsith, A El-Dalil, J Dale
P121 Role of glucocorticoids and AMPK in the regulation of lipogenesis and glycerogenesis in mesenteric adipose tissue
F Lolli, M Christ-Crain, B Kola, G Wittman, C Fekete, A Grossman, M Korbonits
P122 Withdrawn
Thyroid
P123 Effect of dietary iron deficiency anaemia on TSH and peripartum thyroid function
N Mathur, S Joshi, S Mathur
P124 Hypothyroid associated Deafness
D Comer, E McConnell
P125 Red ears and blue hands in thyroid clinic- anti-thyroid medication causing rare connective tissue diseases
J Platts, J Gopalappa
P126 Identifying risk factors for relapse in Graves' disease: A retrospective study
A Jivanjee, N Martin, K Meeran
P127 Diagnosing hypopituitarism from suggestive thyroid function tests
D Preiss, L Todd
P128 Pulverised thyroxine could be the answer
A Elmalti, P Hammond
P129 Does lithium administered with radioiodine therapy improve the cure rate for thyrotoxicosis?
G Nijher, S Skennerton, K Meeran
P130 Use of a telephone clinic to follow up patients treated with radioactive iodine for thyrotoxicosis
S Skennerton, G Nijher, W Dhillo, K Meeran
P131 Two cases of thyrotoxic hypokalaemic periodic paralysis
K Dukhan, H Sawers, S Sawers
P132 Thyroid eye disease in patients treated with radio-iodine
M Banerjee, J Hill, A Lakhdar
P133 Does L-thyroxine reduce weight in people with subclinical hypothyroidism?
S Razvi, S Pearce, J Weaver
P134 MELAS syndrome (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes) and thyrotoxicosis
C Caputo, D Devendra, G Williams, A Dornhurst
P135 Tri-iodothyronine neuronal entry defect: A rare cause of x-linked mental retardation
T Dugal, M McEntagart, A Albanese