Katsuji Ikekubo

TL;DR: TSH-binding inhibitor immunoglobulins (TBII) have been detected in patients with Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis by using the radioreceptor assay of TSH, and in untreated Graves' patients, TBII levels correlated well with thyroidal 99mTc uptake at 30 min and the grade of epithelial hyperplasia of thyroid follicles.

TL;DR: BMIPP imaging may play a major role in increasing the understanding of the relationship between perfusion and wall motion, particularly in patients with acute myocardial infarction and those who received revascularization therapy.

TL;DR: Significant uptake of the tracer was found in the clinically palpable cervical tumor masses, metastatic sites, and residual tumor in patients with pathologically confirmed medullary thyroid carcinoma and elevated serum calcitonin values.

TL;DR: A novel homozygous missense mutation of MC4R (G98R) is reported in a nondiabetic Japanese woman with severe early-onset obesity, which is located in its second transmembrane domain, indicating a severe loss-of-function mutation.

TL;DR: Most patients with anti-PRL autoantibody lacked the clinical symptoms of hyperprolactinemia, such as amenorrhea and galactorrhea, and spontaneous pregnancy occurred despite the marked hyper Prolactinemic state, indicating that the biological activity of PRL was attenuated by the autoantIBody.