ESPE Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology

To read the full abstract: Endocrinology vol. 161,2 (2020): bqz041. doi: https://academic.oup.com/endo/article/161/2/bqz041/5698115This mouse study demonstrates the influence of maternal nutrition during lactation on offspring gut microbiota and its consequences on metabolism and puberty timing. Childhood obesity is a risk factor for the deve...

To read the full abstract: PLoS One. 2019;14(12):e0226262. geraldine.delbes@iaf.inrs.caMale childhood cancer survivors (CCS) show reduced fertility, mostly due to low sperm count. The links between DNA damage caused by cancer and its treatment, pubertal stage at diagnosis and future infertility are still unclear. This Canadian pilot study analysed reproductive parameters and sperm characteristics...

To read the full abstract: JAMA. 2019 Oct 15;322(15):1515–1517. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.12925.The authors merged data from separate national Swedish registers for births and obesity surgery and identified 2921 women who had a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery between 2007 to 2014 (‘cases’) and subsequent pregnancies. Controls were identified as women without bariatric surgery ...

To read the full abstract: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2018 Dec 6;102:128–138.This study investigated whether maternal high fat diet (HFD) exposure during rat pregnancy and lactation can alter the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) in adult male offspring.Maternal diet and metabolic status are important factors which influence the intrauterine and early postna...

To read the full abstract: Horm Res Paediatr. 2018;90:407–413.Temple syndrome (TS) is a rare imprinting disorder caused by the dysregulation of imprinted genes in the chromosomal region 14q32 [1]. Most cases (approximately 70–80%) are caused by maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 14. Paternal deletions and primary imprinting defects involving chromosomal region 14q32 can ...

To read the full abstract: Nat Immunol. 2018; 19(9): 954–962.The immune system protects the host organism against infectious diseases, however, pathogen elimination frequently entails collateral tissue damage and inflammation, which decrease host fitness (1). Neuroendocrine-immune interactions play an important role in these regulatory processes (2, 3). Endogenous glucocorticoids (c...

Pediatr Diabetes. 2018 Apr 25. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12687. [Epub ahead of print]Transition of patients with chronic diseases from pediatric to adult care has become recognized as an important part of health care provision and its multifaceted challenges are increasingly being studied. This transition period is associated with deterioration of metabolic control and general health in young adults wi...

To read the full abstract: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 476(11):2112–2122, 2018The century-long Fels Longitudinal Study of human growth and development aimed to track when growth plate fusion started and completed in children born as far back as 1915. Among 1292 children, each with between 1 to 30 serial left hand-wrist radiographs, children born in the 1990s reached ...

To read the full abstract: Nature 2017;548:52-57The central nervous system contributes to ageing. The hypothalamus seems to be particularly important in this process. Recent studies have demonstrated a link between ageing and a decrease of neurogenesis in the hippocampus and the subventricular zone of the lateral ventricle in the brain. Neural stem/progenitor cells (NSC) reside in those regions in ...

To read the full abstract: Endocr Rev 2018;39:3,333This review is interesting for several reasons. It focuses on a specific type of cells lining the wall of the third ventricle in the median eminence of the hypothalamus. This region acts both as a secretor of neuropeptides and as a sensor of the metabolic status of the periphery. These two functions imply a bidirectional physiological pathway: br...