Common infantile hemangioma appears postnatally, grows rapidly, and regresses slowly. Two types of congenital vascular tumors present fully grown at birth and behave differently from infantile ...

Background. Hypoglycemic episodes are infrequent in individuals without a history of diabetes mellitus or bariatric surgery. When hypoglycemia does occur in such individuals, an uncommon but important ...

Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) are peptide hormones that are primarily involved in stimulating the growth of many types of cells. They participate in the growth and function of almost every organ ...

Time to Shift the Focus of the War: It Is Not All About the Enemy As we move forward in this field, an openness to potential contributions of all of these factors will be critical. Choosing ...

The experimental protocol was designed to test the hypothesis that overexpression of IGFBP-2 would influence the development of obesity. In the first series of experiments, the influence of IGFBP-2 ...

Since its discovery over 50 years ago, the biological aspects of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) have been determined to be extensive. Ranging from cell proliferation, cell differentiation and ...