Articles by author - Wilma Maschek

Serum leptin is correlated to high turnover in osteoporosis.

Hipmair G, Böhler N, Maschek W, Soriguer F, Rojo-Martínez G, Schimetta W, Pichler R.

Journal Article 2010; 31(1): 155-160 PubMed PMID: 20150868  Keywords:  Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Biomarkers:analysis, Body Mass Index, Bone Density, Bone Remodeling:physiology, Bone and Bones:metabolism, Calcium:analysis, Female, Humans, Leptin:blood, Male, Middle Aged, Osteoporosis:blood,.    Citation

OBJECTIVE: Clinical data have suggested that obesity protects against osteoporosis. Leptin, mainly secreted by white adipose tissue, might.....

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Is there a gender difference of somatostatin-receptor density in the human brain?

Pichler R, Maschek W, Crespillo C, Esteva I, Soriguer F.

Clinical Trial 2002; 23(5-6): 440-441 PubMed PMID: 12500167  Keywords:  Adult, Brain:diagnostic imaging, Female, Graves Disease:metabolism, Humans, Ligands, Male, Middle Aged, Receptors, Somatostatin:biosynthesis, Sample Size, Sex Factors, Somatostatin:analogs & derivatives, Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon,.    Citation

: Animal experiments and observations in human brains have convincingly shown that sexual differentiation not only concerns the genitalia .....

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