Wednesday, 21st August ESA-SRB-AOTA 2019

• Molecular imaging of endocrine tumours  - David Pattison
• Neuroendocrine Tumours: the role of the endocrinologist  - Roderick Clifton-Bligh
• Neuroendocrine tumours - systemic treatments past and present  - David Chan
• Linking Imaging Phenotype with Genotype in Neuroendocrine Neoplasia  - Rod Hicks

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• Endometriosis: Recognising the heterogeneity of disease experience and phenotype  - Jane Girling

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• Efficacy and safety of long-term universal salt iodization on thyroid disorders: an epidemiological evidence from 31 provinces of mainland China - Weiping Teng
• Unmet clinical needs in thyroid cancer - Won Bae Kim
• Autophagy in the thyroid  - Yuji Nagayama

• Seminal fluid elicits epigenetic modulation in thymus-derived regulatory T cells after mating in mice - Sarah A Robertson
• Activin C inhibits ovarian and prostate cancer cell growth and expression is decreased in higher grade tumours - Karen L Reader
• A unique maternal immune response to insemination: Cell-in-cell structures formed in the uterine epithelium following fertilisation - Chad L Moore
• Elemental metabolomics to identify risk factors and pregnancy outcomes at 18 weeks gestation - Daniel R McKeating

• Prematuration culture with c-type natriuretic peptide improves cumulus function and oocyte quality during minimal stimulation IVM in mice - Dulama Richani
• Hyperspectral imaging of the early embryo: can it detect aneuploidies? - Cheow Yuen (Tiffany) Tan
• Reversing poor gamete quality and protecting embryogenesis in older fathers - Macarena Gonzalez
• Supplementation of culture media with nicotinamide mononucleotide improves embryo development from aged but not young female mice - Michael J Bertoldo

• Association between Thyroid cancer & Hashimoto's thyroiditis   - Min Ji Jeon
• Prolonged Antithyroid drug therapy in Graves Disease  - Jayakumar R V
• Subclinical thyroid disease: a regional perspective  - John Walsh

• Management of Cushing’s Syndrome in pregnancy  - David Torpy
• Adrenal Disorders in Pregnancy - Jui Ho
• Human placental growth hormone variant in pregnancy and placental function  - Jo Perry
• Fetal steroid exposure - Sailesh Kumar

• BMP15 and GDF9 are aberrant in women with PCOS - Angelique H Riepsamen
• Inhibin inactivation disrupts ovarian function in mice - Monica P Goney
• Chlamydia infects the ovary, elicits an immune response and depletes the ovarian reserve in mice - Urooza C Sarma
• Interferon-Tau Exerts Direct Prosurvival and Antiapoptotic Actions in Luteinized Bovine Granulosa Cells - Raghavendra Basavaraja

• Sperm proteins outside the blood-testis barrier - Liza O'Donnell
• Cep76 is a centriole-related gene with an essential role in sperm development - Brendan J Houston
• TBC1D21 is vital to maintain the integrity of mitochondria sheath and flagellum in murine sperm - Ying-Hung Lin
• Germ cells improve blood-testis barrier function - Peter Stanton

• Pre-receptor regulation of therapeutic glucocorticoid action  - Mark Cooper
• Sex, drugs and placental glucocorticoid receptors - Karen Mortiz
• The role of growth hormone signalling in insulin sensitivity, obesity, and longevity in mice  - Andrew Brooks
• Androgen Receptor: A Soloist in a Breast Cancer Symphony  - Iza Denis

• Antiphospholipid antibodies induce endoplasmic reticulum stress in the syncytiotrophoblast and cause the extrusion of dangerous extracellular vesicles - Larry Chamley
• The functional role of Dynamin in the Human Placenta and its putative dysregulation in Preeclampsia - Jacinta H Martin
• Proteomic and metabolic analysis of placental mitochondria following trophoblast differentiation. - Joshua J Fisher
• Reduction in regulatory T cell number in early pregnancy impairs decidual artery remodeling and leads to fetal growth restriction - Alison S Care

• Histone variant H2A.B3 is important for male fertility. - Tanya Soboleva
• Proteomic markers in seminal plasma as a non-invasive alternative for the differential diagnosis of azoospermia - Raouda Sgaier
• Sperm function in metabolically-healthy obese mice - Angela Crean
• Alternative splicing: A major key to poor sperm morphology - Mark A Baker

• A case of unilateral Graves` disease in the right lobe of thyroid gland - Dong-Hyeok Cho
• Antithyroid drugs resistant patient with Graves’ disease : A case report - Maya Kusumawati
• Outcomes of medical therapy for Graves’ Disease in Far North Queensland. Identifying factors predictive of treatment failure. - Yu-Chin Lo
• Elephantiasic Extrathyroidal Graves' disease. - Divya Namboodiri
• Blocking and stimulating antibodies in autoimmune thyroid disease - Ramessh Ranjan
• Correlation between alteration of freeT4 and IL-12 level in Graves' disease patients receiving methimazole therapy - Tania Tedjo

• Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy by a Vestibular Approach with Endoscopic Retractor : Experience with The First 132 Patients - Hojin Chang
• Bone mineral density and bone turnover markers after long-term suppressive levothyroxine therapy of differentiated thyroid carcinoma in premenopausal women - Dong-Hyeok Cho
• Case Report: Malignant struma ovarii with a robust response to radioactive iodine - Matti Gild
• Ectopic Thyroid Tissue mimicking Metastatic Thyroid Cancer   - Tjin Shing Jap
• Changes of resting metabolic rate, body composition or muscle strength after thyroidectomy in female patients with differentiated thyroid cancer - Kyong Yeun Jung
• Tumor growth kinetic analyses might explain the excellent prognosis in childhood/adolescent papillary thyroid carcinoma - Toshihiko Kasahara
• Robot-assisted Thyroid Lobectomy with SP System via Transaxillary Approach: Experience with the First 10 Papillary Thyroid Cancer Patients - Jin Kyong Kim
• Clinical and Pathologic Features for Predicting malignancy in Thyroid Follicular Neoplasms - Kwangsoon Kim
• Should Total Thyroidectomy be Recommended for Patients with Familial Non-medullary Thyroid Cancer? - Yon Seon Kim
• Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting With Cervical Neck Lymph Node Metastasis - Jong Eun Lee
• High BRAF^V600EMutation Frequency in Chinese Patient with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Increases Diagnostic Efficacy in Cytologically Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules - Chao Liu
• 6 cases of distant metastasis due to papillary microcarcinoma  - Yasushi Noguchi
• The diagnostic benefit of repeated FNA according to US patterns in thyroid nodules initially diagnosed as atypia/follicular lesion of undetermined significance - Wooyul Paik
• Impact of size threshold on diagnostic performance of US fine-needle aspiration for thyroid malignancy: comparison of three international guidelines - Wooyul Paik
• The appropriateness of ultrasound imaging for thyroid pathology, the standard of radiology reporting on thyroid nodules and the detection rates of thyroid malignancy: A tertiary centre retrospective audit. - Denis Rubtsov
• Association between TSH level after total thyroidectomy and hypercholesterolemia in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer - Dong Yeob Shin
• Role of FDG PETCT WB imaging in followup evaluation of Medullary thyroid carcinoma patients with high serum Calcitonin levels - Padma Subramanyam
• A rare case of de-differentiation from papillary thyroid carcinoma to squamous cell carcinoma in an elderly patient – Predicting the unpredictable of thyroid cancer - Yotsapon Dr. Thewjitcharoen
• Influence of tumor size and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG PS) at baseline on patient outcomes in lenvatinib-treated radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (RR-DTC) - Lori J. Wirth
• Effectiveness of retinoic acid redifferentiation therapy for radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer based on 4 response-to-therapy categories - Joon-Kee Yoon
• Comparison of robot-assisted modified radical neck dissection using a bilateral axillary breast approach with a conventional open procedure after propensity score matching - Se Hyun Paek

• Periprosthetic joint infection caused by Gram-positive versus Gram-negative bacteria, exerts adverse osteoclast-mediated effects on the bone: the possible role of thyroid stimulating hormone - Mei-Feng Chen
• Involvement of somatic copy-number gains with the tumorigenesis of Thyrotropin-secreting pituitary adenomas. - Kazuhiko Horiguchi
• Protective Effect of Alpha-lipoic acid on Salivary Dysfunction Following Radioiodine Therapy in a Mouse Model - Junghwa Jung
• Prevalence of thyroid disease in patients surgically treated for pituitary disease - Daham Kim
• A significant association of muscle strength with thyroid function in overweight and obese population; a study of the sixth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES 2014-2015) - Min-Hee Kim
• Thyroid hormone negatively regulates the pituitary NR4A1 without direct binding of thyroid hormone receptors on the gene. - Takashi Okamura
• Getting to the heart of hyperthyroidism - Vicka Poudyal
• A rare case of necrotizing granuloma of thyroid due to suspected non-tuberculous mycobacterium.     - Swetha Rangaswamaiah
• Myxedema coma in a patient with subclinical hypothyroidism - Shui-Boon Soh
• Ethanol ablation of benign non-functioning thyroid nodules: more than 5-years follow-up results for 100 patients - Jin Yong Sung

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• Iodine nutrition in pregnant women in China  - Zhongyan Shan
• Iodine deficiency during pregnancy: the implications and challenges for Australian women and their offspring  - Kristen Hynes
• Iodine Supplementation in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding  - Fereidoun Azizi

• Key drivers of embryo-endometrial crosstalk to establish pregnancy  - Evdokia Dimitriadis
• Endometrial receptivity failure: origins and prediction  - Tracey Edgell
• The legacy of nutrient availability: lessons from pluripotent stem cells  - Alexandra Harvey
• Use of machine learning tools to define immune cell changes in recurrent miscarriage women - Lachlan Moldenhauer

• Have we been thinking about subfertility in men who are obese wrong all along?  - Nicole McPherson
• An Unexpected Role for Endogenous Estrogen Signaling in Penis Development - Andrew Pask
• Sex in a changing world: behavioural, ecological and evolutionary impacts of anthropogenic change  - Bob Wong
• The effects of heat stress on sheep reproduction - Review  - Gordon Refshauge

• Experience of the Glucagon Stimulation Test for the Assessment of Growth Hormone Deficiency for Subsidised Growth Hormone Treatment in Australia - Reetu Gogna
• Diagnostic value of copeptin in central diabetes insipidus - Emma Boehm
• Effect of variability in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity on vascular function, insulin sensitivity and lipids - Anjana Radhakutty
• Delayed hyponatraemia following transsphenoidal pituitary surgery: predictive factors and the impact of routine day 7 post-operative sodium measurement on readmission rate - Michelle Isaacs
• Diagnosis Of Primary Aldosteronism By Seated Saline Suppression Test - Analysis Using Immunoassay - Moe Thuzar
• Impact of Victoria’s first dedicated Endocrine Hypertension Service on the pattern of primary aldosteronism diagnoses - Yin Yu Lim
• Variation in the aldosterone/renin ratio indicates the need for age- and sex-specific reference ranges when screening for primary aldosteronism - Jun Yang
• Predictors of mortality in patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 - Jasmine J Zhu
• The rising incidence of endocrine toxicity in the era of combination immunotherapy - Anna Galligan
• Utility of Androstenedione and 17-hydroxyprogesterone for monitoring androgen excess in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency – a local experience - Timothy Lin

• Genomic analysis of premature ovarian insufficiency: new genes, pleiotropic genes and clinical implication of diagnosis - Elena J Tucker
• A new model of urethral closure in the developing penis; the role of discrete hedgehog signalling - Gerard A Tarulli
• The effect of preconception metabolic optimisation on end organ inflammation in late gestation mice. - Natassia Rodrigo
• Gonocyte transformation into spermatogonial stem cells (SSC): The key to understand infertility and malignancy of cryptorchidism - Ruili Li
• Interferon-Tau Exerts Direct Prosurvival and Antiapoptotic Actions in Luteinized Bovine Granulosa Cells - Raghavendra Basavaraja
• Maternal adipose tissue derived exosomes modulates glucose and fatty acid uptake in human primary trophoblast cells - Nanthini Jayabalan
• The impact of surgical menopause on body Composition, bone and metabolic parameters: a cross sectional analysis - Kathy Fu
• Psychiatric comorbidities in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. - Chau Thien Tay
• BMI trajectories in women with and without polycystic ovary syndrome - Chau Thien Tay
• The relationship between maternal osteocalcin measurements and glucose metabolism in pregnancy - Angela McPhee