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Endocrine Research

Researchers from University of London, Imperial College report recent findings in endocrine research

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, May 29th, 2008

"Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) codes for a peptide widely distributed in nervous and endocrine tissues. CART immunoreactivity (CART-LI) has been detected in human insulinomas," investigators in London, the United Kingdom report.

"The objective of the study was to investigate the measurement of plasma CART-LI as a tumor marker of neuroendocrine malignancy. Plasma CART-LI levels were measured in 401 patients with a range of diagnoses: neuroendocrine malignancy (n = 131), after removal of neuroendocrine malignancy (n = 27), without any form of tumor or renal impairment (n = 192), with renal impairment (n = 17) and with nonneuroendocrine tumors (n =...

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