The interrelationship between prolactin (PRL) and the immune system have been elucitaded
in the last decade, opening new important horizons in the field of the immunoendocrinology…

Lymphocytic hypophysitis (LYH) is an uncommon autoimmune disease in which the pituitary
gland is infiltrated by lymphocytes, plasma cells and macrophages and its function is …

To examine the role of sex steroid hormones in the development of autoimmune diseases,
we studied five patients with Klinefelter’s syndrome associated with autoimmune disease, …

Objective Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a devastating public health problem that may result
in hypopituitarism. However, the mechanisms responsible for hypothalamic–pituitary …

Central diabetes insipidus (CDI) is a rare hypothalamus-pituitary disease due to the deficiency
of arginine vasopressin (AVP) synthesis from the hypothalamus and/or secretion from the …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been recently recognized as a common cause of pituitary
dysfunction. However, there are not sufficient numbers of prospective studies to understand …

Purpose This publication reviews the accepted knowledges and the findings still discussed
on several features of autoimmune hypophysitis, including the most recently described forms, …

To test the hypothesis that levels of adrenal autoantibodies correlate with the degree of
adrenal dysfunction, we followed up adrenal cortex autoantibody (ACA) titers and 21-…

… Annamaria De Bellis … (F Tanriverdi and A De Bellis contributed equally to this work) … (F
Tanriverdi and A De Bellis contributed equally to this work) …

Objective: To determine the prevalence of steroid-cell autoantibodies, 3β-hydroxysteroid
dehydrogenase (3β-HSD) antibodies, 17α-hydroxylase (17α-OH) antibodies, and P450 side-…