MEN

Abbreviation for multiple endocrine neoplasia.

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(males), androphobia.

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MEN

Abbreviation for:
mitotic exit network (see there)

MEN

Multiple endocrine neoplasia, Multiple endocrine adenomatosis A group of AD, often overlapping diseases characterized by hyperplasia or neoplasia of > one endocrine gland, many of the APUD system, see there.

MEN–multiple endocrine neoplasia

MEN type 1–I A complex characterized by pituitary adenoma or hyperplasia, adrenal adenoma or hyperplasia, parathyroid adenoma or hyperplasia, acromegaly, pancreatic islet cell tumors–insulinoma, carcinoid, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, WDHA syndrome, ↑ gastrin secretion, peptic ulcer, Note: Nonhereditary factors may influence the expression of MEN I as the condition may be unequally expressed in identical twins; the defective gene is located on chromosome 11q13 Lab Invest 1995; 72:494

MEN type 2a–I/IIa A complex characterized by medullary carcinoma of the thyroid–bilateral and present in nearly 100% of cases producing calcitonin, histaminase, prostaglandins, ACTH, potentially causing Cushing syndrome, pheochromocytoma and parathyroid adenoma or hyperplasia Diagnosis Conventional diagnostic modalities–eg radiologic imaging, histopathology, and laboratory values–↑ plasma calcitonin, ↑ urinary catecholamines, and catabolites, for MEN-2A identifies relevant tumors, but not carriers Molecular pathology The MEN-2A gene mutation identified by linkage analysis in the RET proto-oncogene, which maps to chromosome 10q11.2, specifically at exon 10 or 11, is highly specific–no false positives and highly sensitive–no false negatives, allowing early diagnosis of MEN-2A. See.RET gene Prognosis Excellent

MEN type 2b–III/IIb Mucosal neuroma syndrome A complex characterized by bilateral medullary carcinoma of the thyroid–producing calcitonin, histaminase, prostaglandins, ACTH and potentially, Cushing syndrome, pheochromocytoma, parathyroid adenoma or hyperplasia, mucosal–gut neurofibromas, associated with thickened lips, submucosal oral nodules, intestinal ganglioneurofibromatosis, infantile intestinal dysfunction and cranial nerve hyperplasia and connective tissue disease–Marfanoid habitus, scoliosis, kyphosis, pectus excavatum Prognosis 20% mortality

MEN

Abbreviation for multiple endocrine neoplasia.

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MEN

Abbreviation for multiple endocrine neoplasia.

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Patient discussion about MEN

Q. do you have information or articles on skin eczema that is related to depression, especially in men?

A. If you are looking for professional articles, then here's one to start with:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18624873?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Q. Does it exist a Birth Control Shot for men?

A. No. Currently there are no available medications for birth control for men. However, there are several other methods, including barrier methods (condom) and more irreversible ones (e.g. vasectomy) which may require a treatment by a surgeon.

You may read more here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001946.htm

Q. Does a women wear men's deodorant can get breast cancer? I love partying. I used to go out with my boyfriend on Saturdays to dance clubs. I am crazy about the fragrance of my boyfriend’s deodorant. One day I asked him to lend his deo to me for just one party. He said that men’s deo can cause breast cancer in ladies. I am afraid of using it. But I could not overcome my feelings. I like to try it out once, only once. Is it true that women that wear men's deodorant can get breast cancer? (I love the fragrance of Old spice!)

A. naaaa! that's just an urban myth. there isn't any difference between women's or men's deodorant. neither of them should cause breast cancer... but they both contain aluminum which is generally not good for you.

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Also have I asked the white men, and they have said yes, there is no snow in that country.

"When Yamikan is in this country where there is no snow," old Ebbits continued, "he is taken to large house where many men make much talk.

Then will the soldier white men come and get you, and even as they took Yamikan will they take you across the salt lake to the white man's land.

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I resist the skepticism of our education and of our educated men. I do not believe that the differences of opinion and character in men are organic.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done?

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious.

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"The ten men who guarded the tribe were set to work making a wall of stones across the narrow part of the valley.

"Because of the safety in the Sea Valley, which was because of the wall and the watchers and the guards, and because there was food in plenty for all without having to fight for it, many families came in from the coast valleys on both sides and from the high back mountains where they had lived more like wild animals than men. And it was not long before the Sea Valley filled up, and in it were countless families.

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And he called this woman Pandora (2), because all they who dwelt on Olympus gave each a gift, a plague to men who eat bread.

And Epimetheus did not think on what Prometheus had said to him, bidding him never take a gift of Olympian Zeus, but to send it back for fear it might prove to be something harmful to men. But he took the gift, and afterwards, when the evil thing was already his, he understood.

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Among the higher men whom Zarathustra wishes to save, is also the scientific specialist--the man who honestly and scrupulously pursues his investigations, as Darwin did, in one department of knowledge.

"Their pity IS it from which I flee away," he says--that is to say: "It is from their want of reverence and lack of shame in presence of my great misery!" The ugliest man despises himself; but Zarathustra said in his Prologue: "I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore." He therefore honours the ugliest man: sees height in his self- contempt, and invites him to join the other higher men in the cave.

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