Disease Score gda Association Type Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cushing's disease (CD) is usually caused by ACTH-secreting pituitary microadenomas, while silent corticotroph adenomas (SCA) are macroadenomas without Cushingoid features. 20616110 2010
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Here, we describe the first case of a patient with CNC and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-dependent Cushing disease due to a pituitary corticotroph adenoma. 28522647 2017
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Role of Brg1 and HDAC2 in GR trans-repression of the pituitary POMC gene and misexpression in Cushing disease. 17043312 2006
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE The pathophysiological mechanism of pituitary ACTH oversecretion in Cushing's disease remains unclear. 1322426 1992
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cushing's syndrome is caused by excessive adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) secretion derived from pituitary corticotroph tumors (Cushing disease) or from non-pituitary tumors (ectopic Cushing's syndrome). 27935805 2016
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE GH secretagogues (GHS) produce exaggerated ACTH and cortisol responses in Cushing's disease (CD) patients, attributable to their direct action on GH-releasing peptide receptor type 1a (GHSR-1a). 18426818 2008
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cushing's disease (CD) results from uncontrolled hypercortisolism induced by ACTH-secreting corticotroph adenomas; accordingly, patients diagnosed with CD usually present several comorbidities and an increased risk of mortality. 26208471 2016
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Taken together, somatic gain-of-function USP8 mutations are common and contribute to ACTH overproduction in Cushing's disease. 25675982 2015
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE In the CD group only, lumbar BMD and serum adrenocorticotropic hormone had a significant positive correlation. 28851260 2018
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE ACTH = adrenocorticotrophic hormone; BA = bilateral adrenalectomy; CBG = cabergoline; CD = Cushing disease; CV = coefficient of variation; DXM = dexamethasone; IQR = interquartile range; RT = radiation therapy; SRS = stereotactic radiosurgery; TSS = transsphenoidal surgery; UFC = urinary free cortisol; ULN = upper limit of normal. 28332874 2017
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cushing's disease (CD) is a rare condition caused by adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-producing adenomas of the pituitary, which lead to hypercortisolism that is associated with high morbidity and mortality. 31717455 2019
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Transition from Cushing's disease to ACTH-independence is not supported by the available data. 8038906 1994
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Patients with Cushing's disease and ectopic ACTH producing tumors showed elevated levels of androgens and their metabolites when compared with healthy controls. 31201926 2019
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Exaggerated response of adrenocorticotropic hormone to growth hormone-releasing peptide-2 test in Cushing's disease. Case report. 19707004 2009
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Following desmopressin administration there was an overlap of the percent F and ACTH responses among patients with CD and EAS, and the area under the ROC curve for both these responses was not significantly different than that occurring by chance. 11932296 2002
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cushing's disease (CD) is a rare disabling condition caused by Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-secreting adenomas of the pituitary. 28850717 2018
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Complete surgical resection of an adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)-secreting pituitary adenoma is the gold standard of treatment of Cushing disease. 28003168 2017
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Our findings provide a plausible cellular basis for the exaggerated ACTH response to ghrelin in Cushing's disease and suggest novel research strategies to develop medical treatments for this disease. 16551736 2006
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cushing disease is a condition in which the pituitary gland releases excessive adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) as a result of an adenoma arising from the ACTH-secreting cells in the anterior pituitary. 22105169 2011
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Three months later, he presented to the endocrine clinic with symptoms of Cushing's disease and was diagnosed with an adrenocorticotropic hormone secreting pituitary microadenoma. 30635306 2019
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Octreotide, a somatostatin receptor type 2 (SSTR2)-preferring somatostatin analogue, has no effect on ACTH secretion in patients with Cushing's disease. 25011056 2014
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Cushing disease (CD) is due to pituitary corticotrope adenomas that produce unrestrained ACTH secretion and have lost the negative feedback exerted by glucocorticoids (GCs). 26695862 2016
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Chronic adrenal stimulation by ACTH in Cushing's disease or GIP in GIP-dependent ACTH-independent macronodular adrenal hyperplasia both lead to the induction of genes implicated in adrenal proliferation and steroidogenesis. 16772347 2006
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE Unrestrained production of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and its peptide fragments by pituitary corticotroph adenomas in Cushing's disease. 1327071 1992
Pituitary-dependent Cushing's disease
0.400 Biomarker disease BEFREE ACTH-secreting pituitary tumor samples were obtained during transphenoidal surgery from patients with Cushing disease and normal pituitary tissues from autopsies. 18840638 2009