Is it possible to construct phylogenetic trees using polypeptide hormone sequences?

abstract：:Ecdysis triggering hormone receptors (ETHR) regulate the behavioral sequence necessary for cuticle shedding. Recent reports have documented functions for ETHR signaling in adult Drosophila melanogaster. In this study, we report that ETHR silencing in local interneurons of the antennal lobes and fruitless neurons leads...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Deshpande SA,Meiselman M,Hice RH,Arensburger P,Rivera-Perez C,Kim DH,Croft RL,Noriega FG,Adams ME

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two peptides with sequence similarities to growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH) have been identified by analysis of the chicken genome. One of these peptides, chicken (c) GHRH-LP (like peptide) was previously found to poorly bind to chicken pituitary membranes or to cloned and expressed chicken GHRH receptors and h...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Harvey S,Gineste C,Gaylinn BD

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the role of corticosterone in mediating the response of birds to acute stress is well established, it has recently been proposed that a decrease in prolactin levels following stress may complement corticosterone in redirecting resources away from breeding activities and towards behaviors promoting immediate surv...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Riou S,Chastel O,Lacroix A,Hamer KC

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following feeding of a single meal to Atlantic salmon, the temporal changes in the brain mRNA expression of neuropeptide y (npy), cocaine-amphetamine regulated transcript (cart), peptide yy (pyy), two isoforms of agouti-related protein (agrp), two isoforms of cholecystokinin (cck), and four isoforms of proopiomelanoco...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Valen R,Jordal AE,Murashita K,Rønnestad I

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenomedullin (AM) is a multifunctional evolutionarily highly conserved peptide. Although its genomic and amino acid (aa) sequences are known in several mammalian species and in fish, the structure of the AM gene remains unknown in intermediate phyla, including birds. Here, we report the structure and aa sequence of ...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Zudaire E,Cuesta N,Martínez A,Cuttitta F

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molting enables growth and development across ecdysozoa. The molting process is strictly controlled by hormones - ecdysteroids. Ecdysteroidogenesis occurs in theprothoracic glands and stimulated by prothoracicotropic hormone in insects, while it ensues in the Y-organ and regulated by the molt inhibiting hormone in cru...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Minh Nhut T,Mykles DL,Elizur A,Ventura T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allatostatin-like immunoreactivity was demonstrated in the central nervous system (CNS) neurons of the freshwater pulmonate snails Bulinus globosus (Planorbidae) and Stagnicola elodes (Lymnaeidae). Immunopositive neurons were localized using a monoclonal antibody highly specific to allatostatin I (APSGAQRLYGFGL-amide)...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Rudolph PH,Stay B

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saline extracts of the corpus cardiacum (CC) of Locusta migratoria activate glycogen phosphorylase in locust fat body. The response of phosphorylase to CC extracts and to synthetic adipokinetic hormone (AKH) suggests that the factor responsible for the activating effect of the CC on phosphorylase is AKH, supplemented ...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Van Marrewijk WJ,Van den Broek AT,Beenakkers AM

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dopamine administration on the adrenal gland of a lizard, Podarcis sicula, are described. Dopamine (0.7mg/100g body wt/day for 4 consecutive days) raised plasma ACTH and corticosterone levels (ACTH: from the basal level of 4.40+/-0.05-7.30+/-0.08pg/ml 24h after the fourth dopamine injection; corticoster...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Capaldo A,Laforgia V,Sciarrillo R,De Falco M,Valiante S,Gay F,Virgilio F,Varano L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogeny of gonadotropin 1 (GtH1) and 2 (GtH2) cells and its possible link to gonadal sex differentiation were studied in pejerrey, Odontesthes bonariensis, by immunocytochemistry using anti-chum salmon beta-GtH1 and beta-GtH2 antisera. In adults, GtH1 cells were found in the proximalis pars distalls (PPD) close t...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Miranda LA,Strüssmann CA,Somoza GM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seasonal changes in testicular structure and function in three species of Korean frogs (Rana nigromaculata, R. rugosa, and R. dybowskii) having different breeding seasons and habitats were examined throughout the year. R. nigromaculata live in rice fields and breed in early May. Their gonadosomatic index (GSI) and tes...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Ko SK,Kang HM,Im WB,Kwon HB

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transthyretin (TTR) is responsible for a major part of the binding of thyroid hormone to proteins in the plasma in amphibian tadpoles. To characterize the binding properties of amphibian TTRs, the effects of 17 hydrophobic signaling molecules, including 6 endocrine disruptors, on 3,5,3'-l-[(125)I]triiodothyronine ([(1...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Yamauchi K,Prapunpoj P,Richardson SJ

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgens take part in the regulation of puberty and promote growth and development. They play their biological role by binding to a specific androgen receptor (AR). The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of AR mRNA and protein in the pituitary and adrenal glands, to localize AR protein in luteinizing ho...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Kiezun J,Kaminska B,Jankowski J,Dusza L

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is a cysteine-rich, matrix-associated heparin-binding protein that is important in many cell types as a regulator of cell proliferation, angiogenesis, cell remodelling and other cellular processes. CTGF is necessary for normal follicle growth and luteinisation in mammals. The avi...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Zhu G,Kang L,Yang C,Zhang X,Wang M,Jiang Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH) is an inhibitor of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. GnIH is also called RFamide-related peptide (RFRP) as GnIH peptides have a characteristic C-terminal LPXRFiamide (X = L or Q) sequence. GnIH is thought to be the mediator of stress by negatively regulating the HPG ...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Ubuka T,Parhar IS,Tsutsui K

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vertebrates, the ontogeny of several crucial organismal systems is known to occur early in life. Developmental conditions can ultimately have important consequences on adult fitness by affecting individual phenotype. These developmental effects are thought to be primarily mediated by endocrine systems, and especial...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Dupont SM,Grace JK,Brischoux F,Angelier F

更新日期：2019-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Biologically active recombinant yellowtail kingfish follicle stimulating hormone (rytkFsh) was produced in yeast Pichia pastoris and its biological activity was demonstrated by both in-vitro and in-vivo bioassays. Incubation of ovarian and testicular fragments with the recombinant hormone stimulated E2 and 11-KT secre...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Sanchís-Benlloch PJ,Nocillado J,Ladisa C,Aizen J,Miller A,Shpilman M,Levavi-Sivan B,Ventura T,Elizur A

更新日期：2017-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Secretin (Sct), traditionally a gastrointestinal hormone backed by a century long research, is now beginning to be recognized also as a neuroactive peptide. Substantiation by recent evidence on the functional role of Sct in various regions of the brain, especially on its potential neurosecretion from the posterior pit...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Sekar R,Chow BK

更新日期：2013-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine electromyographic activity (EMG), plasma concentrations of prostaglandin (PG) F and E, and arginine vasotocin (AVT) were simultaneously measured in relation to PGE2-induced premature oviposition and to indomethacin-blocked oviposition in chickens. The administration of indomethacin (5 mg, im) 3 hr before the p...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Saito N,Shimada K,Koike TI

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A triacetyl form of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) was found in carp (Cyprinus carpio) and goldfish (Carassius auratus), by selective detection of mass profile for cell secretory granules using direct tissue matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) analys...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Yasuda A,Tatsu Y,Shigeri Y

更新日期：2012-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Natriuretic peptide type C (NPPC) and its receptor, natriuretic peptide receptor 2 (NPR2), have essential roles in maintaining meiotic arrest of oocytes in several mammalian species. However, it is not known if a similar mechanism exists in non-mammalian vertebrates. Using zebrafish as a model, we show that Nppc is ex...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Pang Y,Thomas P

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing evidence shows that sex steroids not only act within the individual whose glands produce them; they can also act on proximate conspecifics. Previous studies show that exogenous 17β-estradiol (E2) can be absorbed both nasally and percutaneously, arriving in blood, neural, reproductive, and peripheral tissues. W...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Greville LJ,Pollock T,Faure PA,deCatanzaro D

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopamine (DA) has a pivotal role in avian prolactin (PRL) secretion, acting centrally through D(1) DA receptors to stimulate PRL secretion by operating through vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). DA also inhibits PRL secretion by activating D(2) DA receptors at the pituitary level. This study was designed to investig...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Sartsoongnoen N,Kosonsiriluk S,Prakobsaeng N,Songserm T,Rozenboim I,Halawani ME,Chaiseha Y

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous study showed that docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) plays an important role in decreasing lipid accumulation by inducing apoptosis of the adipocytes in grass carp. However, the mechanism involved remains unclear. DHA has been reported as the natural ligand of PPARγ. The present study aimed to assess whether PPAR...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Jin A,Shi XC,Liu Y,Sun J,Ji H

更新日期：2018-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The factors influencing prolactin (PRL) variation in birds and in wildlife in general have rarely been investigated with respect to the physiological impacts of exposure to environmental contaminants. We investigated the associations between circulating baseline PRL levels and concentrations of eight persistent organo...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Verreault J,Verboven N,Gabrielsen GW,Letcher RJ,Chastel O

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatase is a key regulator of circulating testosterone (T) and 17-β-oestradiol (E2), two steroids which are critical to the development, maintenance and function of reproductive tissues. The role of aromatase in sexual differentiation in oviparous (egg-laying) reptiles is well understood, yet has never been explored...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Parsley LM,Wapstra E,Jones SM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional abilities of 9.5-, 10.5-, 11.5-, and 12.5-day-old chick embryos to respond to exogenous thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH) were evaluated by means of changes in plasma total thyroxine (T4). T4 concentrations were determined 3.0, 6.0, 12.0, and 24.0 hr after TRH treatment. The data of the present inves...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Thommes RC,Williams DJ,Woods JE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mammalian isolated adrenal cell system was validated as a bioassay for goldfish ACTH; the log dose-response curve for the goldfish hormone is parallel to that for synthetic mammalian ACTH1-24, and the two ACTHs induce the same maximum rate of corticosterone production. Using this assay, it was observed that (1) ther...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Portanova R,Eastman JT

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The investigation of calcitonin-like immunoreactivity performed in whole extracts of the terrestrial crustacean Orchestia cavimana using radioimmunoassay revealed large amounts of these peptides varying in concentration according to the stages of the molt cycle. Their level is maximum at the time of the exuviation. Th...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Graf F,Fouchereau-Peron M,Van-Wormhoudt A,Meyran JC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prepared monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against a recombinant tethered follicle-stimulating hormone (rec-FSH) from Japanese eel Anguilla japonica that was produced in Escherichia coli. Positive hybridomas (clones eFA-C5, eFA-C10, eFA-C11, eFA-C12, eFA-C13, and eFB-C14) were selected by using the eel FSH antigen in EL...

journal_title：General and comparative endocrinology

authors： Kim DJ,Park CW,Kim DW,Park HK,Byambaragchaa M,Lee NS,Hong SM,Seo MY,Kang MH,Min KS

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00