Natural variations in maternal care are associated with estrogen receptor alpha expression and estrogen sensitivity in the medial preoptic area.

abstract：:We present a map describing the antigenic determinants (epitopes) of the human CG (hCG) molecule. A panel of monoclonal antibodies to hCG, previously characterized by us was incorporated into two-site binding assays to probe hCG by a 21 X 11 matrix of 231 pairs of MCA. Nine different reaction patterns of reciprocal ho...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schwarz S,Berger P,Wick G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described a novel alternatively spliced mRNA transcript of the betacellulin (BTC) gene. This splice isoform, termed BTC-delta4, lacks the C-loop of the epidermal growth factor motif and the transmembrane domain as a result of exon 4 'skipping'. In this study, we expressed BTC-delta4 recombinantly to expl...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ogata T,Dunbar AJ,Yamamoto Y,Tanaka Y,Seno M,Kojima I

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblast growth factor 9 (FGF9) signal has a role in organogenesis of the mammalian testis by controlling migration of mesonephric cells to the XY gonad, but neither it nor the FGF receptors is expressed sex-specifically. Of the Sprouty genes encoding antagonists of receptor tyrosine kinases including FGFr, mSprouty...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chi L,Itäranta P,Zhang S,Vainio S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF-I mediates growth-promoting actions of GH. In the present study we investigated whether the somatostatin analog octreotide blunts the stimulatory effects of GH and/or IGF-I on bone growth in hypophysectomized rats infused for 6 d with vehicle, GH, or IGF-I. We found that octreotide significantly suppressed the GH-...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zapf J,Gosteli-Peter M,Weckbecker G,Hunziker EB,Reinecke M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the estrogen-dependent expression of epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor (TGF) alpha, and EGF receptor gene transcripts in human fallopian tubes in vivo and in vitro. Competitive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed on the fallopian tube RNA samples from the postmenopausal wom...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Adachi K,Kurachi H,Homma H,Adachi H,Imai T,Sakata M,Higashiguchi O,Yamaguchi M,Morishige K,Sakoyama Y

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SH2B1 is an SH2 domain-containing adaptor protein that plays a key role in the regulation of energy and glucose metabolism in both rodents and humans. Genetic deletion of SH2B1 in mice results in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the SH2B1 loci and chromosomal deletions of the SH2B1 loci ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Morris DL,Cho KW,Rui L

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity labeling with underivatized T3 was used to identify T3-binding proteins in the membrane of rat erythrocytes. UV irradiation of ghosts and peripheral protein-depleted membranes in the presence of [125I]T3 resulted in the covalent attachment of 125I to membrane proteins (analyzed by polyacrylamide gel elec...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Samson M,Osty J,Blondeau JP

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of GH during the ovine estrous cycle is unknown. In this study, pituitary GH mRNA and peripheral serum GH levels were measured in ewes representing the major phases of the estrous cycle. There was a significant rise (P less than 0.05) in both GH mRNA and serum GH concentrations during the follicular phase of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Landefeld TD,Suttie JM

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of CRH-related peptides are suggested to play important roles in the control of myometrial contractility during pregnancy and labor. In this study we investigated the expression of urocortin II (UCN II) in human myometrium and its ability to phosphorylate intracellular components that can be involved in mod...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Karteris E,Hillhouse EW,Grammatopoulos D

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneously hypertensive (SH) rats, extensively used as experimental models of essential human hypertension, display important alterations in the neuroendocrine reproductive axis, which manifest as markedly delayed puberty onset in females but whose basis remains largely unknown. We analyze herein in female SH rats:...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Pinilla L,Castellano JM,Romero M,Tena-Sempere M,Gaytán F,Aguilar E

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid hormones are involved in functional differentiation of GH-producing somatotrophs. Glucocorticoid treatment prematurely induces GH expression in mammals and birds in a process requiring protein synthesis and Rat sarcoma (Ras) signaling. The objective of this study was to investigate mechanisms through wh...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ellestad LE,Puckett SA,Porter TE

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently identified a 32 K mol wt insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding protein (BP) which is markedly increased in the serum of streptozotocin-diabetic rats and recognized by antiserum against the human amniotic fluid IGFBP (hIGFBP-1). In the present study we sought to confirm that this protein represents the r...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Unterman TG,Oehler DT,Gotway MB,Morris PW

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTH-related protein (PTHrP) and its receptor are expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells and are believed to participate in the local regulation of vascular tone. To explore the function of locally produced PTHrP in vascular smooth muscle in vivo, we developed transgenic mice that overexpress PTHrP in smooth muscle ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Maeda S,Sutliff RL,Qian J,Lorenz JN,Wang J,Tang H,Nakayama T,Weber C,Witte D,Strauch AR,Paul RJ,Fagin JA,Clemens TL

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid hormones are metabolized as glucuronide conjugates. Using labeled [(14)C]uridine diphosphate glucuronic acid and microsomal preparations from human embryonic kidney 293 cells stably expressing the different human and monkey uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase (UGT)2B enzyme...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Girard C,Barbier O,Veilleux G,El-Alfy M,Bélanger A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sympathetic nervous system is a physiological regulator of bone homeostasis. Autonomic nerves are indeed present in bone, bone cells express the β2-adrenergic receptors (β2AR), and pharmacological or genetic disruption of sympathetic outflow to bone induces bone gain in rodents. These recent findings implied that ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ma Y,Nyman JS,Tao H,Moss HH,Yang X,Elefteriou F

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hormonal control of the adipose conversion of 3T3 L1 cells was studied in a chemically defined medium and compared to that under serum-containing conditions. Addition of insulin to a chemically defined medium (Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium-Ham's F-12, 1:1) resulted in a dose-dependent increase in glycero-3-ph...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hauner H

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTH-related protein (PTHrP), the major mediator of hypercalcemia of malignancy, reduces tubular phosphate (Pi) reabsorption through its PTH-like renotropic actions. Another peptide detected in tumoral cells, transforming growth factor-beta (TGF beta), has been shown to considerably suppress the sodium-dependent Pi tra...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Law F,Rizzoli R,Bonjour JP

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) concentration was measured in prostatic tissue obtained from castrate or intact beagles treated with androgens and/or estradiol-17 beta. Also DHT concentration was measured in prostatic tissue of beagles ranging from 0.7-9.2 yr; some with and others without spontaneously occurring benign pros...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ewing LL,Berry SJ,Higginbottom EG

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To address the neural mediation of the eating-inhibitory effect of circulating glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), we investigated the effects of 1) intra-fourth ventricular infusion of the GLP-1 receptor antagonist exendin-9 or 2) area postrema lesion on the eating-inhibitory effect of intrameal hepatic portal vein (HPV...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Punjabi M,Arnold M,Rüttimann E,Graber M,Geary N,Pacheco-López G,Langhans W

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco smoking favorably influences the course of Hashimoto thyroiditis, possibly through the antiinflammatory proprieties of nicotine. In this study we tested anatabine, another tobacco alkaloid, in a model of experimental autoimmune thyroiditis. Experimental autoimmune thyroiditis was induced by different doses of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Caturegli P,De Remigis A,Ferlito M,Landek-Salgado MA,Iwama S,Tzou SC,Ladenson PW

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study we found that PTH stimulated bone resorption and release of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and IGF-II from cultured neonatal mouse calvaria. Since IGF-I and IGF-II stimulate osteoblast proliferation and collagen synthesis, these results suggested that increased release of IGFs during resorpti...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Linkhart TA,Keffer MJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proteinaceous secretion from phagocytizing polymorphonuclear leukocytes, termed "leukocytic endogenous mediator" (LEM), has been shown to have marked effects on hepatic amino acid transport and RNA and protein synthesis. A single injection of LEM results in a marked accumulation of labeled nonmetabolizable model ami...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wannemacher RW Jr,Pekarek RS,Thompson WL,Curnow RT,Beall FA,Zenser TV,DeRubertis FR,Beisel WR

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which the proto-oncogene, c-fos, is up-regulated in response to PGE2 in the mouse osteoblastic (MC3T3-E1) cell line was investigated using RT-PCR. c-fos messenger RNA up-regulation by dmPGE2 is rapid, starting 10 min post stimulation, and transient. The specific protein kinase A (PKA) inhibitor, H89, ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fitzgerald J,Dietz TJ,Hughes-Fulford M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MCF-7 cells migrate through vitronectin-coated filters in response to insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I); migration is inhibited by the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitor BB-94, but not by the serine proteinase inhibitor aprotinin. MMP-9 was identified in the conditioned medium of MCF-7 cells; in addition, flu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mira E,Mañes S,Lacalle RA,Márquez G,Martínez-A C

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of androgens by theca-interstitial cells is stimulated by LH and the insulin/insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) system. An essential element of the steroidogenesis is the uptake of plasma cholesterol and transformation to steroid hormones. In the rat, the uptake of cholesterol by the theca-interstitial...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li X,Peegel H,Menon KM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Removal of the 18-hydroxy group of the hemiacetal form of aldosterone transforms its activity from that of pure agonist to predominant antagonist. The 18-deoxy derivative possesses one third of the binding affinity of aldosterone for the cytoplasmic mineralocorticoid receptor of rat kidney and exhibits an approximate ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ulick S,Marver D,Adam WR,Funder JW

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies implicated the involvement of protein kinase-A in the inhibitory effects of isoproterenol and relaxin on oxytocin-stimulated phosphoinositide turnover in rat myometrium. To understand the possible mechanisms involved, the properties and regulation of phospholipase-C (PLC) in purified myometrial pl...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wen Y,Anwer K,Singh SP,Sanborn BM

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons that produce kisspeptin play a critical role in reproduction. However, understanding the molecular physiology of kisspeptin neurons has been limited by the lack of an in vivo marker for those cells. Here, we report the development of a Kiss1-CreGFP knockin mouse, wherein the endogenous Kiss1 promoter directs t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gottsch ML,Popa SM,Lawhorn JK,Qiu J,Tonsfeldt KJ,Bosch MA,Kelly MJ,Rønnekleiv OK,Sanz E,McKnight GS,Clifton DK,Palmiter RD,Steiner RA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triglycerides are stored in specialized organelles called lipid droplets. Numerous proteins have been shown to be physically associated with lipid droplets and govern their function. Previously, the protein hypoxia-inducible lipid droplet-associated (HILPDA) was localized to lipid droplets and was suggested to inhibit...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dijk W,Mattijssen F,de la Rosa Rodriguez M,Loza Valdes A,Loft A,Mandrup S,Kalkhoven E,Qi L,Borst JW,Kersten S

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified rat Leydig cell cytosol was found to contain a protein kinase which was dependent on the presence of both calcium and phospholipids (phosphatidylserine and diolein), i.e. calcium/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase. The peak of Ca/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase was separated from type I and type II c...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lin T

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00