Evidence that estrogens modulate activity and increase the number of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D receptors in osteoblast-like cells (ROS 17/2.8).

abstract：:Free radical production and lipid peroxidation are potentially important mediators in testicular physiology and toxicology. The cytochrome P450 enzymes of the steroidogenic pathway are known to produce free radicals. The present study was conducted to elucidate in vivo the gonadotropin regulation of free radical-media...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Peltola V,Huhtaniemi I,Metsa-Ketela T,Ahotupa M

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF-I has been shown to play a role in the progression of atherosclerosis in experimental animal models. IGF-binding protein-4 (IGFBP-4) binds to IGF-I and prevents its association with receptors. Overexpression of a protease-resistant form of IGFBP-4 has been shown to inhibit the ability of IGF-I to stimulate normal ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nichols TC,Busby WH Jr,Merricks E,Sipos J,Rowland M,Sitko K,Clemmons DR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type I iodothyronine 5' deiodinase (5'DI) contains selenocysteine, encoded by a UGA codon, and this amino acid is essential for maximum catalytic efficiency in this enzyme. We recently showed that translation of UGA as selenocysteine in this protein requires a specific sequence of about 250 nucleotides in the 3' untra...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Berry MJ,Maia AL,Kieffer JD,Harney JW,Larsen PR

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian ovaries contain sympathetic neurons expressing the low affinity neurotropin receptor (p75NTR). To date neither the role these neurons might play in ovarian physiology nor their embryological origin is known. Immunohistochemistry was used to detect postnatal changes in distribution and number of both p75NTR-p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dees WL,Hiney JK,McArthur NH,Johnson GA,Dissen GA,Ojeda SR

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Berberine, a hypoglycemic agent, has recently been shown to activate AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) contributing to its beneficial metabolic effects in peripheral tissues. However, whether berberine exerts a regulatory effect on beta-cells via AMPK or other signaling pathways and counteracts glucolipotoxicity rem...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhou L,Wang X,Shao L,Yang Y,Shang W,Yuan G,Jiang B,Li F,Tang J,Jing H,Chen M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate GH's role in diabetic end organ damage, experimental diabetes was induced with streptozotocin (STZ) in bovine GH (bGH) or bGH antagonist transgenic mice and in their nontransgenic (NTG) litter mates. Body growth, blood glucose, serum insulin-like growth factor-I levels, liver GH receptor (GHR) binding, ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chen NY,Chen WY,Bellush L,Yang CW,Striker LJ,Striker GE,Kopchick JJ

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women with type 1 diabetes are subfertile. Diabetes negatively affects pregnancy by causing early miscarriage and poor prenatal outcomes. In this study we examine consequences of maternal type 1 diabetes on early embryo development, metabolic gene expression, and the pattern of insulin receptor (IR) and IGF-I receptor...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ramin N,Thieme R,Fischer S,Schindler M,Schmidt T,Fischer B,Navarrete Santos A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin (ET) receptor dysregulation has been described in a number of pathophysiological processes, including cardiovascular disorders, renal failure, and cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of the ET-A receptor (ET(A)R) in murine models of thyroid carcinoma using optical imaging methods. A...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Büther K,Compeer MG,De Mey JG,Schober O,Schäfers M,Bremer C,Riemann B,Höltke C

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antisera were raised against synthetic replicates of the carboxyl-terminal (C-terminal) fragment of the precursor to human GH-releasing factor (GRF) (pre-proGRF) whose structure was predicted from the complementary DNA cloned from a pancreatic tumor. These antisera were used along with antisera to human GRF itself to ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bloch B,Baird A,Ling N,Guillemin R

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis is activated by the sympathetic nervous system. BAT responses to norepinephrine are blunted in hypothyroidism and are rapidly restored by thyroid hormone. We examined in rats the effects of thyroid hormone on BAT beta 1- and beta 2-adrenergic receptors (AR) expression and capac...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rubio A,Raasmaja A,Maia AL,Kim KR,Silva JE

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In different types of mammalian cells, insulin has been shown to promote the release of an inositol phosphate glycan (InsP-glycan) through the hydrolysis of a glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (glycosyl-PtdIns). This InsP-glycan, which has been demonstrated to be taken up by intact cells, may mediate some of the biologica...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sánchez-Gutiérrez JC,Sánchez-Arias JA,Valle JC,Guadaño A,Samper B,Mato JM,Felíu JE

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T4 dynamically regulates the levels of type II iodothyronine 5'-deiodinase in the brain. Using an astrocyte cell culture model, we have shown that thyroxine increases inactivation of this enzyme through a mechanism using the actin cytoskeleton. In the absence of T4, the filamentous actin (F-actin) stress fibers are ab...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Farwell AP,Leonard JL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin-II (Ang-II), K+, and ACTH are important stimulators of aldosterone secretion that require Ca2+ influx to be active. However, Ang-II and K+ are linked to the Ca2+ messenger system, while ACTH is coupled to the cAMP pathway. Peripheral-type binding sites for benzodiazepines are particularly abundant in stero...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Python CP,Rossier MF,Vallotton MB,Capponi AM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons in the rodent anteroventral periventricular nucleus (AVPV) play a key role in integrating circadian and gonadal steroid hormone information in the control of fertility. In particular, estradiol-sensitive kisspeptin neurons located in the AVPV, and adjacent structures [together termed the rostral periventricula...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ducret E,Gaidamaka G,Herbison AE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monocarboxylate transporter Mct10 (Slc16a10; T-type amino acid transporter) facilitates the cellular transport of thyroid hormone (TH) and shows an overlapping expression with the well-established TH transporter Mct8. Because Mct8 deficiency is associated with distinct tissue-specific alterations in TH transport a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Müller J,Mayerl S,Visser TJ,Darras VM,Boelen A,Frappart L,Mariotta L,Verrey F,Heuer H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments were devoted to analyzing the hypothesis that somatostatin (SS) could modulate glomerular filtration rate by interacting with mesangial cells. Studies were performed in cultured human mesangial cells, passages 3-5. Radioligand experiments demonstrated the presence in the cells of two kinds of r...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Díez-Marqués ML,García-Escribano C,Medina J,Boyano-Adanez MC,Arilla E,Torrecilla G,Rodríguez-Puyol D,Rodríguez-Puyol M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system which uses perifused pieces from the antrum of rat stomach has been used to study the effect of dihydrosomatostatin on gastrin release. The gastrin concentration in fractions of the perfusate was measured by radioimmunoassay. Dihydrosomatostatin (2 x 10-7M) had no effect on basal gastrin levels but ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hayes JR,Johnson DG,Koerker D,Williams RH

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide-38 (PACAP38) is a neuropeptide related to vasoactive intestinal peptide-secretin-glucagon which stimulates adenylate cyclase in cultured rat pituitary cells and stimulates LH and FSH release in vitro and in vivo. Because the cAMP-protein kinase-A pathway regulates the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tsujii T,Ishizaka K,Winters SJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary culture system has been established for rainbow trout corpuscles of Stannius (CS). A RIA has also been developed to monitor and characterize the teleocalcin secreted by these cultures. The primary cultured CS cells actively synthesized and secreted teleocalcin for up to 39 days when maintained in amphibian a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gellersen B,Wagner GF,Copp DH,Friesen HG

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttranslational modifications of prolactin (PRL), including phosphorylation, vary with physiologic state and alter biologic activity. In light of the growing evidence for a role for PRL in proliferation in mammary cancer, we examined the ability of a mimic of phosphorylated human PRL, S179D-PRL, to initiate signals ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schroeder MD,Brockman JL,Walker AM,Schuler LA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BB/Wor rat develops spontaneous autoimmune diabetes mellitus and also frequently develops lymphocytic thyroiditis. To clarify the role of T cell lymphopenia and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in the development of these autoimmune disorders, we studied back-cross animals between the inbred thyroiditis ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Awata T,Guberski DL,Like AA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF-I and IGF-II play important roles in growth and development via interactions with cell-surface receptors; however, in nature, IGFs are sequestered by at least six soluble, high-affinity IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs), namely IGFBPs 1-6. Herein, we demonstrate that the stromal cell-derived extracellular matrix-degra...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fowlkes JL,Serra DM,Bunn RC,Thrailkill KM,Enghild JJ,Nagase H

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic synthesis of alpha 2u-globulin and its mRNA in the male rat is dependent on androgen, glucocorticoid, T4, insulin, and GH. Some of these hormones may act directly on the liver, while others may influence alpha 2u-globulin synthesis through indirect physiological changes. In the present study the specific role ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Murty CV,Rao KV,Roy AK

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on both vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and PRL production and gene expression were studied using rat anterior pituitary cell cultures grown in serum-free defined medium. We also examined whether pituitary VIP could be involved in the PRL respon...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lara JI,Lorenzo MJ,Cacicedo L,Tolón RM,Balsa JA,López-Fernández J,Sánchez-Franco F

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyadenylated RNA, extracted from rat hypothalami, cross-hybridized with a RNA probe complementary in sequence to rat PTH (rPTH) messenger RNA (mRNA). Amplification of complementary DNA (cDNA) by the polymerase chain reaction also demonstrated the presence of rPTH mRNA in the rat hypothalamus and parathyroid gland. r...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fraser RA,Kronenberg HM,Pang PK,Harvey S

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunosympathectomy produced by treatment of newborn rats with antibodies to nerve growth factor (NGF) delays ovarian development and disrupts estrous cyclicity. While these alterations have been ascribed to loss of sympathetic neurons innervating the ovary, the treatment also causes partial loss of ovarian sensory in...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lara HE,McDonald JK,Ahmed CE,Ojeda SR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human proenkephalin generated by means of a recombinant vaccinia virus expression vector was used as the substrate for a putative processing enzyme obtained from bovine adrenal chromaffin granules. The adrenal enzyme successfully cleaved proenkephalin to generate low mol wt enkephalins as well as other enkephalin-cont...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lindberg I,Thomas G

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arginine vasopressin (AVP) stimulates the secretion of ACTH from pituitary corticotropes. We investigated the action of AVP in single corticotropes of male rats. Corticotropes were identified with the reverse hemolytic plaque assay using antibodies against ACTH. Using the whole-cell recording technique in conjunction ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tse A,Lee AK

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid (Gc) excess, from endogenous overproduction in disorders of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis or exogenous medical therapy, is recognized to cause adverse metabolic side effects. The Gc receptor (GR) is widely expressed throughout the body, including brain regions such as the hypothalamus. However...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sefton C,Harno E,Davies A,Small H,Allen TJ,Wray JR,Lawrence CB,Coll AP,White A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00