A pathway for luteinizing hormone releasing-hormone self-potentiation: cross-talk with the progesterone receptor.

abstract：:Fibrosis (extracellular matrix accumulation) is the final end point in diabetic cardiomyopathy. The current study evaluated the therapeutic effects of the antifibrotic hormone relaxin (RLX) in streptozotocin-treated transgenic mRen-2 rats, which undergo pathological and functional features similar to human diabetes. T...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Samuel CS,Hewitson TD,Zhang Y,Kelly DJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum levels of progesterone in hysterectomized gilts were determined to evaluate the effects of exogenous 17 beta-estradiol (17 beta-E2) on the secretory activity of aging corpora lutea. Gilts were hysterectomized on day 6 of the estrous cycle and given im injections of 17 beta-E2 to mimic blood levels of endogenous ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Musah AI,Ford JJ,Anderson LL

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The formation of a new blood supply, angiogenesis, is an essential component of carcinogenesis and unrestricted tumor growth. A substance capable of inhibiting angiogenesis would be of considerable therapeutic potential in the treatment of cancer. We previously reported that the 16-kilodalton N-terminal fragment of ra...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Clapp C,Martial JA,Guzman RC,Rentier-Delure F,Weiner RI

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the developing follicle, follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) are the primary stimulators of steroidogenesis in granulosa and theca cells. The steroidogenic actions of both these gonadotropins are largely if not exclusively mediated through cAMP. Previous studies have shown that EGF and T...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gangrade BK,Davis JS,May JV

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with systemic inflammation and elevated levels of TNFα, leading to impaired glucose tolerance. In humans, obesity is also associated with reduced nutrient-stimulated secretion of the intestinal incretin hormone, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). We hypothesized that TNFα plays a direct role in the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gagnon J,Sauvé M,Zhao W,Stacey HM,Wiber SC,Bolz SS,Brubaker PL

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to now, no relevant tumor antigen has been identified in medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). The aim of the present study was to prove the concept of an immunization with an amino acid-modified calcitonin (CT) for the treatment of MTC in a transgenic mouse model. Amino acid-modified (human) CT has been chosen for va...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wuttke M,Papewalis C,Meyer Y,Kessler C,Jacobs B,Willenberg HS,Schinner S,Kouatchoua C,Baehring T,Scherbaum WA,Schott M

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate brain was thought to contain only the GnRH known as mammalian GnRH (mGnRH). This study investigates whether a second form of GnRH exists within the primate brain. We found that brain extracts from adult stumptail and rhesus monkeys contained two forms of GnRH that were similar to mGnRH and chicken GnRH-II ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lescheid DW,Terasawa E,Abler LA,Urbanski HF,Warby CM,Millar RP,Sherwood NM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) has a biphasic clinical phenotype with failure to thrive in the neonatal period followed by hyperphagia and severe obesity commencing in childhood among other endocrinological and neurobehavioral abnormalities. The syndrome results from loss of function of several clustered, paternally expr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stefan M,Ji H,Simmons RA,Cummings DE,Ahima RS,Friedman MI,Nicholls RD

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty (OLETF) rats lacking cholecystokinin-A receptors are hyperphagic, obese, and diabetic. Although exercise attenuates OLETF rats' obesity, the mechanisms underlying the effects of exercise are unclear. In this study, we determined the effects of running wheel activity on patterns of bod...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bi S,Scott KA,Hyun J,Ladenheim EE,Moran TH

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF binding protein-2 (IGFBP-2) has been implicated in the development and spread of a number of tumor types, and its abrogation in experimental models of cancer is associated with decreased tumor growth. This suggests that targeted inhibition of IGFBP-2 expression in some cancers may have therapeutic benefit. In this...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Martin JL,Baxter RC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure porcine cholecystokinin-33 [the triacontatriapeptide form of cholecystokinin (CCK-33)], gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP), and secretin were infused in rats in doses of 1, 10 and 1000 pmol/kg . min. The peptides were administered alone or in combination with glucose (40 mg/kg . min) or arginine (50 mg/kg . min...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Szecówka J,Lins PE,Efendić S

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, the role of pancreatic hormones in pancreatic islet growth and differentiation is poorly understood. To address this issue, we examined mice with a disruption in the gene encoding prohormone convertase 2 (PC2). These mice are unable to process proglucagon, prosomatostatin, and other neuroendocrine precursors ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Vincent M,Guz Y,Rozenberg M,Webb G,Furuta M,Steiner D,Teitelman G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural requirements for the inhibition of net bone collagen synthesis by parathyroid hormone (PTH) in vitro have been examined by study of the effects of selected fragments and analogs of bovine PTH (bPTH) upon the incorporation of [3H]proline into collagenase-digestible and -nondigestible proteins by neonatal...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bringhurst FR,Potts JT Jr

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a subset of neurons was identified in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus that colocalize three neuropeptides, kisspeptin, neurokinin B, and dynorphin, each of which has been shown to play a critical role in the central control of reproduction. Growing evidence suggests that these neurons, abbreviated as...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lehman MN,Coolen LM,Goodman RL

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GH controls its own secretion through a mechanism involving short-loop feedback regulation of the synthesis and release of GH-releasing hormone (GHRH). GHRH neurons coexpress the peptide galanin, but the functional significance of this coexpression is unknown. In this study, we tested the hypotheses that 1) galanin ge...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chan YY,Grafstein-Dunn E,Delemarre-van de Waal HA,Burton KA,Clifton DK,Steiner RA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early life exposure to immunological challenge has programming effects on the adult hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis stress responsivity, and stress is known to suppress GnRH pulse generator activity, especially LH pulses. We investigated the effects of neonatal exposure to endotoxin on stress-induced suppres...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li XF,Kinsey-Jones JS,Knox AM,Wu XQ,Tahsinsoy D,Brain SD,Lightman SL,O'Byrne KT

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(+)/I(-) symporter (NIS)-mediated iodide uptake into thyroid follicular cells serves as the basis of radioiodine therapy for thyroid cancer. NIS protein is also expressed in the majority of breast tumors, raising potential for radionuclide therapy of breast cancer. KT5823, a staurosporine-related protein kinase inhi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Beyer S,Lakshmanan A,Liu YY,Zhang X,Wapnir I,Smolenski A,Jhiang S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mammals, skeletal muscle mass is negatively regulated by a muscle-derived growth/differentiating factor named myostatin (MSTN) that belongs to the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily. Although putative MSTN homologs have been identified from several vertebrates, nonmammalian orthologs remained poorly define...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rodgers BD,Weber GM,Sullivan CV,Levine MA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The placenta is the primary source of estrogens and progesterone during pregnancy. Because pregnant diabetic women are reported to have lower serum estrogen and higher progesterone levels than nondiabetic pregnant women, and placental insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) production may be elevated during diabetic pr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nestler JE

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:17 beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17HSD) catalyzes the reversible conversion of estrone into estradiol. The complementary DNA (cDNA) coding for rat 17HSD type 1 was cloned from a commercial rat ovarian cDNA library, using human 17HSD type 1 cDNA as a probe. The nucleotide sequence extends for 1160 basepairs (bp), ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ghersevich S,Nokelainen P,Poutanen M,Orava M,Autio-Harmainen H,Rajaniemi H,Vihko R

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Hyperactivation of the GHRH receptor or downstream signaling components is associated with hyperplasia of the pituitary somatotrope population, in which adenomas form relatively late in life, with less than 100% penetrance. Hyperplastic and adenomatous pituitaries of metallothionein promoter-human GHRH transgenic (Tg)...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Luque RM,Soares BS,Peng XD,Krishnan S,Cordoba-Chacon J,Frohman LA,Kineman RD

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PTH stimulates bone formation and increases hematopoietic stem cells through mechanisms as yet uncertain. The purpose of this study was to identify mechanisms by which PTH links actions on cells of hematopoietic origin with osteoblast-mediated bone formation. C57B6 mice (10 d) were nonlethally irradiated and then admi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Koh AJ,Novince CM,Li X,Wang T,Taichman RS,McCauley LK

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to determine whether T3 could modify anterior pituitary Ca++ metabolism under basal conditions and in the presence of TRH. Paired hemipituitaries from hypothyroid rats were preincubated with T3 (10(-7) M) for 2 h, allowed to accumulate 45Ca++ for the third hour, and repeatedly washed i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schrey MP,Larsen PR

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PRL) is an immunomodulatory hormone which promotes T-cell activation and proliferation. However, the intracellular mechanisms of this action in normal lymphocytes are unknown. Because the PRL receptor (PRLR) activates several signals also activated by the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR)/CD3 complex, we evalua...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Montgomery DW,Krumenacker JS,Buckley AR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adipokine, leptin (LEP), is a hormonal gateway, signaling energy stores to appetite-regulatory neurons, permitting reproduction when stores are sufficient. Dual-labeling for LEP receptors (LEPRs) and gonadotropins or GH revealed a 2-fold increase in LEPR during proestrus, some of which was seen in LH gonadotropes....

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Akhter N,CarlLee T,Syed MM,Odle AK,Cozart MA,Haney AC,Allensworth-James ML,Beneš H,Childs GV

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maternal plasma concentrations of GH and PRL increase dramatically upon the initiation of lactation in the rat. In light of the fact that these two hormones have evolved from one common precursor, we sought to determine if the neuroendocrine mechanisms regulating their concomitant increase during lactation are com...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wehrenberg WB,Gaillard RC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of gonadotropins on phosphodiesterase activity of rat granulosa cells was studied in an in vitro model. Granulosa cells were prepared from hypophysectomized or intact, estrogen-primed immature female rats and treated with FSH, hCG, or (Bu)2cAMP in vitro. Phosphodiesterase activity was determined in cell hom...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Conti M,Kasson BG,Hsueh AJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GnRH neurons form the final common pathway regulating the secretion of gonadotropins from the anterior pituitary. Since the patterns of gonadotropin release display profound sexual dimorphism among mammals including the rodent, we undertook an ultrastructural analysis to determine whether these neurosecretory cells we...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chen WP,Witkin JW,Silverman AJ

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CYP11A1 encodes cytochrome P450scc, catalyzing the first step of steroidogenesis in adrenals and gonads under the control of cAMP-mediated hormonal signals. The cAMP-induced activation of human CYP11A1 has been suggested to depend on the transcription factor cAMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB), but the ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Guo IC,Huang CY,Wang CK,Chung BC

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00