Dexamethasone treatment increases mitochondrial RNA synthesis in a rat hepatoma cell line.

abstract：:Prepubertal reproductive development in juvenile male Siberian hamsters can be strongly influenced by photoperiod information received during gestation. Information transmitted from the mother hamster to her fetuses appears to modify the photoperiodic mechanism of the developing hamsters so that they may respond diffe...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Shaw D,Goldman BD

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of corticosterone bound to proteins in the adenohypophysis and dorsal hippocampus was studied concurrently with the plasma ACTH concentration in 4-week adrenalectomized male rats under steady-state conditions achieved by infusing the steroid at a constant rate for 45 min. Corticosterone binding was measured...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rotsztejn WH,Normand M,Lalonde J,Fortier C

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of vitamin D deficiency and its correction by vitamin D or calcium-lactose supplementation on vitamin D receptor (VDR) expression in skin keratinocytes, kidney, and duodenum of adult rats. VDR messenger RNA (mRNA) was assayed by Northern blot, and VDR protein was determined immunocytochemically....

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zineb R,Zhor B,Odile W,Marthe RR

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediate filament protein nestin was originally found to be expressed in neuronal progenitor cells, but recent studies have shown that other cell types, including endocrine and vascular endothelial cells, express nestin. In the present study, we examined the expression and localization of nestin in the ovaries...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Takahashi N,Itoh MT,Ishizuka B

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitellogenin (Vg) is a major yolk protein precursor in numerous oviparous animals. Numerous studies in bilateral oviparous animals have shown that Vg sequences are conserved across taxa and that Vgs are synthesized by somatic-cell lineages, transported to and accumulated in oocytes, and eventually used for supporting ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Shikina S,Chen CJ,Chung YJ,Shao ZF,Liou JY,Tseng HP,Lee YH,Chang CF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated whether activation of the hexosamine biosynthesis pathway might mediate at least in part the high glucose effect on angiotensinogen (ANG) gene expression and immortalized renal proximal tubular cell (IRPTC) hypertrophy. IRPTC were cultured in monolayer. ANG, renin, and beta-actin mRNA ex...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hsieh TJ,Fustier P,Zhang SL,Filep JG,Tang SS,Ingelfinger JR,Fantus IG,Hamet P,Chan JS

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating levels of calcitonin precursors (CTpr), including procalcitonin (ProCT), increase up to several thousand-fold in human sepsis, and immunoneutralization improves survival in two animal models of this disease. Herein, we analyzed inflammation-mediated calcitonin I gene (CALC I) expression in human adipocyte ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Linscheid P,Seboek D,Nylen ES,Langer I,Schlatter M,Becker KL,Keller U,Müller B

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isoforms of the GH receptor, the full-length receptor (GHRL) and a short isoform (GHRS) that lacks the transmembrane and intracellular domains of GHRL, have been analyzed in rat tissue extracts by Western blotting and immunoprecipitation. Although quantitative estimates of GHRS and GHRL based on coprecipitation of...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Frick GP,Tai LR,Baumbach WR,Goodman HM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One physiological role for endogenous opioid peptides is to attenuate the release of oxytocin (OT) from the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system during dehydration and hemorrhage when vasopressin maintains fluid balance and blood pressure. During lactation, OT, which stimulates milk ejection, is released without vasopr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hartman RD,Rosella-Dampman LM,Summy-Long JY

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the gonads and adrenal glands, the transient increase in steroidogenesis after hormonal stimulation requires modulation of steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (Star) expression and activity in a tightly regulated process involving cAMP and Ca(2+). In Leydig cells, the cAMP and Ca(2+) pathways account for most if...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Abdou HS,Villeneuve G,Tremblay JJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously established the value of 2-dimensional electrophoretic mRNA activity profiles for investigating the hepatic genomic response to several metabolic perturbations, such as thyroid hormone or GH treatment, diabetes, high carbohydrate diet, starvation, and uremia. We now report the effects of adrenalecto...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Beyer HS,Carr FE,Mariash CN,Oppenheimer JH

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin, a novel GH-releasing acylated peptide, was recently isolated from rat stomach. It stimulated the release of GH from the anterior pituitary through the GH secretagogue receptor (GHS-R). Ghrelin messenger RNA and the peptide are present in rat stomach, but its cellular source has yet to be determined. Using two...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Date Y,Kojima M,Hosoda H,Sawaguchi A,Mondal MS,Suganuma T,Matsukura S,Kangawa K,Nakazato M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a primary culture of neonatal rat heart, we investigated the properties of iodothyronine 5'-deiodinating activity in the heart. 125I- release from [125I] reverse T3 incubated with cell homogenates depended on the concentrations of protein and dithiothreitol, pH, incubation time, and temperature of the incubation...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mori Y,Nishikawa M,Toyoda N,Yonemoto T,Matsubara H,Inada M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testicular LH receptor occupancy and steroidogenic responses were measured in adult male rats after intracardiac injections of [125I]iodo-hCG (0.5--5 x 10(6) cpm) mixed with known amounts of nonradioactive hCG to yield doses ranging from 10 ng to 300 micrograms. Uptake of the hormone by the testis was measured in the ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Huhtaniemi IT,Clayton RN,Catt KJ

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leydig cells from mature rat testes contain high levels of 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11HSD), an enzyme that oxidatively inactivates glucocorticoids. We have proposed that the 11HSD of Leydig cells protects the testis from the effects of high levels of glucocorticoids, as may occur in stress and Cushing's d...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Monder C,Miroff Y,Marandici A,Hardy MP

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As ovariectomy induces obesity in rats, we have investigated the influence of ovariectomy and hormone replacement on the proliferation and differentiation capacities of rat cultured preadipocytes removed from different fat depots (femoral sc, parametrial, and perirenal). Ovariectomy induced increased proliferation and...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lacasa D,Garcia E,Agli B,Giudicelli Y

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that neurotensin (NT) is released from the small intestine and elevated in the hepatic-portal circulation in response to the perfusion of the small intestine with a micellar solution of oleic acid. In order to determine the minimum acyl chain length and whether the presence of a carboxylic ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ferris CF,Armstrong MJ,George JK,Stevens CA,Carraway RE,Leeman SE

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain metabolic properties of hormonally responsive osteogenic sarcoma cells derived from a transplantable rat tumor have been compared with those of related normal rat bone cells. All studies were carried out on cells grown in monolayer culture. Normal rat bone cells derived by repeated collagenase/trypsin digestio...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Partridge NC,Alcorn D,Michelangeli VP,Kemp BE,Ryan GB,Martin TJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review describes formation of the islet basement membrane and the function of extracellular matrix (ECM) components in β-cell proliferation and survival. Implications for islet transplantation are discussed. The insulin-producing β-cell is key for maintaining glucose homeostasis. The islet microenvironment greatl...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Townsend SE,Gannon M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a 0-32% continuous metrizamide density gradient, interstitial cells could be separated into five distinct bands. Cells localized in bands 1 (B1), 2 (B2), and 3 (B3) were isolated and incubated for 1h with or without human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). Both B2 and B3 cells responded to hCG with increased cyclic A...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lin T,Lincoln TM,Brown N,Murono EP,Osterman J,Nankin HR

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare 20K isoform of GH-V (here abbreviated as GHv) was discovered in 1998. To date, only 1 research article has characterized this isoform in vivo, observing that GHv treatment in male high-fat fed rats had several GH-like activities, but unlike GH lacked diabetogenic and lactogenic activities and failed to increase...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： List EO,Berryman DE,Basu R,Buchman M,Funk K,Kulkarni P,Duran-Ortiz S,Qian Y,Jensen EA,Young JA,Yildirim G,Yakar S,Kopchick JJ

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the estrogen responsiveness and -binding capacity of cultured rat uterine cells were decreased dramatically when the medium was not changed at 24-h intervals. Treatment of cells for 24 h with 1 nM 17 beta-estradiol in fresh medium led to a 3-fold increase in progesterone receptor concentration, but without fresh ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kassis JA,Walent JH,Gorski J

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurosteroids are steroids that are synthesized de novo in the brain and include some classical (adrenal and gonadal steroids) and some unique brain-specific steroids. Neurosteroids are thought to mediate their action through ion gated channel receptors such as gamma-aminobutyric acid(A) and N-methyl-D-aspartate rathe...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Compagnone NA,Bulfone A,Rubenstein JL,Mellon SH

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1), the primary substrate for the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase in most cells and tissues, is a key component of the insulin signaling network. Numerous studies have documented the trafficking of IRS-1 from the cell membrane to intracellular, extranuclear compartments. During the c...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Boylan JM,Gruppuso PA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that dopamine-evoked inhibition of corticosteroid production from adrenocortical cells is mediated through a decrease in prostaglandin biosynthesis. Since the catecholamine did not alter the stimulatory effect of arachidonic acid, it was proposed that dopamine may inhibit the formation of arac...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Morra M,Leboulenger F,Desrues L,Tonon MC,Vaudry H

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have used a high affinity photoaffinity label (PAL) agonist (pGlu-His-Trp-Ser-125I-iodoTyr-D-Lys(para-N3-Benzoyl)-Leu-Arg-P roNHEt) and a PAL antagonist (NAcD2Nal-D4ClPhe-D3Pal-Ser-125I-iodo-NMeTyr-D-L ys(para-N3-Benzoyl)Leu-Lys(Isp) - Pro-D-Ala-NH2) to covalently label the GnRH receptor. Rat p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Janovick JA,Haviv F,Fitzpatrick TD,Conn PM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) resulting from ovarian autoimmunity is a poorly understood clinical condition lacking in effective treatments. Understanding the targets of the autoimmune response and induction of ovarian-specific tolerance would allow development of focused therapies to preserve fertility in an at...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Otsuka N,Tong ZB,Vanevski K,Tu W,Cheng MH,Nelson LM

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of what starts the circadian clock ticking was addressed by studying the developmental appearance of the daily rhythm in the expression of two genes in the zebrafish pineal gland that are part of the circadian clock system. One encodes the photopigment exorhodopsin and the other the melatonin synthesizing en...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Vuilleumier R,Besseau L,Boeuf G,Piparelli A,Gothilf Y,Gehring WG,Klein DC,Falcón J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic neuropeptide Y (NPY) and proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons act to sense and coordinate the brain's responses to metabolic cues. One neuronal network that is very sensitive to metabolic status is that controlling fertility. In this study, we investigated the impact of neuropeptides released by NPY and POM...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Roa J,Herbison AE

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine serum contains five insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins (IGFBPs), whose regulation has been studied by ligand blotting. To more accurately quantify changes in two specific forms of IGFBP a heterologous RIA for porcine (p) IGFBP-2 was developed, and IGFBP-1 levels were analyzed by immunoblotting. By RIA...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： McCusker RH,Cohick WS,Busby WH,Clemmons DR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00