Development-related effects of recombinant activin on steroid synthesis in rat granulosa cells.

abstract：:The CRH-binding protein (CRH-BP) antagonizes the ACTH-releasing activity of the neuropeptide CRH in vitro. However, the function of CRH-BP in vivo and the molecular mechanisms that regulate CRH-BP expression are not well understood. In this study, the rat CRH-BP gene was characterized, and CRH-BP promoter sequences we...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cortright DN,Goosens KA,Lesh JS,Seasholtz AF

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male and female Holtzman rats were raised from weaning on a vitamin D-deficient diet (-D). Control (+D) animals were raised on the same diet and orally given 70 IU vitamin D3 twice each week. Serum Ca levels fell at the same rate in -D males and females. In contrast, serum parathyroid hormone increased more rapidly in...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Thomas ML,Forte LR

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GH promotes the conversion of cultured preadipose 3T3 cells into adipose cells. The serum of most animals also promotes this differentiation. In order to determine the extent to which GH is responsible for the adipogenic activity of serum, we used a specific antiserum able to suppress completely the adipogenic activit...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nixon T,Green H

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is an anorexigenic neuropeptide synthesized in the hypothalamus. A Leu34Phe missense mutation in proCART has been found in an obese family in humans. Here we show that humans bearing the Leu34Phe mutation in proCART have severely diminished levels of bioactive CART,...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yanik T,Dominguez G,Kuhar MJ,Del Giudice EM,Loh YP

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequent blood sampling via intraatrial cannula revealed daily rhythms of TSH and thyroid hormones in both male and female Wistar rats. Thermic ablation of the biological clock, i.e. the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), eliminated the diurnal peak in circulating TSH and thyroid hormones. In addition, SCN lesions produce...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kalsbeek A,Fliers E,Franke AN,Wortel J,Buijs RM

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：:In situ hybridization histochemistry was used to monitor the expression of 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, delta4-isomerase (3betaHSD) and cytochrome P450 11beta-hydroxylase (P45011beta) messenger RNA (mRNA) in adult rat adrenals after stimulation in vivo. In Exp 1, adrenals were collected from rats injected with ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Engeland WC,Levay-Young BK,Rogers LM,Fitzgerald D

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of rat CRF, arginine vasopressin (VP), oxytocin (OXY), and isoproterenol (ISO) on the biosynthesis and release of pro-ACTH/endorphin-derived peptides by monolayer cultures of rat anterior pituitary cells in complete serum-free medium (CSFM) were studied. When cells were exposed to hormone for 3 h, CRF, VP,...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wand GS,Eipper BA

更新日期：1987-03-01 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：:We have investigated the characteristics and properties of cholesterol esterase (CEase) in the rat adrenal to clarify the mechanism of synthesis of free cholesterol from esterified cholesterol. CEase activity was estimated using substrate vesicles which were sonicated mixtures of cholesteryl oleate and phosphatidylcho...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nishikawa T,Mikami K,Saito Y,Tamura Y,Kumagai A

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum and pituitary thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) was measured by radioimmunoassay in male and female Sprague-Dawley rats from 21 through 80 days of age. In males, serum TSH levels increased progressively from days 30 through 50, and were found to be lower on days 60, 70, and 80. In females, serum TSH levels were ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Simpkins JW,Bruni JF,Mioduszewski RJ,Meites J

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone accelerates energy expenditure (EE) and is critical for cold-induced thermogenesis. To define the metabolic role played by thyroid hormone in the dissipation of calories from diet, hypothyroid mice were studied for 60 d in a comprehensive lab animal monitoring system. Hypothyroidism decreased caloric i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ueta CB,Olivares EL,Bianco AC

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin is more effective than GHRH in stimulating GH release in normal adult humans and monkeys in vivo. This robust effect of ghrelin has been largely attributed to regulation of hypothalamic input, whereas the direct effect of ghrelin on pituitary GH release has been minimized by the observation that ghrelin has on...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kineman RD,Luque RM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cilostazol, a dual inhibitor of type 3 phosphodiesterase and adenosine uptake, on ion currents were investigated in pituitary GH(3) cells and pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. In whole-cell configuration, cilostazol (10 microm) reversibly increased the amplitude of Ca(2+)-activated K(+) current [I(K(Ca))]. C...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wu SN,Liu SI,Huang MH

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin receptor substrate-1 (IRS-1) has an important role as an early intermediary between the insulin and IGF receptors and downstream molecules that participate in insulin and IGF-I signal transduction. Here we employed an antisense oligonucleotide (IRS-1AS) to inhibit whole-body expression of IRS-1 in vivo and eva...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Araújo EP,De Souza CT,Gasparetti AL,Ueno M,Boschero AC,Saad MJ,Velloso LA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Pax6 transcription factor is crucial for pancreatic α-cells. Indeed, Pax6-deficient mouse models are characterized by markedly altered α-cell differentiation. Our objective was to investigate the role of Pax6 in glucagon secretion process. We used a Pax6-deficient model in rat primary enriched-α cells with specifi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gosmain Y,Cheyssac C,Masson MH,Guérardel A,Poisson C,Philippe J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastrin is natriuretic, but its renal molecular targets and signal transduction pathways are not fully known. In this study, we confirmed the existence of CCKBR (a gastrin receptor) in male human renal proximal tubule cells and discovered that gastrin induced S6 phosphorylation, a downstream component of the phosphati...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Liu T,Jose PA

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed that insulin appears in the chick embryo before beta-cells are recognizable, as well as in the egg constituents even before fertilization. Acid-ethanol extracts of 2- to 8-day-old embryos were gel-filtered on Sephadex G-50. The peak of immunoreactive insulin chromatographed in a position corresponding to tha...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： De Pablo F,Roth J,Hernandez E,Pruss RM

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dexamethasone, a synthetic glucocorticoid, inhibits the initial rate of transport of the nonmetabolizable amino acid, alpha-aminoisobutyric acid, in rat hepatoma tissue culture (HTC) cells. To determine whether this inhibition is mediated by the same proximal steps as is the steroidal induction of tyrosine aminotransf...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gelehrter TD,McDonald RA

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estrogen-responsive uterine proenzyme of a proteinase in the immature rat uterus has been known for some time. Its mol wt is 77,000, its N-terminal amino acid sequence is the same as prothrombin's for 15 residues, it contains gamma-carboxyl glutamate residues, its biosynthesis is prevented by warfarin, it cross-rea...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Henrikson KP,Jazin EE,Greenwood JA,Dickerman HW

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin is a potent regulator of Sp1 transcription factor. To examine if glucagon, which usually antagonizes insulin, regulates Sp1, we assessed the levels of Sp1 by Western blotting from H-411E cells exposed to glucagon with or without insulin. Glucagon alone (1.5 x 10(-9) to 1.5 x 10(-5) M) stimulated Sp1 accumulati...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Keembiyehetty CN,Candelaria RP,Majumdar G,Raghow R,Martinez-Hernandez A,Solomon SS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice with the recessively inherited obese-hyperglycemic syndrome (ob/ob) and their nonobese litter mates were studied over a 26-week period. The body weights and serum glucose levels of ob/ob mice began to rise markedly at 5-6 weeks of age and remained elevated throughout the period of study. Obese mice were significa...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Larson BA,Sinha YN,Vanderlaan WP

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite understanding the molecular basis of activin/TGF beta and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling, this study is the first to characterize multiple, sequential elements of these pathways in the ovary concurrently. The expression of activin/BMP receptor, Smad, and beta glycan mRNAs by postnatal rat ovaries w...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Drummond AE,Le MT,Ethier JF,Dyson M,Findlay JK

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A diurnal change of tuberoinfundibular dopaminergic (TIDA) neuronal activity exists in female rats, which is prerequisite for the estrogen-induced afternoon PRL surge. Because progesterone (P4) administered in the morning can advance and amplify the PRL surge, it is of interest to learn whether its action involves the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yen SH,Pan JT

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inside-out plasma membrane vesicles from a glucose-responsive rat insulinoma showed an ATP- and Mg2(+)-dependent uptake of Ca2+. The Km (concentration giving half-maximal activity) for Ca2+ was 60 nM. In the presence of 0.4 microM free Ca2+, the Km for ATP was 15 microM, and the Km for Mg2+ was 4 microM. Glucose (30 m...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hoenig M,Culberson LH,Ferguson DC

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：:Circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) increase during puberty, concurrent with an increase in the levels of GH and the gonadal steroids. The relationship between the changes observed in IGF-I and testosterone (T) levels are not understood. This study was designed to determine whether T has a direc...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Phillip M,Palese T,Hernandez ER,Roberts CT Jr,LeRoith D,Kowarski AA

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described FSH receptor-mediated influx of 45Ca++ in cultured Sertoli cells from immature rats and receptor-enriched proteoliposomes via activation of voltage-sensitive and voltage-independent calcium channels. We have further shown that this effect of FSH does not require cholera toxin- or pertussis...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Grasso P,Santa-Coloma TA,Reichert LE Jr

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacological amounts of 25(s),26-dihydroxyvitamin D3 were administered to normal, vitamin D-replete rats in order to assess its pharmacological activity. Treatment with 25(s),26-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (20 micrograms/day for 1 week) caused a marked and significant fall in the circulating concentration of 1,25-dihydroxy...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zerwekh JE,Harvey JA,Pak CY

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the physiological regulation and functional significance of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in the endocrine melanotrope cells of the pituitary pars intermedia of the amphibian Xenopus laevis, which can adapt its skin color to the light intensity of its environment. In black-adapted anima...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kramer BM,Cruijsen PM,Ouwens DT,Coolen MW,Martens GJ,Roubos EW,Jenks BG

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00