Androgen receptor in sertoli cell is essential for germ cell nursery and junctional complex formation in mouse testes.

abstract：:Important enzymes for thyroid hormone metabolism, antioxidative defense, and intracellular redox control contain selenocysteine (Sec) in their active centers. Expression of these selenoproteins is tightly controlled, and a sex-specific phenotype is observed on disturbance of selenium (Se) transport in mice. Therefore,...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Riese C,Michaelis M,Mentrup B,Götz F,Köhrle J,Schweizer U,Schomburg L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progesterone, which is normally produced in the endoplasmic reticulum, was found to be rapidly degraded in the cytosolic fraction of the guinea pig adrenal cortex in vitro. Assuming this finding reflects what happens in vivo raises a question as to the source of progesterone for interacting with a nuclear progesterone...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Demura T,Driscoll WJ,Strott CA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylamine and monensin are two agents known to interfere with the recycling of membrane receptors. In the present investigation, we studied their effects on the binding, intracellular distribution, and action of insulin in isolated pancreatic acini prepared from diabetic mice. These drugs had several similar effects...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Potau N,Bailey AC,Roach E,Williams JA,Goldfine ID

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A heat-stable protein which inhibits cAMP dependent protein kinase was prepared from the bovine thyroid 100,000 X g supernatant. This protein inhibited the cAMP-dependent protein kinase both from bovine thyroid cytosol and bovine thyroid plasma membranes. The inhibitory effect was noncompetitive with histone as substr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hashizume K,DeGroot LJ

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) 2 and 4 can stimulate FSHbeta-subunit (Fshb) transcription alone and in synergy with activins. We further showed that BMP2 signals via the BMP type IA receptor (or activin receptor-like kinase 3) to mediate its effects. However, the intracellular mechanisms ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ho CC,Bernard DJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of naloxone (N-allylnoroxymorphone), a narcotic antagonist, on the morphine blockade of ovulation was studied. Female rats were treated with morphine (50 mg/kg) at the critical period, resulting in ovulatory blockade. The administration of naloxone (0.5 mg/kg) effectively reversed the anti-ovulatory effect ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Packman PM,Rothchild JA

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The previously reported synchronous oscillations in plasma glucose and insulin levels have been further studied to determine whether the phenomenon can be attributed to cyclic secretion or degradation of the hormone. Plasma C-peptide concentrations were measured and found to cycle with the same period as plasma insuli...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Koerker DJ,Goodner CJ,Hansen BW,Brown AC,Rubenstein AH

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat pituitary cells express messenger RNA for the activin-binding protein, follistatin (FS), and rat and bovine pituitary cell cultures secrete FS into the medium. In the present study, a previously validated, heterologous RIA for ovine FS was employed to investigate FS synthesis, secretion, and regulation in cultures...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Farnworth PG,Thean E,Robertson DM,Schwartz J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antral hormone gastrin and its intestinal relative, cholecystokinin (CCK), are pivotal in the regulation of gastric functions. Other gastric hormones like ghrelin, peptide YY (PYY), and islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP), however, also contribute to the regulation of acid secretion, motility, and feeding. Because ga...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Friis-Hansen L,Wierup N,Rehfeld JF,Sundler F

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wnt-initiated signaling through a frizzled receptor and the low-density lipoprotein-related receptor-5 coreceptor instructs key anabolic events during skeletal development, homeostasis, and repair. Recent studies indicate that Wnt signaling also regulates the intermediary metabolism of osteoblastic cells, inducing glu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Frey JL,Kim SP,Li Z,Wolfgang MJ,Riddle RC

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of pineal indole compounds on the response of the neonatal rat anterior pituitary gland to LH-releasing hormone (LHRH) were studied in organ culture. After 24 h of culture under control conditions, pituitary glands from 5-day-old female rats were routinely incubated for an additional 24 h with the test com...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Martin JE,Engel JN,Klein DC

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the role of calcium in dopaminergic control of the neuroendocrine effects of neurotensin. In primary cultures of dispersed normal female rat anterior pituitary cells the interactions of dopamine and neurotensin were examined with reference to the rate of PRL release, the magnitude of 45Ca2+ uptake, the rate...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Login IS,Kuan SI,Judd AM,MacLeod RM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present studies were designed to evaluate the binding characteristics of arginine vasopressin (AVP), using rat anterior pituitary dispersed cells, in correlation with the biological activity of the peptide. Synthetic AVP released ACTH from dispersed anterior pituitary cells in a concentration-dependent fashion, wi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Spinedi E,Negro-Vilar A

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although tamoxifen (TAM), a selective estrogen receptor modulator, has been widely used in the treatment of hormone-responsive breast cancer, its estrogen-like effect increases the risk of endometrial cancer. However, the molecular mechanisms of TAM-induced endometrial carcinoma still remain unclear. In this report, w...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bai JX,Yan B,Zhao ZN,Xiao X,Qin WW,Zhang R,Jia LT,Meng YL,Jin BQ,Fan DM,Wang T,Yang AG

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma concentrations of IGF-1 decrease markedly during starvation secondary to a reduction in somatotropic receptors in the liver. We investigated whether IGF-1 administration during starvation in mice inhibits the catabolic state normally observed. Plasma concentrations of IGF-1 in starved mice receiving IGF-1 thera...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： O'Sullivan U,Gluckman PD,Breier BH,Woodall S,Siddiqui RA,McCutcheon SN

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that excision of the GnRH first intron (intron A) was largely attenuated in non-GnRH-producing tissues but accelerated in GnRH neurons. In the present study, we examined the splicing rate of GnRH pre-mRNA in developing normal mice and adult hypogonadal mice. The preoptic area and cerebral c...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Seong JY,Kim BW,Park S,Son GH,Kim K

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of the thyroid hormone-binding plasma protein transthyretin in the bloodstream was investigated for four American marsupial species. Serum samples were analyzed by incubation with radioactive T4, followed by electrophoresis, then autoradiography, and Western blotting. Transthyretin was found in serum fr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Richardson SJ,Wettenhall RE,Schreiber G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have demonstrated two heat shock proteins (HSP's) in the human placenta that specifically bind calcitonin. Binding specificity was shown by ligand-affinity chromatography and by competitive binding studies. The HSP's were identified by Western analysis and by amino acid sequence. Our observations are consistent wit...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dana RC,Welch WJ,Deftos LJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormone-dependent breast cancers respond to inhibitors of estrogen synthesis or action with tumor regression and with a reduction of new metastases. The mechanisms underlying the effects of estrogen on metastasis likely differ from those on tumor regression. Cell migration is a key first step in the metastatic process...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li Y,Wang JP,Santen RJ,Kim TH,Park H,Fan P,Yue W

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of galanin gene expression in the anterior pituitary (AP) is positively influenced by estrogen in rodents and undetermined in humans. The objective of this study was to investigate the mechanism behind estrogen induction of galanin by identifying any putative estrogen receptor (ER) binding sequences within ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Howard G,Peng L,Hyde JF

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 3 deiodinase (D3), the physiologic inactivator of thyroid hormones, is induced during tissue injury and regeneration. This has led to the hypotheses that D3 impacts injury tolerance by reducing local T3 signaling and contributes to the fall in serum triiodothyronine (T3) observed in up to 75% of sick patients (te...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Castroneves LA,Jugo RH,Maynard MA,Lee JS,Wassner AJ,Dorfman D,Bronson RT,Ukomadu C,Agoston AT,Ding L,Luongo C,Guo C,Song H,Demchev V,Lee NY,Feldman HA,Vella KR,Peake RW,Hartigan C,Kellogg MD,Desai A,Salvatore D

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perinatal rat exhibits low serum TSH levels in the presence of very low concentrations of T3 and T4. We had reported previously that this animal does not require endogenous TRH for TSH release. We investigated here whether the inhibitory hormone somatostatin (SS) has a role in maintaining the low TSH secretory set...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Theodoropoulos TJ

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which aluminum chloride stimulates de novo bone formation is unknown. To evaluate the role of bone remodeling and mature osteoblastic function in aluminum-induced neoosteogenesis, we compared the osteogenic effects of aluminum in normal beagles to those in animals with low turnover osteomalacia induce...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Quarles LD,Drezner MK

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose release from the liver is mediated by hypothalamic norepinephrine (NE) neuronal activity, but glucose itself (or a metabolite of it) exerts negative feedback effects on central NE activity. The aim of the present study was to investigate a possible role for insulin in these central glucose homeostatic mechanis...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Smythe GA,Bradshaw JE,Nicholson MV,Grunstein HS,Storlien LH

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) are major constituents of the medial layer of blood vessels and are involved in the development of atherosclerotic plaque. SMC secrete copious IL-6 under basal conditions that can be increased by cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta). The goal...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Maret A,Clamens S,Delrieu I,Elhage R,Arnal JF,Bayard F

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was designed to investigate the ability of prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2 alpha) to activate a second messenger system (phosphatidylinositol pathway) in corpora lutea (CL) of rhesus monkeys. Activation of this pathway was assessed by monitoring the hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol to inositol phospha...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Houmard BS,Guan Z,Stokes BT,Ottobre JS

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenoestrogens from synthetic or natural origin represent an increasing risk of disrupted endocrine functions including the physiological activity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonad axis. Ethinyl estradiol (EE2) is a synthetic estrogen used in contraceptive pills, whereas zearalenone (ZEA) is a natural mycoestrogen fou...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kriszt R,Winkler Z,Polyák Á,Kuti D,Molnár C,Hrabovszky E,Kalló I,Szőke Z,Ferenczi S,Kovács KJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin, a member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily, binds to two classes of cell surface receptors. These receptors, designated type I and type II, are structurally related members of transmembrane serine kinase superfamily. Antibodies specific for either type I or type II activin receptor can coprec...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tsuchida K,Vaughan JM,Wiater E,Gaddy-Kurten D,Vale WW

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact 23 kilodalton (kDa), rat PRL is enzymatically cleaved in many target tissues to a 16 kDa (16K PRL) and an 8 kDa fragment. After reduction of an internal disulfide bond the fragments are released. 16K PRL was shown to be a potent mitogen on mammary epithelial cells via PRL receptors. Since estradiol-induced prol...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ferrara N,Clapp C,Weiner R

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete hypothalamic deafferentation, either limited to the median eminence, arcuate nucleus, and basal parts of ventromedial nuclei, or comprising ventromedial nuclei and dorsomedial hypothalamus as well reduced considerably the rise of immunoassayable serum TSH in adult male rats rendered hypothyroid by administrat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hefco E,Krulich L,Aschenbrenner JE

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00