Delayed mammary gland involution in mice with mutation of the insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 gene.

abstract：:G proteins were quantitated by immunoblot in normal rat anterior pituitary, an estrone-induced pituitary adenoma, and in two transplantable pituitary tumors resistant to dopamine, 7315a and MtTW15. Antisera specific for the alpha o and beta subunits or the alpha i subunit of G proteins were tested with all preparation...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Collu R,Bouvier C,Lagacé G,Unson CG,Milligan G,Goldsmith P,Spiegel AM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is a key regulator of triglyceride clearance. Its coordinated regulation during feeding and fasting is critical for maintaining lipid homeostasis and energy supply. Angiopoietin-like (Angptl)3 and Angptl4 are secreted proteins that have been demonstrated to regulate triglyceride metabolism by ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Köster A,Chao YB,Mosior M,Ford A,Gonzalez-DeWhitt PA,Hale JE,Li D,Qiu Y,Fraser CC,Yang DD,Heuer JG,Jaskunas SR,Eacho P

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that GH may modulate emotion, behavior, or stress response by its direct actions on the brain, and possible expression of the GH gene in the brain has been predicted. In this study we have investigated whether and where the GH gene is expressed in the brain and how it is regulated. Ribonuclease ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yoshizato H,Fujikawa T,Soya H,Tanaka M,Nakashima K

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of hypophysectomy and GH on blood pressure and renin secretion were studied. Within 2 weeks after removal of the pituitary gland of rats, mean arterial blood pressure declined 30%, and heart rate fell 50%. No significant effect of hypophysectomy on blood volume or hematocrit was noted. Within 2 h after the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Honeyman TW,Goodman HM,Fray JC

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing adiposity predisposes to the development of the metabolic syndrome, in part, through adipose tissue dysregulation and inflammation. In addition, offspring nutrient-restricted (NR) in utero can exhibit an increased risk of early-onset insulin resistance and obesity, although the mechanisms remain unclear. We...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sharkey D,Symonds ME,Budge H

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and its associated comorbidities are of major worldwide concern. It is now recognized that there are a number of metabolically distinct pathways of obesity development. The present paper investigates the effect of moderate daily exercise on the underlying mechanisms of one such pathway to obesity, through inte...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Miles JL,Huber K,Thompson NM,Davison M,Breier BH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to purify the thyroid receptor for TSH and to study interaction with the thyroid-stimulating antibody (TSAb) of graves' disease, we used both bovine and human thyroid glands. With either tissue, the 10,000 X g pellet of homogenized material was solubilized with 0.5% Triton N-101; excess Triton was remove...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Koizumi Y,Zakarija M,McKenzie JM

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that leptin secreted from adipose tissue is a mediator linking obesity and pancreatic islet hypertrophy, we examined the effects of leptin on proliferative and apoptotic responses in rat islet cells. Rat pancreatic islets were isolated and incubated with 0, 1, 5, or 75 nM leptin for 24 h under s...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Okuya S,Tanabe K,Tanizawa Y,Oka Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical localization of two estrogen receptor (ER) subtypes, ER beta and ER alpha, was performed in neonatal, early postnatal, immature, and adult rats to determine whether ER alpha and ER beta are differentially expressed in the ovary. ER beta and ER alpha were visualized using a polyclonal anti-ER beta a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sar M,Welsch F

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-associated changes in the reproductive hormones-the gonadal steroid hormones and the gonadotropins-have been identified as potential risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, levels of gonadotropins and estrogens are closely linked in vivo, and it has proven difficult to separate the effects of gonadotro...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Barron AM,Verdile G,Taddei K,Bates KA,Martins RN

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lactogen-dependent rat Nb2 lymphoma is a useful model to investigate PRL signaling pathways that lead to regulation of gene transcription. A primary mechanism coupled to PRL receptor (PRLR) activation in Nb2 cells involves phosphorylation by Jak-family tyrosine kinases of one or more signal transducers and activat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Borg KE,Zhang M,Hegge D,Stephen RL,Buckley DJ,Magnuson NS,Buckley AR

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic membrane receptors for cholecystokinin (CCK) in obese and nonobese Zucker rats were compared with the use of a biologically active [125I]iodo-CCK-8 radioprobe. Membrane homogenates from obese rats bound half the amount of radioligand in 2 h as did membranes from lean rats (specifically bound, 7.0% vs. 14.0%...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Praissman M,Izzo RS

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed and characterized a primary cell culture system to study the regulation of 17 alpha-hydroxylase cytochrome P450 (P45017 alpha) gene expression in bovine thecal cells. Conditions have been established for the dispersal and growth of thecal cells isolated from bovine follicles, which maintain the expre...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Demeter-Arlotto M,Rainey WE,Simpson ER

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major cause of infertility in normal and assisted reproduction cycles is failure of the endometrium to undergo appropriate changes during the secretory phase of the menstrual cycle as it acquires receptivity for an implanting blastocyst. Current dogma states that loss of epithelial polarity in the luminal epithelial...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Whitby S,Salamonsen LA,Evans J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of spironolactone, canrenone and canrenoate-K on adrenal cytochrome P450 (P450) and corticosteroid biosynthesis were examined by studying difference spectra, P450 reduction and corticoid hydroxylation in mitochondrial preparations isolated from zona fasciculata and zona glomerulosa of bovine adrenals and from ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cheng SC,Suzuki K,Sadee W,Harding BW

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mullerian inhibiting substance (MIS) is a 140-kilodalton homodimeric glycoprotein that causes regression of the Mullerian ducts in male embryos, and may also have a role in both males and females in the regulation of germ cell maturation. We examined the ontogeny of MIS messenger RNA (mRNA) in rat testes from midgesta...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lee MM,Cate RL,Donahoe PK,Waneck GL

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 diabetes is caused by autoimmune destruction of β-cells. Although immunotherapy can restore self-tolerance thereby halting continued immune-mediated β-cell loss, residual β-cell mass and function is often insufficient for normoglycemia. Using a growth factor to boost β-cell mass can potentially overcome this ba...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hyslop CM,Tsai S,Shrivastava V,Santamaria P,Huang C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin-regulated testicular RNA helicase (GRTH/Ddx25) is a posttranscriptional regulator of genes that are essential for spermatid elongation and completion of spermatogenesis. It also prevents Leydig cells (LCs) from gonadotropin overstimulation of androgen production. In transgenic (Tg) mice carrying deletions...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kavarthapu R,Tsai-Morris CH,Fukushima M,Pickel J,Dufau ML

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In mice, GH levels rise in response to short-term fasting or starvation (food restriction to 40% of ad libitum intake), similar to that which occurs in humans in response to fasting or anorexia. Recent studies using acyl-ghrelin knockout mice have suggested that the rise in GH during food restriction is essential to s...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gahete MD,Córdoba-Chacón J,Luque RM,Kineman RD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TSH is the most important biomarker in the interpretation of thyroid function in man. Its levels are determined by circulating thyroid hormone (TH) levels that feed back centrally to regulate the expression of the subunits that comprise TSH from the pituitary. The nuclear corepressor 1 (NCoR1), is a critical coregulat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Costa-e-Sousa RH,Astapova I,Ye F,Wondisford FE,Hollenberg AN

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell of origin of human null cell pituitary adenomas is disputed. Although these tumors, by definition, do not produce any of the anterior pituitary hormones in vivo, they have been shown to express gonadotropin subunit genes, release gonadotropin hormones in vitro, and express the gonadotroph-associated transcrip...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kumar TR,Graham KE,Asa SL,Low MJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the preovulatory and estradiol-progesterone-induced GnRH-LH surge, a subpopulation of GnRH neurons transiently expresses the transcription factor c-fos, which is a useful marker of cell activation. To further characterize this subpopulation of GnRH neurons, multiple immunohistochemical procedures were applied t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Eyigor O,Jennes L

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, a human CYP3A4-transgenic (Tg-CYP3A4) mouse line was reported to exhibit enhanced metabolism of midazolam by cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) expressed in small intestine. Here we show that expression of CYP3A4 and murine cyp3a and cyp2b was both age and sex dependent. CYP3A4 was expressed in the livers of mal...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yu AM,Fukamachi K,Krausz KW,Cheung C,Gonzalez FJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals shipped from commercial suppliers to laboratories are exposed to a wide variety of stressors. Female C57Bl6/J mice shipped during the peripubertal/adolescent period (6 wk old) display lower levels of female sexual behavior in response to estradiol and progesterone injections after ovariectomy when tested in ad...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Laroche J,Gasbarro L,Herman JP,Blaustein JD

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aromatase-deficient (ArKO) mice are deficient in estrogens due to deletion of the aromatase gene. We hypothesized that there may be changes in the cardiovascular system of ArKO mice because of evidence linking estrogens with improved cardiovascular outcomes and the induction of the glucocorticoid-metabolizing enzyme, ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Head GA,Obeyesekere VR,Jones ME,Simpson ER,Krozowski ZS

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:Although it is evident that androgens increase muscle mass and strength, little is known about the critical molecular targets of androgens in skeletal muscle. In rodents, the skeletal alpha-actin gene is a tissue-specific gene expressed only in the levator ani and other skeletal muscles but not in the prostate or prep...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hong MH,Sun H,Jin CH,Chapman M,Hu J,Chang W,Burnett K,Rosen J,Negro-Vilar A,Miner JN

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Potassium deficiency produced by feeding mice a low potassium diet caused a marked decrease in plasma and testicular testosterone concentrations and a concomitant fall in the weight of seminal vesicles and in renal ornithine decarboxylase activity. All of these parameters were rapidly restored when potassium supply wa...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sánchez-Capelo A,Castells MT,Cremades A,Peñafiel R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To further characterize the effect of TSH administration on thyroid iodothyronine monodeiodinating activity, we have evaluated the in vitro conversion of T4 to T3 (outer ring deiodination) and T3 to 3,3'-diiodothyronine (T2; inner ring deiodination) by mouse thyroid, liver, and kidney homogenates, comparing tissues fr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wu SY,Reggio R,Florsheim WH

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OT) is a hypothalamic nonapeptide that is synthesized as part of a larger precursor protein that also contains an approximately 10-kDa protein called neurophysin at its C-terminus. This precursor protein is trafficked through the regulated secretory pathway into secretory granules and then axonally transport...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhang BJ,Kusano K,Zerfas P,Iacangelo A,Young WS 3rd,Gainer H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00