Upstream stimulatory factor regulates constitutive expression and hormonal suppression of the 90K (Mac-2BP) protein.

abstract：:The interaction of alloxan and cyclic AMP on glucose-induced insulin secretion was studied with the use of isolated rat islet perifusion. Simultaneous perifusion with cyclic AMP and alloxan did not protect the islets against the effect of alloxan. However, addition of dibutyryl cyclic AMP to the alloxan solution produ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tomita T,Scarpelli DG

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physicochemical and immunological properties of androgen receptors from kidney and brain of testicular-feminized (Tfm) mutant mice and wild-type mice were compared. Analysis by gel filtration and sucrose density gradients revealed that the mol wt of the mutant receptor was 66K (38A; 3.8S) which was significantly s...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Young CY,Johnson MP,Prescott JL,Tindall DJ

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic enzymatic activities capable of degrading LHRH may play a physiological role in the neuroendocrine control of LHRH. There is increasing evidence, however, that these enzymes are not peptide specific. The present study in the ewe analyzed the possibility that the specificity of LHRH-degrading activity (LHR...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Advis JP,Kuljis RO,Dey G

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsatile release of GnRH-1 is critical to stimulate gonadotropes of the anterior pituitary. This secretory pattern seems to be inherent to GnRH-1 neurons, however, the mechanisms underlying such episodical release remain unknown. In monkey nasal explants, the GnRH-1 population exhibits synchronized calcium events wit...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Constantin S,Caraty A,Wray S,Duittoz AH

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ovarian steroids act on unidentified neurons to trigger preovulatory secretion of GnRH. In the rat, important steroid target cells reside in the anterior medial preoptic nucleus (AMPN), a sexually dimorphic structure essential for stimulatory effects of ovarian steroids on LH secretion. The AMPN contains neurotensin (...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Alexander MJ,Dobner PR,Miller MA,Bullock BP,Dorsa DM,Leeman SE

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of an estradiol-chemical delivery system (E2-CDS) for the brain vs. estradiol benzoate (E2-BNZ) in suppressing serum testosterone (T) and weights of the ventral prostate and seminal vesicle in male rats. Also, the role of serum T in the weight reduction of andr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Anderson WR,Rahimy MH,Brewster ME,Bodor N,Simpkins JW

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depletion of hypothalamic norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine by administration of diethyldithiocarbamate abolished the stimulatory effects of intraventricular (IVT) angiotensin II (AII) on LH release in ovariectomized rats pretreated with estradiol and progesterone. The increase in blood LH produced by IVT NE or iv L...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Steele MK,Ganong WF

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of cholesterol sulfate (5-cholesten-3 beta-ol sodium sulfate) and cholesterol to pregnenolone sulfate and pregnenolone, respectively, in human fetal adrenal mitochondria has been investigated. Cholesterol sulfate (50 microM) was converted efficiently to pregnenolone sulfate (5-pregnen-3 beta-ol-20-one s...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mason JI,Hemsell PG

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male rats of five different strains (Simonsen albino, Wistar, Long-Evans, Holtzman Sprague-Dawley, and Charles River Sprague-Dawley) were tested for their response to the U.S. Biochemical Corp. Remington low iodine diet containing 15-18 microgram I/kg. Measurements made after the diet had been fed for 28-30 days indic...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Okamura K,Taurog A,Krulich L

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 28,000 mol wt vitamin D-dependent calcium-binding protein (CaBP), first isolated from avian intestine, has recently been shown to exist in kidney and other tissues. To study the mechanism regulating the production of renal CaBP, we used primary cultures of chick kidney cells as an in vitro model. Renal cortical tubu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Craviso GL,Garrett KP,Clemens TL

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine epithelial cells (UEC) isolated from 6-week-old CF-1 mice were immortalized using retroviral-mediated transfection of SV40 large T-antigen. One line, WEG-1, retained epithelial morphology and reacted with antibodies to cytokeratins 18, 19, laminin, fibronectin, and beta-catenin. In addition, WEG-1 cells displa...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wegner CC,Cherington V,Clemens JW,Jacobs AL,Julian J,Surveyor GA,Bell EC,Carson DD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we demonstrated that estradiol (E(2)) modulates cross-talk between protein tyrosine kinases and norepinephrine (NE) receptor signaling in the hypothalamus (HYP) and preoptic area (POA), brain areas that govern female reproductive function. We are now investigating the identity of protein tyrosine kinase(s) t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Quesada A,Etgen AM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin, a circulating 16-kDa protein secreted by adipocytes, decreases body weight by reducing food intake and enhancing energy utilization. Leptin receptors that share homology to the glycoprotein gp130 have been recently cloned. In addition, differentially spliced leptin receptor messenger RNAs have been identified....

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Liu C,Liu XJ,Barry G,Ling N,Maki RA,De Souza EB

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pregnane X receptors (PXRs) and the constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) were initially isolated as nuclear receptors regulating xenobiotic metabolism and elimination, alleviating chemical insults. However, recent works suggest that these xenoreceptors play an endobiotic role in modulating hepatic lipid metaboli...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Breuker C,Moreau A,Lakhal L,Tamasi V,Parmentier Y,Meyer U,Maurel P,Lumbroso S,Vilarem MJ,Pascussi JM

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The observation that angiotensin III is present in the circulation of the rat in amounts similar to those of angiotensin II has led to the notion that it may, in part, be formed by the action of converting enzyme on des-Asp-angiotensin I without the prior formation of angiotensin II. This possibility was studied in co...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Garcia Del Rio C,Smellie WS,Morton JJ

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free system was used to characterize the binding reaction between the progesterone receptor and nuclear acceptor sites prepared from rat placenta. Two forms of receptor-acceptor complex were examined. One was extracted from nuclei by exposure to 0.6 M KCl; the other type was resistant to salt extraction. Kineti...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ogle TF

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the mechanism for the prolonged residence time of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) in blood. Several lines of evidence led us to propose that skeletal muscle could function as the site of an extravascular pool of 25OHD. In vitro studies investigated the capacity of differentiated C2 murine muscle cell...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Abboud M,Puglisi DA,Davies BN,Rybchyn M,Whitehead NP,Brock KE,Cole L,Gordon-Thomson C,Fraser DR,Mason RS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocator protein (TSPO) is a mitochondrial outer membrane protein of unknown function with high physiological expression in steroidogenic cells. Using TSPO gene-deleted mice, we recently demonstrated that TSPO function is not essential for steroidogenesis. The first link between TSPO and steroidogenesis was establ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tu LN,Zhao AH,Stocco DM,Selvaraj V

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PRL and placental lactogen (PL) play key roles in maintaining the rodent corpus luteum through pregnancy. Suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS) have been shown to decrease cell sensitivity to cytokines, including PRL, and so here we have addressed the issue of whether luteolysis induced by prostaglandin F(2alpha) (...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Curlewis JD,Tam SP,Lau P,Kusters DH,Barclay JL,Anderson ST,Waters MJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is an aggressive cancer with a 5-year survival rate <35%. Mortality remains high due to lack of targeted therapies. Using bioinformatic analyses, we identified maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase (MELK) as 4.1-fold overexpressed in ACC compared with normal adrenal samples. High MELK...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kiseljak-Vassiliades K,Zhang Y,Kar A,Razzaghi R,Xu M,Gowan K,Raeburn CD,Albuja-Cruz M,Jones KL,Somerset H,Fishbein L,Leong S,Wierman ME

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of FSH biosynthesis requires ongoing exposure to pulsatile GnRH. Recent data demonstrate that activin also stimulates FSH biosynthesis. We used a perifused pituitary system to examine regulation of FSH beta mRNA levels by pulsatile GnRH and activin. Hourly pulses of 10 nM GnRH increased FSH beta mRNA level...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Weiss J,Harris PE,Halvorson LM,Crowley WF Jr,Jameson JL

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of FRTL-5 thyroid cells to ATP (1 microM to 1 mM) resulted in the stimulation of I- efflux in association with the induction of inositol trisphosphate production and intracellular Ca2+ mobilization. Nonhydrolyzable ATP derivatives, ADP and GTP, were also as effective in magnitude as ATP, whereas neither AMP n...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Okajima F,Sho K,Kondo Y

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing international interest in how environmental conditions experienced during development can shape adult phenotypes and the extent to which such induced changes are adaptive. One physiological system that links an individual to changes in environmental circumstances during development is the hypothalamic...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Spencer KA,Evans NP,Monaghan P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The localization of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-like immunoreactivity in the adrenal gland of the frog, Rana ridibunda, was examined by the indirect immunofluorescence technique. Using an antiserum directed against rat alpha-CGRP, the presence of a network of positive fibers was observed in the adrenal pare...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Esneu M,Delarue C,Remy-Jouet I,Manzardo E,Fasolo A,Fournier A,Saint-Pierre S,Conlon JM,Vaudry H

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of rat and mouse monoclonal antibodies to the human progesterone receptor (PR) has recently been produced. These antibodies were used for the immunocytochemical identification of PR in several mammalian species including humans. The specificity of the monoclonal antibodies for PR was confirmed by using compet...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Press MF,Greene GL

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxyntomodulin is derived from proglucagon processing in the intestine and the central nervous system. To date, no role in the central nervous system has been demonstrated. We report here that oxyntomodulin inhibits refeeding when injected intracerebroventricularly and into the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of 2...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dakin CL,Gunn I,Small CJ,Edwards CM,Hay DL,Smith DM,Ghatei MA,Bloom SR

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent observations suggest a role for interleukin-1 (IL-1), a polypeptide product of macrophage/monocytic cells, in the immune-mediated destruction of pancreatic islet beta-cells observed in type 1 diabetes. In this study, we investigated the effects of IL-1 on both alpha- and beta-cell secretory functions in rat isl...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rabinovitch A,Pukel C,Baquerizo H

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens bind to two nuclear estrogen receptor (ER) subtypes, ERα and ERβ, which are expressed in differing amounts in various tissues. The endogenous estrogen, 17β-estradiol (E2), binds to both subtypes with nearly equal affinity and is the prototypical agonist. Selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) may bin...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Starkey NJE,Li Y,Drenkhahn-Weinaug SK,Liu J,Lubahn DB

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of these experiments was to test the hypothesis that estrogen has an anabolic effect on cancellous bone formation in long bones of growing rats. In the present studies, estrogen decreased measurements related to cancellous bone formation, including osteoblast number, fluorochrome-labeled bone perimeter, an...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Westerlind KC,Wakley GK,Evans GL,Turner RT

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Asparaginase (ASNase), a drug widely used in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has been reported to decrease serum T4-binding globulin (TBG) levels, while results of serum albumin determinations were conflicting. This effect in vivo has been attributed to depressed liver protein synthesis, but this hypo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bartalena L,Martino E,Antonelli A,Pacchiarotti A,Robbins J,Pinchera A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00