Coculture with primary visceral rat adipocytes from control but not streptozotocin-induced diabetic animals increases glucose uptake in rat skeletal muscle cells: role of adiponectin.

abstract：:The inhibitor of apoptosis proteins (IAPs) constitutes a family of highly conserved apoptosis suppressor proteins that were originally identified in baculoviruses. Although IAP homologs have recently been demonstrated to suppress apoptosis in mammalian cells, their expression and role in human ovarian epithelial cance...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li J,Feng Q,Kim JM,Schneiderman D,Liston P,Li M,Vanderhyden B,Faught W,Fung MF,Senterman M,Korneluk RG,Tsang BK

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated granulosa cells and theca from proestrous hamsters alone and in recombination, were cultured in order to study steroidogenic capacity of this tissue. Cells from medium size antral follicles (100-300 mum diam.) and large preovulatory follicles (500 plus mum diam.) were used. Steroids were measured by radioimmu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Makris A,Ryan KJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if oxytocin (OT) is present in cynomolgus monkey corpus luteum, OT was measured by a specific and sensitive RIA in 13 corpora lutea, ovarian venous plasma on the ipsilateral side and peripheral venous plasma at different stages of the luteal phase. Serial dilution of acetic acid extract of the corpus lute...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Khan-Dawood FS,Marut EL,Dawood MY

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of synthetic atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) on adrenal steroidogenesis has been studied in primary culture of bovine adrenal cells. ANF-(8-33) produced a potent 40-70% inhibition of angiotensin II-, ACTH-, PGE1-, and forskolin-stimulated secretion of aldosterone production from zona glomerulosa cells with ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： De Léan A,Racz K,Gutkowska J,Nguyen TT,Cantin M,Genest J

更新日期：1984-10-01 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：:Estradiol-17beta (E2) is suspected to exert a role in the regulation of testicular activity. Using a nonmammalian vertebrate model (the frog, Rana esculenta), we have investigated whether c-fos activity is detectable in the testis during the annual sexual cycle and whether E2 exerts a regulatory role on spermatogenesi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cobellis G,Pierantoni R,Minucci S,Pernas-Alonso R,Meccariello R,Fasano S

更新日期：1999-07-01 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：:GH3 cells are a PRL-secreting adenoma cell line derived from pituitary lactotropes. These cells have been stably transfected with rat GnRH receptor complementary DNA to produce four cell lines: GGH(3)1', GGH(3)2', GGH(3)6', and GGH(3)12'. In response to either GnRH or Buserelin (a metabolically stable GnRH agonist), t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stanislaus D,Arora V,Awara WM,Conn PM

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), 1 X 10(-7) M, to cultured neonatal rat heart cells resulted in rapid increases in beating rate and cellular concentrations of cAMP. Calcitonin (1 X 10(-7) M), in contrast, had no significant effect on heart cell beating rate or cAMP content. CGRP-stimulated increases...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fisher RA,Robertson SM,Olson MS

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypoxic growth plate cartilage requires hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-mediated pathways to maintain chondrocyte survival and differentiation. HIF proteins are tightly regulated by prolyl hydroxylase domain-containing protein 2 (Phd2)-mediated proteosomal degradation. We conditionally disrupted the Phd2 gene in ch...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cheng S,Xing W,Pourteymoor S,Schulte J,Mohan S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) was measured by RIA in the hypophysial portal blood of rats after total hypophysectomy. The mean (+/- SE) VIP concentrations were 1332 +/- 171 pg/ml (range, 300-3868 pg/ml) under urethane anesthesia and 1735 +/- 707 pg/ml under pentobarbital anesthesia. The concentrations of VIP...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Shimatsu A,Kato Y,Matsushita N,Katakami H,Yanaihara N,Imura H

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat PTH molecule contains five sequence differences from either the bovine or the human hormone within the biologically active 1-34 region. A synthetic rat 1-34 peptide was tested for activity by in vitro activation of canine and rat renal adenylate cyclase and binding to canine renal membrane receptors. The mean ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Keutmann HT,Griscom AW,Nussbaum SR,Reiner BF,Goud AN,Potts JT Jr,Rosenblatt M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In teleosts, the pituitary contains a single glycoprotein gonadotropic hormone (GTH) composed of two dissimilar alpha- and beta-subunits. The European eel, Anguilla anguilla L, is sexually immature at the silver stage due to a deficiency in GTH synthesis and secretion. In previous studies we (S.D., YA.F.) have demonst...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Counis R,Dufour S,Ribot G,Quérat B,Fontaine YA,Jutisz M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered leptin action has been implicated in the pathophysiology of heart failure in obesity, a hallmark of which is extracellular matrix remodeling. Here, we characterize the direct influence of leptin on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity in primary adult rat cardiac fibroblasts and focus on elucidating the mol...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schram K,Ganguly R,No EK,Fang X,Thong FS,Sweeney G

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GnRH neurons are central regulators of reproduction and respond to factors affecting fertility, such as stress. Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is released during stress response. In brain slices from unstressed controls, CRH has opposite, estradiol-dependent effects on GnRH neuron firing depending on the CRH re...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Phumsatitpong C,De Guzman RM,Zuloaga DG,Moenter SM

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) was studied for its effect on renin release by rat renal cortical slices. ANF (rat) alone (10(-9)-10(-6) M) had no effect on basal renin release, but significantly (P less than 0.001) potentiated angiotensin II (AII) inhibition of renin secretion in doses as low as 10(-9) M. ANF also po...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Antonipillai I,Vogelsang J,Horton R

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated bone cells are often described according to the presence of PTH- and calcitonin (CT)-sensitive adenylate cyclase activities. Osteoblasts are thought to be cells with PTH-sensitive adenylate cyclase but without CT response, and osteoclasts are thought to be CT-sensitive cells. We have studied the adenylate cyc...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gutierrez GE,Mundy GR,Katz MS

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogenic changes in the somatotroph's responsiveness to TRH were examined in enzymatically dissociated rat pituitary cells in primary monolayer culture. Exposure to TRH (10(-8) M) caused a significant increase in GH release in cultured pituitary cells from rats ranging in age from -1 day (20 days of gestational a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Welsh JB,Cuttler L,Szabo M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed the "glucolipotoxicity" hypothesis in which elevated free fatty acids (FFAs) together with hyperglycemia are synergistic in causing islet beta-cell damage because high glucose inhibits fat oxidation and consequently lipid detoxification. The effects of 1-2 d culture of both rat INS 832/13 cells and hu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： El-Assaad W,Buteau J,Peyot ML,Nolan C,Roduit R,Hardy S,Joly E,Dbaibo G,Rosenberg L,Prentki M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We analyzed the nature of the thyroid hormone-binding proteins in bullfrog plasma using N-bromoacetyl-[125I]T3 as an affinity labeling probe. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under nondenaturing conditions of the bullfrog N-bromoacetyl-[125I]T3-labeled plasma proteins revealed two proteins with specific binding to T...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yamauchi K,Kasahara T,Hayashi H,Horiuchi R

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the structural and functional characteristics of insulin receptors from rat brain and liver from late gestation through adulthood as well as from cultured neuronal and glial cells from neonatal rats. Specific insulin binding was present on membrane preparations from brain and liver at all stages of developm...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lowe WL Jr,Boyd FT,Clarke DW,Raizada MK,Hart C,LeRoith D

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of these experiments was to determine if the powerful effect of sodium chloride concentration on angiotensin II- and potassium-stimulated aldosterone secretion by isolated perfused adrenal glands is mediated by the sodium or chloride ion or by the obligatory change in osmolality. We used isolated Ringer's ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schneider EG,Radke KJ,Ulderich DA,Taylor RE Jr

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) and interleukin-1 beta (IL-1) are secreted by activated monocytes and other immune cells. Since IL-1 has been shown to elevate rat plasma ACTH and both of these cytokines induce similar acute-phase responses, the present studies of TNF were undertaken to characterize the ACTH response...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sharp BM,Matta SG,Peterson PK,Newton R,Chao C,Mcallen K

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals maintained on retinol (vitamin A-alcohol)-deficient diets exhibit testicular atrophy and loss of the germinal epithelium. Retinoic acid (vitamin A-acid), when fed to retinol-deficient animals, does not prevent these lesions and had thus been thought not to play a role in the tests. Serum testosterone (T) level...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Appling DR,Chytil F

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kallikreins are a multigene subfamily of serine proteases that may have a role in processing precursors of polypeptide hormones and growth factors. The epidermal growth factor (EGF) immunoreactivity in mouse milk is derived from the membrane-bound EGF precursor located on the lumenal border of the alveolar cells in th...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Jahnke GD,Chao J,Walker MP,Diaugustine RP

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone and retinoic acid (RA) are essential for normal neural development in vivo, yet all in vitro differentiation strategies of embryonic stem (ES) cells use only RA. We developed a novel differentiation strategy of mouse ES cells using T(3). A dominant-negative knock-in point mutation (P398H) was introduce...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Liu YY,Tachiki KH,Brent GA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A relationship between the actions of TSH and IGF-1 was first recognized several decades ago. The close physical and functional associations between their respective receptors (TSHR and IGF-1R) has been described more recently in thyroid epithelium and human orbital fibroblasts as has the noncanonical behavior of IGF-...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Atkins SJ,Lentz SI,Fernando R,Smith TJ

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：: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：:Rat melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) is a homolog of the peptide first isolated from salmon pituitary glands which produces melanosome aggregation within melanophores of teleost fish as well as interacting with the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. We have previously characterized the rat and human MCH counterparts as i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Parkes D,Vale W

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00