Development of a long-acting erythropoietin by fusing the carboxyl-terminal peptide of human chorionic gonadotropin beta-subunit to the coding sequence of human erythropoietin.

abstract：:Oxytocin (OT) receptors (OTRs) mediate reproductive functions, including the initiation of labor and milk ejection. OTR messenger RNA levels are highly regulated, reaching the greatest concentration in the uterus at the end of gestation, and in the mammary gland during lactation. Factors directly effecting changes in ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hoare S,Copland JA,Wood TG,Jeng YJ,Izban MG,Soloff MS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytokine interleukin-1 (IL-1) has numerous actions in brain, including pronounced neuroendocrine effects. Recent radioligand binding studies have identified high-affinity binding sites for 125I-recombinant human IL-1 alpha in the hippocampus with characteristics similar to those of IL-1 receptors in immune cells. ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cunningham ET Jr,Wada E,Carter DB,Tracey DE,Battey JF,De Souza EB

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：:This study tested the hypothesis that in the female sheep, a short day (SD) breeder, puberty can occur normally in the absence of ambient short days. More specifically, the photoperiod cue timing the transition into adulthood is exposure to and then termination of a long day melatonin rhythm. Control lambs born in the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Foster DL,Ebling FJ,Claypool LE,Woodfill CJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 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：:We investigated the role of peritubular cell-Sertoli cell interactions in the control of Sertoli cell function by androgens. Decreased FSH-inducible aromatase activity and increased secretion of androgen-binding protein (ABP) were used as parameters of androgen action on Sertoli cells. It is demonstrated that cocultur...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Verhoeven G,Cailleau J

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood obesity increases the risk of adult obesity and diabetes, suggesting that early overnutrition permanently programs altered energy and glucose homeostasis. In the present studies, we used a mouse model to investigate whether early overnutrition increases susceptibility to obesity and insulin resistance in res...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Glavas MM,Kirigiti MA,Xiao XQ,Enriori PJ,Fisher SK,Evans AE,Grayson BE,Cowley MA,Smith MS,Grove KL

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that interleukin-1alpha (IL-1alpha)-induced activation of protein kinase C (PKC) via phosphatidylcholine-specific phospholipase C (PC-PLC) limits IL-6 synthesis induced by IL-1alpha itself in osteoblast-like MC3T3-E1 cells. In the present study, we further investigated the mechanism behind IL-1a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Miwa M,Kozawa O,Tokuda H,Uematsu T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a map describing the antigenic determinants (epitopes) of the human CG (hCG) molecule. A panel of monoclonal antibodies to hCG, previously characterized by us was incorporated into two-site binding assays to probe hCG by a 21 X 11 matrix of 231 pairs of MCA. Nine different reaction patterns of reciprocal ho...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schwarz S,Berger P,Wick G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now general agreement that neurokinin B (NKB) acts via neurokinin-3-receptor (NK3R) to stimulate secretion of GnRH and LH in several species, including rats, mice, sheep, and humans. However, the roles of two other tachykinins, substance P (SP) and neurokinin A, which act primarily via NK1R and NK2R, respecti...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fergani C,Mazzella L,Coolen LM,McCosh RB,Hardy SL,Newcomb N,Grachev P,Lehman MN,Goodman RL

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was initiated to investigate the significance of uterine cell death and proliferation during the estrous cycle and early pregnancy and their correlation with sex steroids in hamsters where blastocyst implantation occurs in only progesterone-primed uteri. The results obtained in hamsters were also compared w...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhang Q,Paria BC

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decidual/trophoblast PRL-related protein (d/tPRP) is a member of the PRL gene family and is dually expressed in uterine and placental tissues in a highly coordinated pattern during pregnancy. In the present study, we describe the isolation and characterization of the d/tPRP gene. A lambda DASH II Wistar-Kyoto rat geno...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Orwig KE,Dai G,Rasmussen CA,Soares MJ

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin has been shown to activate multiple signaling molecules in cultured cells, including Janus kinase-2, STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins, and mitogen-activated protein kinase, and to stimulate the DNA-binding activity of STAT3 in mouse hypothalamus. In this study, the activation of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： McCowen KC,Chow JC,Smith RJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose stimulation of pancreatic beta-cells triggers electrical activity (slow waves of membrane potential with superimposed spikes) that is best monitored with intracellular microelectrodes. Closure of ATP-sensitive K+ channels underlies the depolarization to the threshold potential and participates in the increase ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Henquin JC

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 2 (11 beta-HSD2) protects mineralocorticoid receptors from high circulating levels of glucocorticoids and cDNAs for 11 beta-HSD2 from human and sheep have been recently cloned. We have isolated the gene for mouse 11 beta-HSD2, which spans 7 kilobases and is composed of 5 exons. In ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cole TJ

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological actions of natriuretic peptide (NP) are determined by the condition of the receptor as well as that of the hormone. Although we previously demonstrated in hypertensive rats the up-regulation of NP-A receptor that mediates various biological actions of NPs, the pathophysiologic significance of NP-C receptor,...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yoshimoto T,Naruse M,Naruse K,Shionoya K,Tanaka M,Tanabe A,Hagiwara H,Hirose S,Muraki T,Demura H

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:Mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), highly expressed in the hippocampus, binds corticosteroid hormones and coordinately participates, with the glucocorticoid receptor, to the control of stress responses, memorization, and behavior. To investigate the impact of MR in neuronal survival, we generated murine embryonic stem (...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Munier M,Law F,Meduri G,Le Menuet D,Lombès M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to test the hypothesis that systemic immune challenge with endotoxin inhibits the reproductive axis centrally by suppressing GnRH pulsatile release into hypophyseal portal blood. Using alert, normally behaving, ovariectomized ewes, we sampled hypophyseal portal blood at 10-min intervals beginni...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Battaglia DF,Bowen JM,Krasa HB,Thrun LA,Viguié C,Karsch FJ

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged stimulation of cells by beta-adrenergic receptor agonists may lead to diminished responsiveness of the cells to subsequent activation by catecholamines. This phenomenon has been termed desensitization; the mechanism(s) for desensitization may involve an apparent loss in the number of beta-adrenergic receptor...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tsujimoto G,Manger WM,Hoffman BB

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small amounts of TRH are present in the thyroid, and TRH has been shown in several studies to have a moderate direct inhibitory effect on TSH-stimulated thyroid hormone secretion. In a recent publication, however, data were presented to demonstrate that very low doses of TRH given in short pulses induce immediate incr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Iversen E,Laurberg P

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a major site of nonshivering thermogenesis in mammals. Rodent studies indicated that BAT thermogenic activity may protect against obesity. Recent findings using novel radiodiagnosis procedures revealed unanticipated high activity of BAT in adult humans. Moreover, complex processes of cell...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Giralt M,Villarroya F

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have analyzed the factors responsible for the circadian variation in rat hepatic mRNA-S14. Regulation of this sequence, which is found in lipogenic tissues and encodes a protein (S14) believed to be associated with fatty acid synthesis, is an excellent model of the interaction of thyroid hormone and dietary factors...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kinlaw WB,Fish LH,Schwartz HL,Oppenheimer JH

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During in vitro maturation of porcine cumulus cell-oocyte complexes and in vitro luteinization of porcine granulosa cells, FSH induces the expression of the protease TNFα-converting enzyme/A disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain 17 (TACE/ADAM17) and the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like factors, which activate the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yamashita Y,Okamoto M,Ikeda M,Okamoto A,Sakai M,Gunji Y,Nishimura R,Hishinuma M,Shimada M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, the role of pancreatic hormones in pancreatic islet growth and differentiation is poorly understood. To address this issue, we examined mice with a disruption in the gene encoding prohormone convertase 2 (PC2). These mice are unable to process proglucagon, prosomatostatin, and other neuroendocrine precursors ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Vincent M,Guz Y,Rozenberg M,Webb G,Furuta M,Steiner D,Teitelman G

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A midregion fragment of PTH-related protein (PTHrP), which is intensively conserved across species, has been identified as a secretory product of several different cell types, including keratinocytes and squamous carcinomas. As recent data suggest that a midregion PTHrP fragment may be biologically active, we hypothes...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Orloff JJ,Ganz MB,Nathanson MH,Moyer MS,Kats Y,Mitnick M,Behal A,Gasalla-Herraiz J,Isales CM

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently disclosed sustained episodes of LH release (minisurges) during the afternoons of the juvenile-peripubertal transition period in the female rat. To determine if these LH minisurges are gonad independent, i.e. develop in the absence of the ovaries, animals were ovariectomized when neonates, and the mode...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Urbanski HF,Ojeda SR

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maternal plasma concentrations of GH and PRL increase dramatically upon the initiation of lactation in the rat. In light of the fact that these two hormones have evolved from one common precursor, we sought to determine if the neuroendocrine mechanisms regulating their concomitant increase during lactation are com...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wehrenberg WB,Gaillard RC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of the peripheral administration of 17 beta-estradiol (E2), estrone (E1), and the catecholestrogens, 2-hydroxyestradiol (2-OHE2) and 2-hydroxyestrone, (2-OHE1), on anterior pituitary gland PRL release in the prepuberal rat. Steroids in oil were injected sc into 25-day-old female and 35- to ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rodriguez-Sierra JF,Blake CA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steady state levels of the prodynorphin-derived opioid peptides, dynorphin A, dynorphin B, and alpha-neo-endorphin, have been extensively studied in the magnocellular/posterior pituitary system of the rat. To determine whether the rat system serves as a general model for prodynorphin processing in the mammalian po...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dores RM,Akil H

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00