LGD-5552, an antiinflammatory glucocorticoid receptor ligand with reduced side effects, in vivo.

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) peptide concentrations in the arcuate nucleus have recently been shown to be modulated by gonadal steroids in the male rat. The present study was designed to determine whether NPY messenger RNA (mRNA)-synthesizing cells in the arcuate nucleus (Arc) of the male rat are regulated by testosterone (T)...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Urban JH,Bauer-Dantoin AC,Levine JE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GT1 GnRH cell lines express all three subunits of the cyclic nucleotide-gated (CNG) channels (CNG2, 4.3 and 5) expressed in olfactory neurons. We investigated using in situ hybridization and double immunofluorescence whether endogenous GnRH neurons in therat also express CNG channel subunits. Sections from male an...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： El-Majdoubi M,Weiner RI

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One day of fasting suppresses pulsatile LH secretion in adult male rhesus monkeys. In the present study, we determined whether the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is activated by 1 day of fasting, and if there is any evidence that an increase in the activity of the HPA axis causes the fasting-induced suppres...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Helmreich DL,Mattern LG,Cameron JL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of alpha- and beta-subunits of human TSH (hTSH) were studied by investigating the inhibitory effects of monoclonal antibodies on the biological activity of hTSH. Four monoclonal antibodies directed toward different epitopes on the beta-subunit (hTSH beta) inhibited completely the receptor binding of hTSH to ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Endo Y,Tetsumoto T,Nagasaki H,Kashiwai T,Tamaki H,Amino N,Miyai K

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently identified gonadotropes as target cells for ATP action via ATP receptors of the P2U subtype. The present studies have used gonadotrope-derived alpha T3-1 cells to examine the possible signaling mechanisms subserving ATP action in gonadotropes. Addition of ATP produced a biphasic intracellular Ca2+ (Ca...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chen ZP,Kratzmeier M,Poch A,Xu S,McArdle CA,Levy A,Mukhopadhyay AK,Lightman SL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased type 1 iodothyronine deiodinase expression in hyperthyroid patients increases the fraction of plasma T3 generated from T4 by the propylthiouracil-sensitive pathway. In this study, we extend our analysis of the thyroid hormone response elements (TREs) in the 5' flanking region of the human dio1 gene. The ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhang CY,Kim S,Harney JW,Larsen PR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was conducted to determine the role of the thyroid gland in three neuroendocrine responses to photoperiod; secretion of melatonin, PRL, and LH. Ewes were thyroidectomized (THX) in midsummer or left thyroid intact, and both groups were moved indoors to artificial short days (8 h of light, 16 h of darkness) for ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dahl GE,Evans NP,Moenter SM,Karsch FJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgens act to stimulate spermatogenesis through androgen receptors (ARs) on the Sertoli cells and peritubular myoid cells. Specific ablation of the AR in either cell type will cause a severe disruption of spermatogenesis. To determine whether androgens can stimulate spermatogenesis through direct action on the peri...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： O'Shaughnessy PJ,Verhoeven G,De Gendt K,Monteiro A,Abel MH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The classical model for the mechanism of action of steroids holds that unbound receptors for steroids reside exclusively in the cytoplasmic compartment and that they undergo translocation to the nucleus when bound to steroids in a process which is temperature sensitive. We have in the past proposed that unbound recept...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sheridan PJ,Buchanan JM,Anselmo VC,Martin PM

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis and accumulation of prostatein, a major secretory protein of the rat ventral prostate, was examined in organ culture conditions. For the quantitation of this protein in the medium, a sensitive enzyme immunoassay was developed. The rat ventral prostate could be maintained in organ culture in defined mediu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Martikainen P,Härkönen P,Vanhala T,Mäkelä S,Viljanen M,Suominen J

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mature 31- and 34-kDa inhibin A and B negatively regulate the release of FSH from the anterior pituitary; however, a direct comparison of these hormones in vivo has not been undertaken. The bioactivities of highly purified preparations of recombinant human 31-kDa inhibin A and B were determined in rat pituitary cells ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Makanji Y,Temple-Smith PD,Walton KL,Harrison CA,Robertson DM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear translocation of PRL is demonstrated at the immunofluorescence and electron microscopic (EM) levels in interleukin-2 (IL2)-stimulated cloned T-cells and concanavalin A-stimulated splenocytes. This translocation occurs 2-10 h after IL2 stimulation, and is reversed by the addition of anti-PRL antiserum into ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Clevenger CV,Sillman AL,Prystowsky MB

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To ascertain if reductions in fetal plasma cortisol cause increases in fetal plasma ACTH, we treated pregnant ewes or their fetuses with aminoglutethimide (10 mg/kg BW) and metyrapone (20 mg/kg BW) and measured the hormonal responses with RIAs. When given to fetuses (n = 9) at 0.90 +/- 0.01 gestation (term-145 days), ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rose JC,Turner CS,Ray D,Rawashdeh N

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation examined the effects of repeated injections of LH on ovarian function in the immature sheep approximately 12 weeks before the time of the first expected spontaneous ovulation. The frequency of endogenous LH pulses during the pretreatment period was approximately one pulse each 3 h. The first experim...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Foster DL,Ryan KD,Papkoff H

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that aldosterone plus salt loading cause cardiac hypertrophy in rats in vivo, and that in vitro, both aldosterone and glucose stimulate fibroblast growth. The present studies examined the effects of adrenal steroids via mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors (MR and GR) on [3H]leuci...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sato A,Funder JW

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that mice missing gp130, the common receptor subunit for many cytokines, die at or before birth with multiple skeletal abnormalities. Furthermore, interactions between PTH and gp130 signaling have suggested that gp130 signaling might influence calcium homeostasis. We, therefore, examined th...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Shin HI,Divieti P,Sims NA,Kobayashi T,Miao D,Karaplis AC,Baron R,Bringhurst R,Kronenberg HM

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to elucidate the possible molecular mechanisms involved in the antispermatogenic activity of l-CDB-4022, an indenopyridine. In this study 45-d-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with a single oral dose of l-CDB-4022 (2.5 mg/kg) or vehicle, and blood and testes were collected at v...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Koduri S,Hild SA,Pessaint L,Reel JR,Attardi BJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic stellate cells (HSC) play a pivotal role in hepatic tissue repair and fibrogenesis. IGF-I has been considered a mitogenic signal for activation and proliferation of HSC in vitro. In the present study IGF-I and IGF-binding protein (IGFBP) gene expression was studied in a model of acute liver injury induced by a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Scharf JG,Dombrowski F,Novosyadlyy R,Eisenbach C,Demori I,Kübler B,Braulke T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ALP1 [aci-reductone dioxygenase (ARD)-like protein 1] gene was identified in a comprehensive cDNA subtraction aimed at identifying genes regulated by androgens in the rat ventral prostate. ALP1 is homologous to the ARD/ARD' that were discovered in Klebsiella pneumoniae as enzymes that have the same polypeptide seq...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Oram S,Jiang F,Cai X,Haleem R,Dincer Z,Wang Z

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen deficiency causes bone loss by increasing the number of bone-resorbing osteoclasts. Selective p38α MAPK inhibitors prevent bone-wasting effects of estrogen withdrawal but implicated mechanisms remain to be identified. Here, we show that inactivation of the p38α-encoding gene in osteoblast lineage cells with t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Thouverey C,Caverzasio J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) is produced in multiple tissues and is believed to exert its action in a paracrine or autocrine fashion. We have investigated the GH dependency of tissue IGF-I gene expression in rats harboring implanted somatomammotropic tumors. Circulating GH and radioimmunoassayable IGF-I levels...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fagin JA,Brown A,Melmed S

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies using twins and inbred strains of mice reveal evidence for genetic mechanisms contributing to variation in circulating levels of IGF-I, IGF-II, and IGF binding protein (IGFBP)-3. To examine the hypothesis that serum IGFBP-5 levels have a strong heritable component, we intercrossed two inbred strains of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mohan S,Masinde G,Li X,Baylink DJ

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:The mechanisms underlying the glucose dependence of arginine vasopressin (AVP)-stimulated insulin secretion were examined in a hamster insulin-secreting cell line (HIT cells). At 1.67 mM glucose, 100 nM AVP stimulated biphasic changes in free cytosolic Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) and insulin secretion. The initial spike of [Ca2+]i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lu M,Soltoff SP,Yaney GC,Boyd AE 3rd

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report for the first time the expression of estrogen receptor-related receptor (ERR)-alpha in fetal and adult rat chondrocytes in growth plate and articular cartilage and the rat chondrogenic cell line C5.18 cells in vitro. ERRalpha mRNA and protein were expressed from proliferating chondrocyte to mature chondrocyt...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bonnelye E,Zirngibl RA,Jurdic P,Aubin JE

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remodeling of maternal spiral arteries during pregnancy requires a subpopulation of extravillous cytotrophoblasts (EVTs) to differentiate into endovascular EVTs. Activin A, which is abundantly expressed at the maternal-fetal interface, has been shown to promote trophoblast invasion, but its role in endovascular differ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li Y,Zhu H,Klausen C,Peng B,Leung PC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse kidney and urinary glycosphingolipids from developing C57BL/6J and adults of several other inbred strains were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatographic techniques. Glycosphingolipids from male and female C57BL/6J kidneys were similar until the fifth week of age. Galactosylceramide containing nonhydrox...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： McCluer RH,Deutsch CK,Gross SK

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclast precursors reach sites of osteoclast formation and remodelling via the vasculature and are therefore destined to encounter endothelium before migrating to the bone surface. Here we investigated the hypothesis that endothelium may be involved in the regulation of osteoclast precursor recruitment to sites of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： McGowan NW,Walker EJ,Macpherson H,Ralston SH,Helfrich MH

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T3 stimulates in vitro GH secretion, whereas somatomedins have been shown to suppress GH. We, therefore, tested the effects of a recombinant human insulin-like growth factor analog (IGF-I; Thr 59) on T3-induced GH secretion. Pituitary monolayer cultures were derived from 4- to 7-week surgically thyroidectomized male r...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Melmed S,Yamashita S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF alpha), a product of activated monocytes, induces tissue wasting in certain solid tumors in vivo and in in vitro model systems. Recent studies indicate that TNF alpha also regulates cell replication and expression of differentiated function in a variety of nonneoplastic cell systems. S...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Centrella M,McCarthy TL,Canalis E

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00