Chronic endothelium-dependent regulation of arterial blood pressure by atrial natriuretic peptide: role of nitric oxide and endothelin-1.

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：:Puberty is a developmental period characterized by a broad range of physiologic changes necessary for the acquisition of adult sexual and reproductive maturity. These changes mirror complex modifications within the central nervous system, including within the hypothalamus. These modifications result in the maturation ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Naulé L,Maione L,Kaiser UB

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies indicate that magnesium, like calcium, stimulates the release of calcitonin (CT) from the thyroid gland. On the other hand, C-cell hyperplasia has been noted in magnesium-deficient dogs and rats. To explore further possible interrelationships between magnesium and CT, 21-day-old Sprague-Dawley male ra...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Anast CS,Gardner DW

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carboxyl-terminal fragments of PTH (C-PTH) appear to have biological properties different from those mediated by the amino-terminal portions of PTH and PTH-related peptide (PTHrP). To characterize a C-PTH receptor that may be involved in mediating these functions, we performed RRAs and affinity cross-linking studies w...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Inomata N,Akiyama M,Kubota N,Jüppner H

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic glucocorticoids (GCs), including dexamethasone (DEX), are powerful anti-inflammatory drugs. Long-term use of GCs, however, can result in metabolic side effects such as hyperglycemia, hepatosteatosis, and insulin resistance. The GC receptor (GR) and liver X receptors (LXRα and LXRβ) regulate overlapping genes...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Patel R,Magomedova L,Tsai R,Angers S,Orellana A,Cummins CL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GnRH is detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), but its source remains unidentified. Previous studies have harvested CSF for GnRH analysis from the median eminence region, but it is unknown whether GnRH in CSF is restricted to this region. If CSF-GnRH plays a physiological role, through volume transmission, to co...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Caraty A,Skinner DC

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A basic somatomedin preparation results in a 2-fold stimulation of incorporation of both [3H]leucine into protein and 35SO4 into glycosaminoglycans by cultured chick sternal chondrocytes. The stimulation is seen in the presence of 20 mM 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-xyloside alone but is not observable in the presence o...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kemp SF,Hintz RL

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GH is known to increase the formation of bone and hard tissues of the tooth (dentine, cementum, and enamel), as do bone morphogenetic proteins. GH receptors are expressed in these tissues and could mediate local growth responses. Here we report that both GH and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) are able to increase...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li H,Bartold PM,Zhang CZ,Clarkson RW,Young WG,Waters MJ

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypophyseotropic dopamine exerts a tonic inhibitory tone on pituitary lactotrophs by the activation of dopamine D2 receptors (D2R). Ablation of D2R through gene knock-out approaches results in hyperprolactinemia and prolactinomas. This phenotype is more severe and develops more rapidly in female mice. We tested whethe...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hentges ST,Low MJ

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity labeling with underivatized T3 was used to identify T3-binding proteins in the membrane of rat erythrocytes. UV irradiation of ghosts and peripheral protein-depleted membranes in the presence of [125I]T3 resulted in the covalent attachment of 125I to membrane proteins (analyzed by polyacrylamide gel elec...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Samson M,Osty J,Blondeau JP

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involvement of ionized cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+]i) and protein kinase-C (PKC) in GnRH-stimulated LH release was assessed by correlating measurable changes in [Ca2+]i and LH release in PKC-depleted and nondepleted gonadotropes. Primary cultures of anterior pituitary cells were loaded with the calcium-sensitive fluoresc...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Waters SB,Conn PM

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophils are important effector cells of the innate immune system. Thyroid hormone (TH) is thought to play an important role in their function. Intracellular TH levels are regulated by the deiodinating enzymes. The TH-inactivating type 3 deiodinase (D3) is expressed in infiltrating murine neutrophils, and D3 knocko...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： van der Spek AH,Bloise FF,Tigchelaar W,Dentice M,Salvatore D,van der Wel NN,Fliers E,Boelen A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occupancy of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) receptors of the ANPA type in human neuroblastoma NB-OK-1 cells elevates cGMP. In this study, ANP concentrations of 10 nM or more increased total K+ uptake. Data obtained in the presence of bumetanide and/or ouabain demonstrated that 1 microM ANP induced a primary stim...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Delporte C,Winand J,Poloczek P,Christophe J

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroid receptor activation in developing brain influences a variety of cellular processes that endure into adulthood, altering both behavior and physiology. We report that estrogen receptors can be activated in a ligand-independent manner within developing brain by membrane dopamine receptors. Neonatal treatment with...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Olesen KM,Jessen HM,Auger CJ,Auger AP

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunosympathectomy produced by treatment of newborn rats with antibodies to nerve growth factor (NGF) delays ovarian development and disrupts estrous cyclicity. While these alterations have been ascribed to loss of sympathetic neurons innervating the ovary, the treatment also causes partial loss of ovarian sensory in...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lara HE,McDonald JK,Ahmed CE,Ojeda SR

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a model of the changes in peripheral iodothyronine metabolism that occur during ontogeny, we have studied the metabolism of 125I-labeled T4 and several of its partially deiodinated derivatives by the liver of the chick embryo. Homogenates of livers obtained from chicks varying in embryonic age from 8 days to the ti...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Borges M,LaBourene J,Ingbar SH

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the interaction of TSH receptor (TSHR) autoantibodies with receptor protein; it is necessary first to express the receptor in the proper conformation including the formation of correct disulfide bridges. However, the reducing environment of the Escherichia coli (E. coli) cytoplasm prevents the generation of p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bobovnikova Y,Graves PN,Vlase H,Davies TF

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LPXRFamide (LPXRFa) peptides have been characterized for their ability to inhibit gonadotropin (GTH) release in birds and stimulate growth hormone (GH) release in frogs. However, their involvement in regulating the reproductive hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis in mammals and fish is inconclusive. To study the role o...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Biran J,Golan M,Mizrahi N,Ogawa S,Parhar IS,Levavi-Sivan B

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactating rats exhibit stable individual differences in pup licking/grooming (LG) over the first week postpartum. Such naturally occurring variations in maternal behavior are associated with differences in estrogen-inducible oxytocin receptors in the medial preoptic area (MPOA) of the hypothalamus. We compared levels ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Champagne FA,Weaver IC,Diorio J,Sharma S,Meaney MJ

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth hormone (GH) is the key hormone involved in the regulation of growth and metabolism, two functions that are highly modulated during infancy. GH secretion, controlled mainly by GH releasing hormone (GHRH), has a characteristic pattern during postnatal development that results in peaks of blood concentration at b...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gouty-Colomer LA,Méry PF,Storme E,Gavois E,Robinson IC,Guérineau NC,Mollard P,Desarménien MG

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY), a peptide synthesized in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, is implicated in the physiologic control of food intake and body weight. Because both genetic (e.g. in obese ob/ob mice) and acquired leptin deficiency (e.g. fasting in normal mice) increase hypothalamic NPY accumulation, and as leptin ad...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schwartz MW,Erickson JC,Baskin DG,Palmiter RD

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rat medullary thyroid carcinoma, which was previously shown to produce high levels of immunoreactive cholecystokinin (CCK), was used to establish a stable cell line. Transplantable tumors were subjected to four series of alternate in vitro and in vivo passages. Cells were prepared from the fourth series of tumors un...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Haun RS,Beinfeld MC,Roos BA,Dixon JE

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pancreatic polypeptide cell, the only mature endocrine cell in the fetal pig pancreas, produces equimolar amounts of two peptides, pancreatic polypeptide and pancreatic icosapeptide, from the same precursor. The amino acid sequence of pancreatic polypeptide is more homogeneous among species, whereas pancreatic ico...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Amaratunga A,Tuch BE,Han XG,Georges P,Dean SK,Scott H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local androgen synthesis in prostate cancer (PC) may contribute to the development of castration-resistant PC (CRPC), but pathways controlling intratumoral steroidogenic enzyme expression in PC are unknown. We investigated the effects of activin, a factor involved in the regulation of PC growth and steroidogenic enzym...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hofland J,van Weerden WM,Steenbergen J,Dits NF,Jenster G,de Jong FH

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proteinaceous secretion from phagocytizing polymorphonuclear leukocytes, termed "leukocytic endogenous mediator" (LEM), has been shown to have marked effects on hepatic amino acid transport and RNA and protein synthesis. A single injection of LEM results in a marked accumulation of labeled nonmetabolizable model ami...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wannemacher RW Jr,Pekarek RS,Thompson WL,Curnow RT,Beall FA,Zenser TV,DeRubertis FR,Beisel WR

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progesterone (P(4)) signaling is critical for pregnancy. We previously showed that immunopilin FK506 binding protein (FKBP)52 serves as a cochaperone to optimize progesterone receptor (PR) function in the uterus, and its deficiency leads to P(4) resistance in a pregnancy stage-specific and genetic background-dependent...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hirota Y,Burnum KE,Acar N,Rabinovich GA,Daikoku T,Dey SK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The estrogen-induced and -dependent Syrian hamster renal tumor is the most intensively studied model in estrogen carcinogenesis. Yet, it remains confounding that the kidney of this species behaves as an estrogen target tissue. As both reproductive and urinary systems arise from the same germinal ridge, we propose that...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li JJ,Weroha SJ,Davis MF,Tawfik O,Hou X,Li SA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the relationship between the concentrations of serum T3 and hepatic nuclear T3 receptor in a reversible nonthyroidal disease, we studied these parameters in rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes mellitus, control rats, and rats that were weight-matched to the diabetic rats by food restriction. Results...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Las MS,Surks MI

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human myometrium contains hCG/LH receptors. There are fewer of these receptors during labor compared to no labor at preterm or term deliveries. Exogenous hCG can directly inhibit oxytocin-stimulated human myometrial contractions. These findings suggest that hCG may directly maintain myometrial quiescence during pregna...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ambrus G,Rao CV

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several observations suggest that GH stimulates sebaceous gland growth and development. Therefore, we studied the effects of GH and insulin-like growth factors (IGFs), alone and with androgen, on sebaceous epithelial cell (sebocyte) growth and differentiation in vitro. The rat preputial cell culture model system was u...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Deplewski D,Rosenfield RL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00