Mechanisms of impaired growth hormone secretion in genetically obese Zucker rats: roles of growth hormone-releasing factor and somatostatin.

abstract：:This study aimed to delineate the hypothalamic and/or pituitary actions of testosterone and its primary metabolites 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone and estradiol (E) in adult castrated rams (wethers) during the breeding season. In Exp 1, wethers were treated for a week with twice daily injections (im) of peanut oil, 8, 16...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tilbrook AJ,de Kretser DM,Cummins JT,Clarke IJ

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of secretagogue(s) from mouse decidual tissue on the release of mouse placental lactogen-II (mPL-II) were studied. Decidual tissue was obtained from 10- and 11-day-pregnant mice. The tissue was homogenized, extracted, and the tissue extract was made 50% saturated with ammonium sulfate. Both the precipitate...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Thordarson G,Southard JN,Talamantes F

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloning of GnRH receptors from several animal species has made it possible to investigate receptor function using site-directed mutagenesis. However, many mutant GnRH receptors exhibit decreased ligand binding, which makes analysis of their ligand binding characteristics technically difficult. To increase the affinity...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Flanagan CA,Fromme BJ,Davidson JS,Millar RP

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found that microwave (MW) stabilization greatly improves detection of the estrogen receptor (ER) in frozen sections of rhesus monkey oviduct by immunocytochemistry (ICC). Fresh samples of fimbriae were MW-irradiated, frozen, and then cryosectioned. The frozen sections were also MW-treated and then fixed in a p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Slayden OD,Koji T,Brenner RM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A presumptive mitochondrial T3 receptor previously reported from this and other laboratories appears capable of accounting for the activation of liver mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation within 30 min after iv bolus injection of nanogram doses of T3 into hypothyroid rats. The inner mitochondrial membrane carrier a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sterling K

更新日期：1986-07-01 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：:To elucidate the mechanism of humoral hypercalcemia elicited by human esophageal carcinoma cells (EC-GI), which constitutively produced interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha) and PTH-like factor, the effects of IL-1 alpha and PTH-related protein (PTH-rP) on bone resorption in vitro and on serum calcium concentrations in viv...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sato K,Fujii Y,Kasono K,Ozawa M,Imamura H,Kanaji Y,Kurosawa H,Tsushima T,Shizume K

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids are potent inhibitors of prostaglandin (PG) release in vitro, but they fail to influence basal PG production in vivo. To test one possible explanation for this apparent discrepancy in the present study we investigated the effect of dexamethasone (DEX) on basal and antidiuretic hormone-stimulated renal ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Náray-Fejes-Tóth A,Fejes-Tóth G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic peptide, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), can efficiently increase cAMP levels in pituitary cells and release a number of pituitary hormones, suggesting an important physiological role for this peptide in pituitary function. Exposure of GH3 rat pituitary cells to PACAP resul...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Coleman DT,Chen X,Sassaroli M,Bancroft C

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subunit structure of mammalian cytoplasmic progesterone receptors (PR) has been difficult to study because these proteins are subject to in vitro proteolysis; the structure of nuclear PR is unknown. We have now developed an in situ photoaffinity labeling method for PR that permits study of their subunits with mini...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Horwitz KB,Alexander PS

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:QRFP, an RFamide peptide, was recently identified as an endogenous ligand of an orphan G protein-coupled receptor, GPR103. Recent investigation revealed that acute intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of QRFP26/P518/26RFa, a constitutive part of QRFP43 (43-amino acid-residue form of QRFP), increases appetite i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Moriya R,Sano H,Umeda T,Ito M,Takahashi Y,Matsuda M,Ishihara A,Kanatani A,Iwaasa H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maternal skeleton resorbs during lactation to provide calcium to milk and the lost mineral content is restored after weaning. The changes are particularly marked in Ctcgrp null mice, which lose 50% of spine mineral content during lactation but restore it fully. The known calciotropic hormones are not required for ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Collins JN,Kirby BJ,Woodrow JP,Gagel RF,Rosen CJ,Sims NA,Kovacs CS

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Levels of plasma prolactin were estimated in ovariectomized, estrogen-treated rats following the systemic administration of several neural blocking and stimulating drugs. Phenoxybenzamine, an alpha-adrenergic blocker, at high doses, increased plasma prolactin. Phenotlamine, another alpha-adrenergic blocker, and propra...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lawson DM,Gala RR

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRF activity of synthetic vasopressins and pitressin was studied in an in vitro system of cultured rat adenohypophyseal cells using direct measurement of ACTH by radioimmunoassay. Pitressin (posterior pituitary extract) induced a dose-related secretion of ACTH whereas synthetic arginine or lysine vasopressin were devo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yasuda N,Greer MA

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid hormones are involved in functional differentiation of GH-producing somatotrophs. Glucocorticoid treatment prematurely induces GH expression in mammals and birds in a process requiring protein synthesis and Rat sarcoma (Ras) signaling. The objective of this study was to investigate mechanisms through wh...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ellestad LE,Puckett SA,Porter TE

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to further examine the hypothesis that activation of G protein-coupled receptor 54 (GPR54) signaling at the end of the juvenile phase of primate development is responsible for initiation of gonadarche and the onset of puberty. Accordingly, we determined whether repetitive iv admini...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Plant TM,Ramaswamy S,Dipietro MJ

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring and synthetic plant flavonoids, such as EMD 21388, are potent inhibitors of thyroid hormone 5'-deiodinase (5'-D) in vitro, but not when given in vivo, since they are tightly bound by serum transthyretin (TTR). EMD 21388 also inhibits the binding of T4 to human, dog, and rat serum TTR in vitro and w...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lueprasitsakul W,Alex S,Fang SL,Pino S,Irmscher K,Köhrle J,Braverman LE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we have investigated the cellular mechanisms of androgen-induced antral follicular growth arrest and the possible involvement of chemerin and its receptor chemokine-like receptor 1 (CMKLR1) in this process, using a chronically androgenized rat model. We hypothesize that hyperandrogenism induces a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kim JY,Xue K,Cao M,Wang Q,Liu JY,Leader A,Han JY,Tsang BK

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocannabinoids act as a major neuromodulatory system in a variety of physiological and behavioral functions. Three major lines of evidence suggest that the endocannabinoid system interacts with gonadal hormones. First, the endocannabinoid system is implicated in behaviors and physiological functions that are known t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gorzalka BB,Dang SS

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work examines the cellular pathophysiology associated with the weakened bone matrix found in a murine model of osteogenesis imperfecta murine (oim). Histomorphometric analysis of oim/oim bone showed significantly diminished bone mass, and the osteoblast and osteoclast histomorphometric parameters were increased i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kalajzic I,Terzic J,Rumboldt Z,Mack K,Naprta A,Ledgard F,Gronowicz G,Clark SH,Rowe DW

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postnatal development of the ovine uterus between birth and postnatal day (PND) 56 involves budding differentiation of the endometrial glandular epithelium from the luminal epithelium (LE) followed by extensive coiling and branching morphogenesis of the tubular glands. To determine the short- and long-term effects of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hayashi K,Carpenter KD,Spencer TE

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) has emerged as an intracellular and intercellular messenger in a number of biological systems. In the present study, we demonstrated that NO was produced by cultured rat Leydig cells, and that inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) messenger RNA (mRNA) was expressed in Leydig cells. NO was measured a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tatsumi N,Fujisawa M,Kanzaki M,Okuda Y,Okada H,Arakawa S,Kamidono S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tear fluid is known to contain many different hormones with relevance for ocular surface homeostasis. We studied the presence and functional role of insulin-like factor 3 (INSL3) and its cognate receptor RXFP2 (relaxin/insulin-like family peptide receptor 2) at the ocular surface and in tears. Expression of human INSL...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hampel U,Klonisch T,Sel S,Schulze U,Garreis F,Seitmann H,Zouboulis CC,Paulsen FP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of clinical progestins used in contraception and hormone therapies on the metabolic capacity of the brain has long-term implications for neurological health in pre- and postmenopausal women. Previous analyses indicated that progesterone and 17β-estradiol (E2) sustain and enhance brain mitochondrial energy-t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Irwin RW,Yao J,Ahmed SS,Hamilton RT,Cadenas E,Brinton RD

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on glycogen metabolism and the binding of [125I]iodo-EGF to receptors in fetal rat hepatocytes have been examined. The actions of EGF have been compared with those of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and insulin. EGF (0.1-45 nM) stimulated dose-dependent increases in [1...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Freemark M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory mediators, such as cytokines and prostaglandins, play a fundamental role in estrogen-dependent breast cancer through their ability to up-regulate aromatase expression and subsequent local production of estrogens in the breast. To study the link between estrogens and inflammation further, we examined the r...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Frasor J,Weaver AE,Pradhan M,Mehta K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Berberine, a hypoglycemic agent, has recently been shown to activate AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) contributing to its beneficial metabolic effects in peripheral tissues. However, whether berberine exerts a regulatory effect on beta-cells via AMPK or other signaling pathways and counteracts glucolipotoxicity rem...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhou L,Wang X,Shao L,Yang Y,Shang W,Yuan G,Jiang B,Li F,Tang J,Jing H,Chen M

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse uterine estrogen receptor (ER) was purified about 11,000-fold from normal mouse uteri by affinity chromatography. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the purified ER demonstrated a major component of 65,000 mol wt with minor fragments of the 54,000- and 37,000-dalton species, as judged b...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Horigome T,Golding TS,Quarmby VE,Lubahn DB,McCarty K Sr,Korach KS

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopaminergic inhibition of PRL release stimulated by agents that affect cytosolic Ca2+ concentrations, C-kinase activity, and cAMP levels was studied in perifused rat anterior pituitary cells cultured on cytodex beads. We used A23187 (20 microM) to increase intracellular Ca2+, the phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phor...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Delbeke D,Dannies PS

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described FSH receptor-mediated influx of 45Ca++ in cultured Sertoli cells from immature rats and receptor-enriched proteoliposomes via activation of voltage-sensitive and voltage-independent calcium channels. We have further shown that this effect of FSH does not require cholera toxin- or pertussis...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Grasso P,Santa-Coloma TA,Reichert LE Jr

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00