Delivering the code: polyplex carriers for deoxyribonucleic acid and ribonucleic acid interference therapies.

abstract：:Maternal nutrition can affect the susceptibility of the offspring to metabolic disease later in life, suggesting that this period is a window of opportunity for intervention to reduce the risk of metabolic disease. Resveratrol, a natural polyphenol, has a wide range of beneficial properties including anti-obesogenic, ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ros P,Díaz F,Freire-Regatillo A,Argente-Arizón P,Barrios V,Argente J,Chowen JA

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:This study investigates the signaling pathways that lead to acute augmentation of secretagogue-induced LH secretion, the physiologically relevant manifestation of which is LHRH self-potentiation. The consequence of LHRH self-potentiation is an augmented LH secretory response to subsequent exposure to the peptide. Alth...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Waring DW,Turgeon JL

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To define further the mechanism by which metoclopramide, a dopamine antagonist, stimulates aldosterone secretion, seven lambs were injected iv with metoclopramide during a constant infusion of 5% dextrose in water and again during a constant infusion of trimethapan, a ganglionic blocker. In addition, suspensions of ad...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wilson TA,Kaiser DL,Peach MJ,Wright EM,Carey RM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported that pretreatment with electroacupuncture (EA) at stomach meridian point 36 (St36) prevents the chronic cold-stress increase in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA), an action that may be under central control. Given that treatment for stress-related symptoms usually begins after ons...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Eshkevari L,Mulroney SE,Egan R,Lao L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreastatin, a novel 49-amino acid peptide isolated from porcine pancreas, shows over 70% sequence homology to the central part of bovine and human chromogranin-A. Using an N-terminal and C-terminal synthetic peptide, we developed two sensitive and specific RIAs for the detection of pancreastatin-like immunoreactivi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schmidt WE,Siegel EG,Lamberts R,Gallwitz B,Creutzfeldt W

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple interferon (IFN)-tau genes exist in cattle, but it has remained unclear how many are expressed, the extent of their variation, and whether different genes exhibit similar patterns of expression and code for proteins with similar biological activities. A total of 118 complementary DNA (cDNA) were bi-directiona...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ealy AD,Larson SF,Liu L,Alexenko AP,Winkelman GL,Kubisch HM,Bixby JA,Roberts RM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In seasonally breeding species, an animal's photoperiodic history (the daylength or photoperiod previously experienced) influences the reproductive response to new photoperiods. However, this has only been examined over a relatively narrow range of photoperiods. We assessed whether Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungor...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rivkees SA,Hall DA,Weaver DR,Reppert SM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging of the female reproductive system in rats is marked by discrete stages in the disappearance of regular estrous cyclicity. We determined at which point in the transition to acyclicity changes in the LH pulse generator could be detected by comparing pulsatile LH release in ovariectomized young rats to three groups...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Scarbrough K,Wise PM

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that PRL secretion is under a tonic inhibition exercised by the hypothalamic dopamine (DA). One feature of this regulation is an immediate withdrawal reaction (elevation of PRL release) of mammotropes after disruption of hypothalamic influence. Although plasma PRL rises rapidly, the suckling sti...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Murányi A,Gergely P,Fekete MI,Nagy GM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital hypothyroidism with thyroid dysgenesis (TD) is a frequent human condition characterized by elevated levels of TSH in response to reduced thyroid hormone levels. Congenital hypothyroidism is a genetically heterogeneous disease. In the majority of cases studied, no causative mutations have been identified and...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Amendola E,De Luca P,Macchia PE,Terracciano D,Rosica A,Chiappetta G,Kimura S,Mansouri A,Affuso A,Arra C,Macchia V,Di Lauro R,De Felice M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orexins/hypocretins heavily innervate the posterior division of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (pPVT), which expresses both orexin receptor types. The pPVT is important for adaptations to repeated stress, particularly the ability to facilitate to novel stress after repeated stress exposure. Here, we exami...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Heydendael W,Sharma K,Iyer V,Luz S,Piel D,Beck S,Bhatnagar S

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primate brain was thought to contain only the GnRH known as mammalian GnRH (mGnRH). This study investigates whether a second form of GnRH exists within the primate brain. We found that brain extracts from adult stumptail and rhesus monkeys contained two forms of GnRH that were similar to mGnRH and chicken GnRH-II ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lescheid DW,Terasawa E,Abler LA,Urbanski HF,Warby CM,Millar RP,Sherwood NM

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pure porcine cholecystokinin-33 [the triacontatriapeptide form of cholecystokinin (CCK-33)], gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP), and secretin were infused in rats in doses of 1, 10 and 1000 pmol/kg . min. The peptides were administered alone or in combination with glucose (40 mg/kg . min) or arginine (50 mg/kg . min...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Szecówka J,Lins PE,Efendić S

更新日期：1982-04-01 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：:Puberty in primates is timed by 2 hypothalamic events: during late infancy a decline in pulsatile GnRH release occurs, leading to a hypogonadotropic state that maintains quiescence of the prepubertal gonad; and in late juvenile development, pulsatile GnRH release is reactivated and puberty initiated, a phase of develo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ramaswamy S,Dwarki K,Ali B,Gibbs RB,Plant TM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth regulatory activity of transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was studied in a clonal strain of thyroid papillary carcinoma cell (NPA). Despite the presence of TGF beta 1 and its receptor messenger RNA in thyroid carcinoma, the molecular mechanism of TGF beta 1 action on cell growth of thyroid carci...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Usa T,Tsukazaki T,Namba H,Ohtsuru A,Kimura H,Villadolid MC,Nagataki S,Yamashita S

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women with type 1 diabetes are subfertile. Diabetes negatively affects pregnancy by causing early miscarriage and poor prenatal outcomes. In this study we examine consequences of maternal type 1 diabetes on early embryo development, metabolic gene expression, and the pattern of insulin receptor (IR) and IGF-I receptor...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ramin N,Thieme R,Fischer S,Schindler M,Schmidt T,Fischer B,Navarrete Santos A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tissue-specific differential processing of proglucagon (Pg) yields glucagon in pancreatic A cells and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), GLP-2, and glicentin in intestinal L cells. It has been suggested that the difference in Pg cleavage in A and L cells is due to the presence of distinct prohormone convertases (PC)...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Damholt AB,Buchan AM,Holst JJ,Kofod H

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin-II (Ang-II), K+, and ACTH are important stimulators of aldosterone secretion that require Ca2+ influx to be active. However, Ang-II and K+ are linked to the Ca2+ messenger system, while ACTH is coupled to the cAMP pathway. Peripheral-type binding sites for benzodiazepines are particularly abundant in stero...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Python CP,Rossier MF,Vallotton MB,Capponi AM

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of chronic stress paradigms have been shown to increase basal activity in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis, resulting in hypercorticoidism. Despite this, chronically stressed rats typically exhibit facilitated ACTH responses to acute novel stress, suggesting that the activity of some central ne...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Scribner KA,Akana SF,Walker CD,Dallman MF

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the kidney, 11 beta-dehydrogenase (11 beta-DH) converts the active steroid cortisol to inactive cortisone (corticosterone to 11-dehydrocorticosterone in the rat). In man, congenital and acquired deficiency of 11 beta-dehydrogenase are rare causes of hypertension in which cortisol acts as a potent mineralocorticoid....

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stewart PM,Whorwood CB,Barber P,Gregory J,Monder C,Franklyn JA,Sheppard MC

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a sensitive method for the simultaneous measurement of TSH subunit mRNAs, we have investigated their hormonal regulation in the pituitary glands of normal and hypothyroid rats. Oligodeoxyribonucleotides (probes) complementary to coding regions of rat alpha- and TSH beta-subunit mRNAs were synthesized. These prob...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Carr FE,Ridgway EC,Chin WW

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uterine contractions at parturition depend upon a variety of factors, including gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-ergic stimulation. A new subunit of the GABA(A) receptor, pi, has recently been identified as being particularly abundant in the rat uterus. Reduced derivatives of progesterone, such as the 3alpha,5alpha-redu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fujii E,Mellon SH

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Profound somatotroph hypoplasia in the dwarf (dw/dw) rat is accompanied by an estrogen-dependent induction of prolactin secretion by the GH secretagogue, GHRP-6. Using electron microscopy, we demonstrated that the reduction in the somatotroph population in the dw/dw pituitary is accompanied by the presence of a morpho...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Huerta-Ocampo I,Christian HC,Thompson NM,El-Kasti MM,Wells T

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1 (PGC-1), a cold-induced protein expressed in brown adipose tissue (BAT), plays a role in adaptive thermogenesis by up-regulating uncoupling proteins (UCP). Here, we explore its relationship to the thermogenic actions of leptin, which also up-regulates UCPs...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kakuma T,Wang ZW,Pan W,Unger RH,Zhou YT

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In view of recent reports on ovarian production and action of transforming growth factors (TGFs) and inhibin-related proteins (inhibin, activin, and follistatin), we have examined the effects of these hormones on the function of preovulatory follicles in vitro. Individual preovulatory follicles were obtained from PMSG...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tsafriri A,Vale W,Hsueh AJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 (IL-1), one of the mediators of the interaction between the immune and the neuroendocrine system, is well known to modulate anterior pituitary hormone secretion. As IL-1 influences growth of various cell types, we investigated whether IL-1 is also a growth factor of pituitary cells. We demonstrate that I...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Renner U,Newton CJ,Pagotto U,Sauer J,Arzt E,Stalla GK

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that cAMP inhibits autocrine IGF-I gene expression in rat C6 glioma cells. In this study we examined the influence of cAMP on IGF-binding protein gene expression in C6 cells. cAMP potently inhibited IGF-binding protein-3 mRNA and, to a lesser extent, IGF-binding protein-4 mRNA and transiently st...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wang L,Ma X,Yeh LC,Adamo ML

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deciduomal reactions in response to artificial stimuli were induced on the tube-ligated uterine horns of unilateral pregnant hamsters. Serum progesterone levels were determined, and the changes of estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER and PR, respectively) were simultaneously studied in the deciduoma. After stimulat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chen TJ,Hwang TC,Huang CC,Jow GM,Yu JY

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00