Electrical and morphological characteristics of anteroventral periventricular nucleus kisspeptin and other neurons in the female mouse.

abstract：:The initiation of mammalian puberty requires an increase in pulsatile release of GnRH from the hypothalamus. This increase is brought about by coordinated changes in transsynaptic and glial-neuronal communication. As the neuronal and glial excitatory inputs to the GnRH neuronal network increase, the transsynaptic inhi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ojeda SR,Lomniczi A,Mastronardi C,Heger S,Roth C,Parent AS,Matagne V,Mungenast AE

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are investigating the mechanisms by which aromatic hydrocarbons, such as 3-methylcholanthrene (MC), suppress hepatic cytochrome P450 2C11 (CYP2C11) gene expression. CYP2C11 is an enzyme expressed in the liver of male rats and is regulated by a pulsatile pattern of GH secretion. We have previously shown that MC atte...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Timsit YE,Riddick DS

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3), the predominant IGF carrier protein in circulation, is posttranslationally modified in vivo by IGFBP-3 protease(s) into a number of fragments. Based on the ascertained and predicted recognition sites for known IGFBP-3 proteases, FLAG-epitope tagged intact I...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Devi GR,Yang DH,Rosenfeld RG,Oh Y

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The placenta is the primary source of estrogens and progesterone during pregnancy. Because pregnant diabetic women are reported to have lower serum estrogen and higher progesterone levels than nondiabetic pregnant women, and placental insulin-like growth factor II (IGF-II) production may be elevated during diabetic pr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nestler JE

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin, a novel GH-releasing acylated peptide, was recently isolated from rat stomach. It stimulated the release of GH from the anterior pituitary through the GH secretagogue receptor (GHS-R). Ghrelin messenger RNA and the peptide are present in rat stomach, but its cellular source has yet to be determined. Using two...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Date Y,Kojima M,Hosoda H,Sawaguchi A,Mondal MS,Suganuma T,Matsukura S,Kangawa K,Nakazato M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of thyroid hormone (TH) in wound healing is not well understood. To gain insight, we evaluated the impact of TH deficiency on wound-healing genes in cultured keratinocytes. By RT-PCR, keratin 6a (K6a) and 16 (K16) gene expression in TH replete cells was 3.8- (P < 0.005) and 1.9-fold (P < 0.05) greater, ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Safer JD,Crawford TM,Holick MF

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:Inside-out plasma membrane vesicles from a glucose-responsive rat insulinoma showed an ATP- and Mg2(+)-dependent uptake of Ca2+. The Km (concentration giving half-maximal activity) for Ca2+ was 60 nM. In the presence of 0.4 microM free Ca2+, the Km for ATP was 15 microM, and the Km for Mg2+ was 4 microM. Glucose (30 m...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hoenig M,Culberson LH,Ferguson DC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (Prl) secreting cells in a mixed pituitary cell culture form microscopically-identifiable plaques (zones of hemolysis around the lactotropes) when incubated in a monolayer with staphylococcal protein-A-coated ovine erythrocytes in the presence of Prl antiserum and complement. Plaques form first at 15-30 min ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Neill JD,Frawley LS

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently discovered estrogen receptor-beta (ERbeta) is expressed in rodent and human testes. To obtain insight in the physiological role of ERbeta we have investigated the cell type-specific expression pattern of ERbeta messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein in the testis of rats of various ages by in situ hybridization...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： van Pelt AM,de Rooij DG,van der Burg B,van der Saag PT,Gustafsson JA,Kuiper GG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T4 dynamically regulates the levels of type II iodothyronine 5'-deiodinase in the brain. Using an astrocyte cell culture model, we have shown that thyroxine increases inactivation of this enzyme through a mechanism using the actin cytoskeleton. In the absence of T4, the filamentous actin (F-actin) stress fibers are ab...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Farwell AP,Leonard JL

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide (alphaCGRP) is released mainly from sensory and motor nerves in response to physiological stimuli. Despite well-documented pharmacological effects, its primary physiological role has thus far remained obscure. Increased lipid content, particularly in skeletal muscle and liver, is ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Danaher RN,Loomes KM,Leonard BL,Whiting L,Hay DL,Xu LY,Kraegen EW,Phillips AR,Cooper GJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides its role in body weight control leptin may also act as a vasoactive hormone. This study was designed to investigate whether leptin modifies angiotensin II (ANG II)-induced vascular responses. The expression of functional leptin receptors (OB-Rb) was detected in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) from adult W...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fortuño A,Rodríguez A,Gómez-Ambrosi J,Muñiz P,Salvador J,Díez J,Frühbeck G

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the preoptic region, nitric oxide (NO) production varies during the ovarian cycle and has the ability to impact hypothalamic reproductive function. One mechanism for the regulation of NO release mediated by estrogens during the estrous cycle includes physical association of the calcium-activated neuronal NO syn...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Parkash J,d'Anglemont de Tassigny X,Bellefontaine N,Campagne C,Mazure D,Buée-Scherrer V,Prevot V

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise has a potent insulin-sensitivity enhancing effect on skeletal muscle, but the intracellular mechanisms that mediate this effect are not well understood. In muscle, Ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 (Rac1) regulates both insulin- and contraction-stimulated glucose transport and is dysregulated in insu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sylow L,Møller LL,D'Hulst G,Schjerling P,Jensen TE,Richter EA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin, a novel 28 amino acid peptide found in hypothalamus and stomach, was recently identified as the endogenous ligand for the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS-R). We have now found that both intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) and intraperitoneal (i.p.) administration of ghrelin in freely feeding rats stimu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wren AM,Small CJ,Ward HL,Murphy KG,Dakin CL,Taheri S,Kennedy AR,Roberts GH,Morgan DG,Ghatei MA,Bloom SR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) is a member of the nerve growth factor family that is important for neuronal survival and plasticity. We recently demonstrated that stress decreases BDNF messenger RNA (mRNA) levels in the hippocampus, which raises the possibility that BDNF may play a role in regulation of the h...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Smith MA,Makino S,Kim SY,Kvetnansky R

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic insulin signaling is essential to the maintenance of glucose and energy homeostasis. During pathological states, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus, insulin signaling is impaired. One key mechanism involved in the development of insulin resistance is lipotoxicity, through increased circulating s...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mayer CM,Belsham DD

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effect of two thirds hepatectomy on rat liver insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II) receptors and IGF-II receptor messenger RNA (mRNA) levels. IGF-II receptor levels were determined in liver plasma membrane and Golgi/endosome fractions from sham-operated and hepatectomized rats by ligand bindi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Scott CD,Ballesteros M,Baxter RC

更新日期：1990-11-01 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：:The Kiss1 gene and its product kisspeptin are important regulators of reproduction. In rodents, Kiss1 is expressed in the hypothalamic arcuate (ARC) and anteroventral periventricular (AVPV)/rostral periventricular (PeN) nuclei. In the AVPV/PeN, females have more Kiss1 and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) neurons than males. ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Semaan SJ,Murray EK,Poling MC,Dhamija S,Forger NG,Kauffman AS

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of the GnRH receptor (GnRHR) and its messenger RNA depend on the pattern of administration of GnRH. In this study, internal deletion mutants in a luciferase reporter gene vector (GnRHR-pXP2) containing a 1226-bp promoter fragment of mouse GnRHR gene were used to examine the regulation of GnRHR gene transcri...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Maya-Núñez G,Conn PM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylamine and monensin are two agents known to interfere with the recycling of membrane receptors. In the present investigation, we studied their effects on the binding, intracellular distribution, and action of insulin in isolated pancreatic acini prepared from diabetic mice. These drugs had several similar effects...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Potau N,Bailey AC,Roach E,Williams JA,Goldfine ID

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new hydrolase activity has been identified by its capability of cleaving t-boc-Ala-Ala-Pro-Ala-AMC, the released 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin (AMC) being quantified fluorometrically. The activity in the 28,000 X g supernatant fraction of homogenates of weanling mouse uterus was about one fifth that of the adult mouse. T...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Katz J,Finlay TH,Tom C,Levitz M

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adrenal gland is highly vascularized with tightly regulated blood flow that is closely correlated with steroidogenesis. Mechanisms involved in the regulation of adrenal blood flow and vascular tone are largely unknown. The present study characterizes the contractile responses of isolated small cortical arteries fr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhang DX,Gauthier KM,Campbell WB

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the putative role of inhibin in regulation of spermatogenesis, expression of inhibin subunits was examined at defined stages of the cycle of the rat seminiferous epithelium. Twenty 2-mm segments of seminiferous tubules at stages XIII-I, II-VI, VII-VIII, and IX-XII were dissected using the transil...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bhasin S,Krummen LA,Swerdloff RS,Morelos BS,Kim WH,diZerega GS,Ling N,Esch F,Shimasaki S,Toppari J

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin has emerged as putative regulator of an array of endocrine and nonendocrine functions, including cell proliferation. Recently, we provided evidence for the expression of ghrelin in mature, but not in undifferentiated, Leydig cells of rat and human testis. Yet testicular actions of ghrelin, other than modulatio...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Barreiro ML,Gaytan F,Castellano JM,Suominen JS,Roa J,Gaytan M,Aguilar E,Dieguez C,Toppari J,Tena-Sempere M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of cholesterol side-chain cleavage cytochrome P450 (P450scc), 17 alpha-hydroxylase cytochrome P450 (P45017 alpha), and 3 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3 beta HSD) was studied in bovine placenta and fetal adrenal glands throughout gestation. The levels of expression of these enzymes were much lower ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Conley AJ,Head JR,Stirling DT,Mason JI

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:Although acute leptin administration in the hypothalamus decreases food intake and increases peripheral energy metabolism, the peripheral actions of central chronic leptin administration are less understood. In this study, we investigated what effects chronic (7 d) intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of lepti...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Keung W,Palaniyappan A,Lopaschuk GD

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00