Absence of thyroid hormone activation during development underlies a permanent defect in adaptive thermogenesis.

abstract：:We have investigated the interaction of estrogen with GnRH on the regulation of LH subunit mRNA in female hypogonadal (hpg) mice receiving constant frequency and amplitude pulsatile GnRH treatment for up to 18 days. The level of cytosolic common alpha mRNA in female hpg mouse pituitaries was 45 +/- 6% of normal female...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Saade G,London DR,Clayton RN

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative light microscope radioautographic approach was utilized to locate specific binding sites for blood-borne 125I-labeled ACTH1-24 in the rat brain. Specific binding occurred exclusively in the external zone of the median eminence, adjacent to the primary portal plexus, and to a lesser extent in the ventr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： van Houten M,Khan MN,Khan RJ,Posner BI

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influences of mating on serum luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) levels were evaluated in 4-day cyclic proestrous rats of the Wistar strain. Blood samples were collected via guillotine from mated and unmated controls at 1900-2000 h or 2100--2200 h. Serum LH levels were determined by tw...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Moss RL,Dudley CA,Schwartz NB

更新日期：1977-02-01 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：:The microenvironment of placental mesenchymal stem cells (PMSCs) is dynamic throughout gestation and determines changes in cell fate. In vivo, PMSCs initially develop in low-oxygen tension and low IGF-I concentrations, and both increase gradually with gestation. The impact of varying concentrations of IGF-I and changi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Youssef A,Iosef C,Han VK

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart has epicardial adipose tissue that produces adipokines and mesenchymal stem cells. Systemic adipose tissue is involved in the pathophysiology of obesity-related heart diseases. However, the method for analyzing the direct interaction between adipose tissue and cardiomyocytes has not been established. Here we...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Anan M,Uchihashi K,Aoki S,Matsunobu A,Ootani A,Node K,Toda S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GnRH neurons are the central regulators of fertility, and their activity is modulated by steroid feedback. In women with hyperandrogenemic infertility and in animal models of these disorders, elevated androgen levels interfere with progesterone (P) negative feedback. Our previous work showed that steroids altered the ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Pielecka J,Quaynor SD,Moenter SM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of retinoic acids (RAs) on development of seminal vesicles (SVs) of neonatal mice were investigated in vitro. SVs from 0-day-old male mice were cultured for 2-6 days in serum-free, chemically defined medium containing transferrin and BSA supplemented with 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT; 10(-8) M) and insu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tanji N,Yokoyama M,Takeuchi M,Terada N,Dahiya R,Cunha GR

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High density lipoprotein (HDL) participates in reverse cholesterol transport and in the delivery of cholesterol to steroid-producing tissues. Scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI) was recently shown to bind HDL and mediate internalization of its cholesterol content. We have cloned the rat homolog of this receptor,...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Johnson MS,Svensson PA,Helou K,Billig H,Levan G,Carlsson LM,Carlsson B

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormones (THs) are charged and iodinated amino acid derivatives that need to pass the cell membrane facilitated by thyroid hormone transmembrane transporters (THTT) to exert their biological function. The importance of functional THTT is affirmed by the devastating effects of mutations in the human monocarboxy...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Johannes J,Jayarama-Naidu R,Meyer F,Wirth EK,Schweizer U,Schomburg L,Köhrle J,Renko K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anterior pituitary (AP) is made of five different cell types. The relative abundance and phenotype of AP cells may change in different physiological situations as an expression of pituitary plasticity. Here, we analyze in detail the phenotype of mouse corticotropes and the effects of acute cold stress on AP cell p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Senovilla L,Núñez L,Villalobos C,García-Sancho J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the direct effect of leptin on GH gene expression and secretion and the role of nitric oxide as a possible mediator in pig anterior pituitary cells. Pituitary cells from adult sows were treated for 4 or 24 h with rhleptin (from 0.1 nM to 1 microM) alone or in association with G...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Baratta M,Saleri R,Mainardi GL,Valle D,Giustina A,Tamanini C

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dexamethasone-induced changes in insulin and epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor number, autophosphorylation, and kinase activity were studied in intact rat hepatocytes. Hepatocytes were freshly isolated from Sprague-Dawley rats treated with dexamethasone (1 mg/kg) for 4 days and from untreated littermates. Dexamet...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Karasik A,Kahn CR

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently disclosed sustained episodes of LH release (minisurges) during the afternoons of the juvenile-peripubertal transition period in the female rat. To determine if these LH minisurges are gonad independent, i.e. develop in the absence of the ovaries, animals were ovariectomized when neonates, and the mode...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Urbanski HF,Ojeda SR

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary DNAs encoding two forms of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) peptide precursors were identified from goldfish brain and named CART I and CART II. Each cDNA contains a signal peptide sequence, the putative CART-like peptide, and a carboxy-terminal extension peptide. Form I encodes a 117...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Volkoff H,Peter RE

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the specificity inferred by its name, glycogen synthase kinase (GSK)-3beta is an important kinase with a plethora of significant cellular targets, including cytoskeletal proteins and transcription factors, and its activity is regulated by phosphorylation on tyrosine/serine residues. As part of our efforts to d...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Liao X,Thrasher JB,Holzbeierlein J,Stanley S,Li B

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Permanent effects of postnatal gonads on dopamine (DA)-mediated regulation of PRL secretion were examined in adult male rats of the Wistar-Imamichi strain. Rats were bilaterally orchidectomized at varying postnatal days, i.e. 8 h after birth [neonatal castration (NC)] or at 1, 2, 3, 4, or 6 weeks of age, and subjected...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Watanobe H,Takebe K

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of beta 1- and beta 3-adrenoreceptor mRNAs in several rat tissues were determined simultaneously with a sensitive nuclease protection assay. The beta 1-receptor gene was expressed to varying degrees in most tissues examined. By contrast, high levels of beta 3-receptor mRNA were only found in brown and white...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Granneman JG,Lahners KN

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some 17 alpha-alkylated androgens used as anabolic agents, such as stanozolol (ST) and danazol (DA), have specific effects on the liver that are not exerted by testosterone. This gives rise to the possibility that a steroid-binding protein, other than the androgen receptor, could modulate the intracellular actions of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fernández L,Chirino R,Boada LD,Navarro D,Cabrera N,del Rio I,Díaz-Chico BN

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human breast cancer cell line MCF-7 responds to estrogens with increased progesterone receptor (PR) levels. In this study, we use dense amino acid density shift analyses to address directly the question of whether estrogen increases PR levels in MCF-7 cells by altering rates of receptor synthesis and/or degradatio...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nardulli AM,Greene GL,O'Malley BW,Katzenellenbogen BS

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kisspeptins are hypothalamic neuropeptides encoded by KISS1 and recently described as major regulators of GnRH release from hypothalamic neurons. Although 17beta-estradiol (E2)-induced up-regulation of KISS1 expression has been documented in anteroventral periventricular nucleus neurons, E2 down-regulates KISS1 expres...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Huijbregts L,de Roux N

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SRIF-LI) has previously been demonstrated immunohistochemically in rat thyroid parafollicular cells. Studies were therefore performed to determine whether SRIF-LI was present in a transplantable medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (MCT) in the WAG/Rij strain of rat. SRIF-LI was found...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Berelowitz M,Cibelius M,Szabo M,Frohman LA,Epstein S,Bell NH

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found notable sex difference in peptidylarginine deiminase (EC 3.5.3.15) in rat pituitaries. Pituitaries collected from 3-week to 6-month-old male rats, and those from 3-week-old females showed negligible enzyme activities. The enzyme activity of female pituitaries increased markedly by 2 months, and even furt...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Senshu T,Akiyama K,Nagata S,Watanabe K,Hikichi K

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a map describing the antigenic determinants (epitopes) of the human CG (hCG) molecule. A panel of monoclonal antibodies to hCG, previously characterized by us was incorporated into two-site binding assays to probe hCG by a 21 X 11 matrix of 231 pairs of MCA. Nine different reaction patterns of reciprocal ho...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Schwarz S,Berger P,Wick G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PRL) receptors are expressed in a broad range of human cell types and in a majority of human breast and prostate cancers. Experimentally, normal and malignant human cells are typically cultured in vitro in media containing bovine PRL (bPRL) from fetal bovine serum or as xenotransplants in vivo in the presen...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Utama FE,Tran TH,Ryder A,LeBaron MJ,Parlow AF,Rui H

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxyntomodulin is derived from proglucagon processing in the intestine and the central nervous system. To date, no role in the central nervous system has been demonstrated. We report here that oxyntomodulin inhibits refeeding when injected intracerebroventricularly and into the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of 2...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dakin CL,Gunn I,Small CJ,Edwards CM,Hay DL,Smith DM,Ghatei MA,Bloom SR

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is the process of cellular self-destruction, and genes such as bcl-2 and bax are known to inhibit and promote apoptosis, respectively. In this study, we show that apoptosis can be induced in pancreatic beta-cell lines, and we investigate the apoptotic pathways through the bcl-2 and bax genes and intracellula...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mizuno N,Yoshitomi H,Ishida H,Kuromi H,Kawaki J,Seino Y,Seino S

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized the existence of vagal arginine sensors in the liver which modulate arginine-induced pancreatic hormone secretion. The present study was carried out to examine the efferent pathways and receptor mechanisms from arginine sensors using selective vagotomies and autonomic drugs on the secretion of insulin ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tanaka K,Inoue S,Nagase H,Takamura Y

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepcidin plays an essential role in maintaining normal iron homeostasis outside the brain. This recently discovered iron regulation hormone is predominantly expressed in the liver, and regulated by iron and hypoxia. As an antimicrobial peptide, this hormone is also elevated during infections and inflammation. In this ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wang Q,Du F,Qian ZM,Ge XH,Zhu L,Yung WH,Yang L,Ke Y

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A time-course study was performed to correlate serum gonadotropin changes after ovariectomy (OVX) or OVX plus acute estradiol (E2) treatment with LHRH content and norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA) content and turnover in the suprachiasmatic-medial preoptic region (SCH-PO), the medial basal hypothalamus (MBH), and ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Advis JP,McCann SM,Negro-Vilar A

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00