Generation of a specific activin antagonist by modification of the activin A propeptide.

abstract：:To examine the molecular genetic basis for the age-related increase in PRL secretion and decrease in LH production in the rat, we measured steady state levels of PRL and LH beta mRNA in pituitary homogenates and cell lysates from monolayer adenohypophyseal cultures. These mRNA levels were compared with the correspondi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stewart DA,Blackman MR,Kowatch MA,Danner DB,Roth GS

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid hormones act in the nucleus of the cell to alter expression of specific genes and change cell metabolism. In liver, these hormones have been reported to increase mitochondrial respiratory activity, which is regulated by both nuclear and mitochondrial gene products. We examined the effects of the synthet...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Van Itallie CM

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide-38 (PACAP38) is a neuropeptide related to vasoactive intestinal peptide-secretin-glucagon which stimulates adenylate cyclase in cultured rat pituitary cells and stimulates LH and FSH release in vitro and in vivo. Because the cAMP-protein kinase-A pathway regulates the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tsujii T,Ishizaka K,Winters SJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of ovarian follicles undergo atresia through a mechanism involving apoptotic cell death. Although GnRH and its agonists have been shown to suppress ovarian growth and differentiation in hypophysectomized rats, studies on the induction of follicle atresia by GnRH are contradictory. In the present study, th...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Billig H,Furuta I,Hsueh AJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonadotropin subunit gene expression is regulated by gonadal, hypothalamic, and locally derived hormones. In particular, activin rapidly (within hours) acts at the gonadotrope to selectively increase the expression of FSH beta messenger RNA (mRNA). A family of activin receptors (ActRI, ActRII, and ActRIIB) has been id...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dalkin AC,Gilrain JT,Marshall JC

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:UMR106-06 cells predominantly express the C1a isoform of the rat calcitonin (CT) receptor (CTR). We have compared the homologous regulation of the C1a CTR endogenously expressed in UMR106-06 cells with the cloned C1a CTR in transfected HEK 293 cells, in which expression is driven by a heterologous promoter. It was fou...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Findlay DM,Houssami S,Christopoulos G,Sexton PM

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of intraventricular (ivt) injection of bombesin on the TRH-induced increase in temperature in the midbrain reticular formation (mrf) of the rat brain under pentobarbital anesthesia. Ivt injection of TRH in a dose of 3 nmol significantly antagonized the decrease in brain temperature induced ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mori M,Yamaguchi M,Yamada M,Kobayashi I,Kobayashi S,Ishikawa K,Suzuki M

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present investigation was undertaken to examine the possible role of cAMP in PTH-stimulated prostaglandin (PG) production in organ cultures of neonatal mouse parietal bones. Cultures were treated with PTH, forskolin, isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX), and 8-bromo-cAMP (8BrcAMP). We found that similar concentrations of...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Klein-Nulend J,Bowers PN,Raisz LG

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Owing to the prevalence of depression during childbearing, mothers can be prescribed multiple antidepressants; however, little is known about the risk and consequences to the offspring or subsequent generations. Fluoxetine (FLX) is usually the first-line of pharmacological treatment for affective disorders in pregnant...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Vera-Chang MN,Moon TW,Trudeau VL

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) plays an important role in development of the central nervous system and is neurotropic for a variety of neurons. In this study, we investigated whether bFGF is neurotropic for GT1 GnRH neuronal cell lines and if these cells express functional FGF receptors (FGFRs). The GT1 cell l...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tsai PS,Werner S,Weiner RI

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pdx-1 plays a key role in the development of the pancreas and the control of islet gene transcription and has also been proposed as a dominant regulator of the alpha- vs. beta-cell phenotype via extinction of proglucagon expression. To ascertain the relationship between Pdx-1 and proglucagon gene expression, we examin...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Flock G,Cao X,Drucker DJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six pony mares were ovariectomized (OVX) on day 16 of diestrus during June and July, 1972, to study short term changes in plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) concentrations. Plasma LH was higher (P less than .05) 3 days after OVX (1.76 ng/ml) than the day after OVX (1.01 ng/ml), and a gradual increase occurred over the fi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Garcia MC,Ginther OJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of diabetes on basal calcium metabolism and the response to endocrine stimulation were studied in hepatocytes from acute and long term diabetic rats. Hepatocyte calcium sequestration and turnover were increased in both acute and chronic diabetes. Cytosolic free calcium (Cai2+) was significantly increased i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Studer RK,Ganas L

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, there is a significant decrease in serum T(3) and increase in rT(3) at different time points after myocardial infarction, whereas serum TSH and T(4) remain unaltered. We report here a time course study of pituitary-thyroid function and thyroid hormone metabolism in rats subjected to myocardial infarction by...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Olivares EL,Marassi MP,Fortunato RS,da Silva AC,Costa-e-Sousa RH,Araújo IG,Mattos EC,Masuda MO,Mulcahey MA,Huang SA,Bianco AC,Carvalho DP

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estradiol-17beta (E2) is suspected to exert a role in the regulation of testicular activity. Using a nonmammalian vertebrate model (the frog, Rana esculenta), we have investigated whether c-fos activity is detectable in the testis during the annual sexual cycle and whether E2 exerts a regulatory role on spermatogenesi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cobellis G,Pierantoni R,Minucci S,Pernas-Alonso R,Meccariello R,Fasano S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) and its receptors in human and mouse pituicytes are expressed abundantly in corticotrophs and somatotrophs. As LIF induces POMC transcription and LPS-mediated stress also induces hypothalamic and pituitary LIF expression, we studied ACTH secretion in LIF knockout (LIF KO) mice. Basal A...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Akita S,Malkin J,Melmed S

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of the kidney in the catabolism of gut glucagon-like immunoreactivity (GLI), we compared the plasma GLI responses of normal and nephrectomized dogs given intraduodenal glucose loads and studied the clearance of gut GLI by the isolated perfused rat kidney. Both basal and postload plasma samples were...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rovira A,López-Novoa JM,Zubiaur M,Matesanz R,Ghiglione M,Pascual JM,Valverde I

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marked development of the mammary parenchyma (ducts, lobules, and alveoli) occurs during the last third of the 115-day gestation period in the gilt. These changes in the mammary gland are temporally correlated with elevated blood levels of relaxin, estrogen, and progesterone. We recently demonstrated that relaxin play...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Winn RJ,Baker MD,Merle CA,Sherwood OD

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin (ET) and GnRH act through specific receptors to promote Ca2+ mobilization and influx pathways in pituitary gonadotrophs. In the present study cytoplasmic calcium ([Ca2+]i) and secretory responses to these two agonists are compared. In single gonadotrophs, low concentrations of both agonists cause oscillator...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stojilković SS,Iida T,Cesnjaj M,Catt KJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate the role of dopaminergic mechanisms in the control of aldosterone secretion. Six rhesus monkeys received metoclopramide (1.25 mg, iv), with 5% dextrose (vehicle) or with dopamine (4 micrograms/kg . min) infusions begun 60 min before the administration of the dopamine antagonists....

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sowers JR,Berg G,Martin VS,Mayes DM

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the participation of cyclic nucleotides in LHRH-mediated gonadotropin release, cells from the anterior pituitaries of 15-day-old female rats were fractionated on an albumin gradient by sedimentation at unit gravity. gonadotrophs and somatotrophs were detected in the fractions by histology and RIA of hor...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Snyder G,Naor Z,Fawcett CP,McCann SM

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are many precedents for the production from a single precursor of multiple peptides, with independent receptors and different bioactivities. Gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) is initially synthesized as amino acids 1-27 of a 125-residue precursor, proGRP, and is subsequently cleaved and amidated to form GRP18-27. ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Patel O,Dumesny C,Shulkes A,Baldwin GS

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that GnRH-stimulated gonadotropin secretion is augmented by coadministration with neuropeptide-Y (NPY) in anterior pituitaries removed in the afternoon from proestrous, but not metestrous, rats. To test the hypothesis that these effects of NPY are due to an interaction with progesterone (...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Knox KL,Bauer-Dantoin AC,Levine JE,Schwartz NB

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L-Asparaginase (ASNase), a drug widely used in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has been reported to decrease serum T4-binding globulin (TBG) levels, while results of serum albumin determinations were conflicting. This effect in vivo has been attributed to depressed liver protein synthesis, but this hypo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bartalena L,Martino E,Antonelli A,Pacchiarotti A,Robbins J,Pinchera A

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between serum levels of rat GH (rGH), rat PRL (rPRL), corticosterone, estrogen, and testosterone and the liver-binding sites specific to [125I]iodo-human GH (hGH), -human PRL (hPRL), and -rPRL were investigated in normal rats, in rats bearing the GH- and PRL-secreting tumor (GH3), and in rats 14 days ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Furuhashi N,Fang VS

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When colonic crypt cells isolated from intact rats are incubated with [3H]corticosterone specific nuclear binding is displaced by neither aldosterone nor the antiglucocorticoid RU38486, suggesting that [3H]corticosterone is binding to a site distinct from classical mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors. TLC r...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sheppard KE,Funder JW

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) 2 and 4 can stimulate FSHbeta-subunit (Fshb) transcription alone and in synergy with activins. We further showed that BMP2 signals via the BMP type IA receptor (or activin receptor-like kinase 3) to mediate its effects. However, the intracellular mechanisms ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ho CC,Bernard DJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin A is a member of the transforming growth factor-beta family of growth factors and a potent regulator of cellular activity. A number of binding proteins for activin A have been identified, including alpha 2-macroglobulin (alpha 2M). Alpha 2M has several conformational states that are known to have different gro...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Niemuller CA,Randall KJ,Webb DJ,Gonias SL,LaMarre J

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PRL and placental lactogen (PL) play key roles in maintaining the rodent corpus luteum through pregnancy. Suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS) have been shown to decrease cell sensitivity to cytokines, including PRL, and so here we have addressed the issue of whether luteolysis induced by prostaglandin F(2alpha) (...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Curlewis JD,Tam SP,Lau P,Kusters DH,Barclay JL,Anderson ST,Waters MJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interaction between Sertoli cells and germ cells is likely to be critical for normal development of the testis. We have established and characterized cocultures of neonatal Sertoli cells and gonocytes and have begun to study the physical and functional relationship between these cells in vitro. Cells were isolated fro...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Orth JM,Boehm R

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00