Inhibitory GH receptor extracellular domain monoclonal antibodies: three-dimensional epitope mapping.

abstract：:The effect of active and passive immunization with luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) on serum LH and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) levels and the ultrastructure of the pituitary gonadotrophs was investigated in castrated male rats. Two weeks after castration, the animals were immunized with Glu1-LHRH c...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Arimura A,Shino M,de la Cruz KG,Rennels EG,Schally AV

更新日期：1976-07-01 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：:Smoltification is a transformation that occurs in some species of salmon, during which solitary fish in fresh water become schooling fish and migrate to the sea. This process is accompanied by large increases in plasma T4. T4 secretion rate and other parameters of T4 metabolism in juvenile coho salmon were estimated b...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Specker JL,DiStefano JJ 3rd,Grau EG,Nishioka RS,Bern HA

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PRL) is a vertebrate hormone with diverse actions in osmoregulation, metabolism, reproduction, and in growth and development. Osmoregulation is fundamental to maintaining the functional structure of the macromolecules that conduct the business of life. In teleost fish, PRL plays a critical role in osmoregul...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yamaguchi Y,Moriyama S,Lerner DT,Grau EG,Seale AP

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In young adult female rats, the patterns of inhibin subunit mRNA expression during the estrous cycle are regulated by cyclic changes in gonadotropin secretion and follicular development. Since there are distinct alterations in profiles of both hormone secretion and folliculogenesis during the reproductive lifespan of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Jih MH,Lu JK,Wan YJ,Wu TC

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of hypothalamic histaminergic neurons in the stress-induced release of peripheral catecholamines was studied in conscious, freely moving male rats. Blood samples were obtained via a catheter in a femoral artery. Intracerebroventricular infusion of histamine (HA; 30 micrograms) increased the plasma conc...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Knigge U,Matzen S,Warberg J

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clonal cell line (44-2C) which synthesizes and secretes somatostatin, neurotensin, calcitonin (CT), and CT gene-related peptide and transiently expresses c-fos was used to characterize the mechanism of action of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). bFGF had two modes of action: 1) short term incubation of 44-2C ce...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zeytin FN,Rusk SF,Raymond V,Mandell AJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nuclear receptor steroidogenic factor 1/adrenal 4 binding protein (SF-1/Ad4BP) is an essential regulator of endocrine development and function, and the expression of the corresponding gene (sf-1/ad4bp) is precisely regulated in a time- and tissue-dependent manner. We previously demonstrated that the basal promoter...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hoivik EA,Bjanesoy TE,Mai O,Okamoto S,Minokoshi Y,Shima Y,Morohashi K,Boehm U,Bakke M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Childhood obesity increases the risk of adult obesity and diabetes, suggesting that early overnutrition permanently programs altered energy and glucose homeostasis. In the present studies, we used a mouse model to investigate whether early overnutrition increases susceptibility to obesity and insulin resistance in res...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Glavas MM,Kirigiti MA,Xiao XQ,Enriori PJ,Fisher SK,Evans AE,Grayson BE,Cowley MA,Smith MS,Grove KL

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing international interest in how environmental conditions experienced during development can shape adult phenotypes and the extent to which such induced changes are adaptive. One physiological system that links an individual to changes in environmental circumstances during development is the hypothalamic...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Spencer KA,Evans NP,Monaghan P

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly discovered kisspeptin (metastin), encoded by the Kiss1/KISS1 gene, is considered as a major gatekeeper of puberty through the regulation of GnRH. In the present study, we cloned a novel kisspeptin gene (kiss2) in the zebrafish Danio rerio and the medaka Oryzias latipes, which encodes a sequence of 125 and 115 am...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kitahashi T,Ogawa S,Parhar IS

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the effects of a new synthetic inhibitor of mammalian tissue collagenase, CI-1 (N-[3-N-(benzyloxycarbonyl)amino-1-(R)carboxypropyl]L-leucyl-O-methyl-L- tyrosine N-methylamide; G. D. Searle SC 40827), and a general metalloproteinase inhibitor, 1,10-phenanthroline, on ovulation, as judged by the observa...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Brännström M,Woessner JF Jr,Koos RD,Sear CH,LeMaire WJ

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased toxicant exposure and resultant environmentally induced diseases are a tradeoff of industrial productivity. Dioxin [2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)], a ubiquitous byproduct, is associated with a spectrum of diseases including endometriosis, a common, chronic disease in women. TCDD activates cytoch...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Khan Z,Zheng Y,Jones TL,Delaney AA,Correa LF,Shenoy CC,Khazaie K,Daftary GS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ACTH produced a 75% increase in pregnenolone biosynthesis from endogenous precursors in isolated cells prepared from the rat Snell adrenocortical carcinoma 494. On the addition of 24- and 25-hydroxycholesterol to the tumor cells, the rate of pregnenolone synthesis increased 10-fold but was insensitive to the presence ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mason JI,Robidoux WF

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether altered noradrenergic activation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis contributes to the attenuated neuroendocrine response to stress observed during lactation, the effect of intracerebroventricular injection of the alpha1-agonist methoxamine (100 microg) was compared between virgin and...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Windle RJ,Brady MM,Kunanandam T,Da Costa AP,Wilson BC,Harbuz M,Lightman SL,Ingram CD

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduced cellular immune responses and altered cytokine production by cells from mice exposed to thermal injury are minimized if dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is administered after experimental burn injury in mice. An analysis of similar tests of immune function developed by mice given the antiglucocorticoid, 17 beta-h...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Araneo B,Daynes R

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differentiation of endometrial stromal cells into decidual cells is a prerequisite for successful embryo implantation. Our previous studies in the mouse have shown that bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2), a morphogen belonging to the TGFβ superfamily, is essential for this differentiation process. BMP2 is markedly in...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li Q,Kannan A,Das A,Demayo FJ,Hornsby PJ,Young SL,Taylor RN,Bagchi MK,Bagchi IC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thyroid hormone (TH) analog eprotirome (KB2115) was developed to lower cholesterol through selective activation of the TH receptor (TR) β1 in the liver. Interestingly, eprotirome shows low uptake in nonhepatic tissues, explaining its lipid-lowering action without adverse extrahepatic thyromimetic effects. Clinical...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kersseboom S,van Gucht ALM,van Mullem A,Brigante G,Farina S,Carlsson B,Donkers JM,van de Graaf SFJ,Peeters RP,Visser TJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological concentrations of L-T4 were found previously to stimulate Ca2+-ATPase activity in vitro in reticulocyte membranes from female rabbits and to inhibit this enzyme in reticulocyte membranes from males. In these previous studies, preincubation of intact cells or ghosts with testosterone (5 X 10(-11) M) conve...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lawrence WD,Osawa YM,Davis PJ,Blas SD

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogens have been shown to have positive and negative effects on anxiety and depressive-like behaviors, perhaps explained by the existence of two distinct estrogen receptor (ER) systems, ERalpha and ERbeta. The ERbeta agonist, diarylpropionitrile (DPN) has been shown to have anxiolytic properties in rats. DPN exists...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Weiser MJ,Wu TJ,Handa RJ

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the involvement of the cAMP pathway in the regulation of beta TC1 cell growth with the phosphodiesterase inhibitor 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) and the activator of adenylate cyclase forskolin. We examined the effect of the increase in cAMP content on the serum-induced resumption of the cell cycle of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lavergne C,Breant B,Rosselin G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PRL secretion in several physiological and experimental conditions, including early pregnancy, is linked to the daily photoperiod. The aim of this study was to examine the antepartum increase in PRL secretion for evidence of a circadian pattern of release, as seen during early pregnancy. During the last 3 days of preg...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Grattan DR,Averill RL

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization studies of sheep, goats, and rodents indicated that kisspeptin (KP), neurokinin B (NKB), and dynorphin A (DYN) are extensively colocalized in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, thus providing a basis for the KP/NKB/DYN (KNDy) neuron concept; in both sexes, KNDy neu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hrabovszky E,Sipos MT,Molnár CS,Ciofi P,Borsay BÁ,Gergely P,Herczeg L,Bloom SR,Ghatei MA,Dhillo WS,Liposits Z

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete hypothalamic deafferentation, either limited to the median eminence, arcuate nucleus, and basal parts of ventromedial nuclei, or comprising ventromedial nuclei and dorsomedial hypothalamus as well reduced considerably the rise of immunoassayable serum TSH in adult male rats rendered hypothyroid by administrat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hefco E,Krulich L,Aschenbrenner JE

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An estrogen (E2)-dependent 90,000-92,000 M(r) protein is synthesized and released by the sheep oviduct in a temporally and regionally specific manner during the first few days of pregnancy, where it associates with the embryo. The present study was undertaken to further define the nature of this protein and its regula...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： DeSouza MM,Murray MK

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the regulation of expression of the TSH receptor (TSHR) in extrathyroidal tissues, the level of TSHR messenger RNA (mRNA) and TSH-dependent signal transduction were determined in isolated rat adipocytes and cultured preadipocytes. The epididymal, sc, and perirenal, but not the interscapular brown adipos...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Haraguchi K,Shimura H,Lin L,Endo T,Onaya T

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that sexually dimorphic neural regions are organized by steroid hormones during development. In many species, neonatal males are exposed to more testosterone than their female littermates, and ultimately it is the estradiol, produced by aromatization of testosterone, that affects sexual differen...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bodo C,Rissman EF

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3) is the major circulating carrier protein for IGF, and also acts as a potent antiproliferative agent in various cell types. Recently, IGFBP-3 was reported to mediate high glucose-induced apoptosis in mesangial cells and podocytes. In this study, we investigated the role of IGFBP-3 in hig...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yoo EG,Lee WJ,Kim JH,Chae HW,Hyun SE,Kim DH,Kim HS,Oh Y

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas the stimulatory effect of interleukin-6 (IL-6) on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is well established, its mode of action in this axis has yet to be fully elucidated. To further study the role of IL-6 in the HPA axis, we compared the expression of IL-6 messenger RNA (mRNA) in the rat hypothalamus...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Muramami N,Fukata J,Tsukada T,Kobayashi H,Ebisui O,Segawa H,Muro S,Imura H,Nakao K

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kisspeptin, neurokinin B (NKB) and dynorphin A are coexpressed in a population of neurons in the arcuate nucleus (ARC), termed KNDy neurons, which were recently recognized as important elements for the generation of GnRH pulses. However, the topographic distribution of these peptides and their regulated expression by ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Overgaard A,Ruiz-Pino F,Castellano JM,Tena-Sempere M,Mikkelsen JD

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00