Thyroid hormone receptor-α gene knockout mice are protected from diet-induced hepatic insulin resistance.

abstract：:The issue of what starts the circadian clock ticking was addressed by studying the developmental appearance of the daily rhythm in the expression of two genes in the zebrafish pineal gland that are part of the circadian clock system. One encodes the photopigment exorhodopsin and the other the melatonin synthesizing en...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Vuilleumier R,Besseau L,Boeuf G,Piparelli A,Gothilf Y,Gehring WG,Klein DC,Falcón J

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenals express a high level of neutral cholesteryl ester hydrolase (CEH) activity, and male rats have greater activity than females; however, the identity of the enzyme(s) responsible for this activity and the basis for the sex differences are unknown. Using mice in which hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) was inactivat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kraemer FB,Shen WJ,Natu V,Patel S,Osuga J,Ishibashi S,Azhar S

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were made unilaterally cryptorchid by cutting the gubernaculum testis at birth. At 100 days age, the rats were injected with 600 IU/kg hCG. A biphasic testosterone response was seen in the scrotal (Scr) testis in response to hCG, with maxima at 1 h and 3 days after injection. The acute peak of testosterone was of...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Huhtaniemi I,Bergh A,Nikula H,Damber JE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to test whether rat placental lactogen, proposed to be inhibitory for endogenous rhythmic PRL secretion during pregnancy, is also inhibitory for a neurally mediated PRL response to exogenous stimulation, i.e. suckling. Pregnant lactating rats were used as the model in this study. B...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yogev L,Terkel J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfonylureas are drugs widely used in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. In addition to their pancreatic effect of stimulating insulin secretion, many studies suggest that sulfonylureas also have extrapancreatic actions. We have previously reported that gliclazide, a second-generation sulfonylur...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rodríguez E,Pulido N,Romero R,Arrieta F,Panadero A,Rovira A

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2,5-Hexanedione (2,5-HD) exposure in the rat produces irreversible testicular atrophy, a model of human male infertility that can be used for mechanistic and therapeutic studies. Following testicular injury by 2,5-HD, stem cell factor (SCF), a Sertoli cell-derived growth factor that binds the c-kit receptor on spermat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Blanchard KT,Lee J,Boekelheide K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D receptor (VDR) null mice develop hypocalcemia, hyperparathyroidism, rickets, osteomalacia and alopecia. Normalization of mineral ion homeostasis prevents all of these abnormalities except alopecia. Hair reconstitution assays, performed in athymic nude mice, demonstrate that the lack of VDR in keratinocytes l...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chen CH,Sakai Y,Demay MB

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Nitric oxide (NO) has emerged as an intracellular and intercellular messenger in a number of biological systems. In the present study, we demonstrated that NO was produced by cultured rat Leydig cells, and that inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) messenger RNA (mRNA) was expressed in Leydig cells. NO was measured a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tatsumi N,Fujisawa M,Kanzaki M,Okuda Y,Okada H,Arakawa S,Kamidono S

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) was measured by RIA in the hypophysial portal blood of rats after total hypophysectomy. The mean (+/- SE) VIP concentrations were 1332 +/- 171 pg/ml (range, 300-3868 pg/ml) under urethane anesthesia and 1735 +/- 707 pg/ml under pentobarbital anesthesia. The concentrations of VIP...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Shimatsu A,Kato Y,Matsushita N,Katakami H,Yanaihara N,Imura H

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of the polycationic antibiotic, neomycin, on the function of dispersed bovine parathyroid cells. Neomycin caused a reversible, dose-dependent inhibition of low calcium (Ca++)-stimulated PTH release, with half-maximal inhibition at 30 microM. Maximal inhibition (with 200 microM neomycin) was not...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Brown EM,Butters R,Katz C,Kifor O

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we report that ACTH induces a transient chloride current. The lack of correlation between ACTH-induced cAMP production and amplitude of the Cl- current, as well as the absence of stimulation by forskolin or 8Br-cAMP indicated that the ACTH-induced current was not cAMP-dependent. We explored the p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chorvátová A,Gendron L,Bilodeau L,Gallo-Payet N,Payet MD

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), a putative intermediary in the ovulatory process, is a potent stimulator of ovarian PG biosynthesis. In this communication, we examine the possibility that this IL-1 effect reflects in part the induction of arachidonic acid mobilization by phospholip...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kol S,Ruutiainen-Altman K,Ben-Shlomo I,Payne DW,Ando M,Adashi EY

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of amino acid substitutions introduced to the third alpha-helix in bovine GH (bGH) was investigated. A GH analog (bGH-M8), in which three amino acids were substituted to form an idealized amphiphilic alpha-helix, possessed the same specific binding affinity as wild-type bGH to cell membranes prepared from 3...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Okada S,Chen WY,Wiehl P,Kelder B,Goodman HM,Guller S,Sonenberg M,Kopchick JJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SH2B1 is an SH2 domain-containing adaptor protein that plays a key role in the regulation of energy and glucose metabolism in both rodents and humans. Genetic deletion of SH2B1 in mice results in obesity and type 2 diabetes. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the SH2B1 loci and chromosomal deletions of the SH2B1 loci ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Morris DL,Cho KW,Rui L

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary vitamin D-resistant rickets (HVDRR) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in the vitamin D receptor (VDR). We studied a young Saudi Arabian girl who exhibited the typical clinical features of HVDRR, but without alopecia. Analysis of her VDR gene revealed a homozygous T to C mutation in exon ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Malloy PJ,Xu R,Peng L,Peleg S,Al-Ashwal A,Feldman D

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of GH, PRL, and proopiomelanocortin (POMC) by the adult ovine pituitary was examined by culturing intact tissue explants in vitro and analyzing newly synthesized proteins by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Spots on autoradiographs of two-dimensional gels were identified by comigration with known standar...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Miller WL,Leisti S,Johnson LK

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunomodulatory role for LHRH was suggested when we reported the presence of immunoactive and bioactive LHRH and its mRNA in rat splenic and thymic lymphocytes. In this paper we report that human peripheral T-cells as well as its subsets CD4+ and CD8+ contained immunoactive and bioactive LHRH. Furthermore, analysi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Azad N,La Paglia N,Jurgens KA,Kirsteins L,Emanuele NV,Kelley MR,Lawrence AM,Mohagheghpour N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat PTH molecule contains five sequence differences from either the bovine or the human hormone within the biologically active 1-34 region. A synthetic rat 1-34 peptide was tested for activity by in vitro activation of canine and rat renal adenylate cyclase and binding to canine renal membrane receptors. The mean ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Keutmann HT,Griscom AW,Nussbaum SR,Reiner BF,Goud AN,Potts JT Jr,Rosenblatt M

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative thyroid cell transplantation was used to evaluate the reestablishment of thyroid function in surgically thyroidectomized rats. Donor thyroid glands were enzymatically dispersed, and the cells were quantified, serially diluted, and inoculated into the sc fat pads of syngeneic recipient rats 1 day after sur...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Domann FE,Mitchen JM,Clifton KH

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial (ANP), brain (BNP), and C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) belong to a family of hormones important in blood pressure and sodium homeostasis. Expression of ANP has been reported in embryo hearts, but BNP and CNP expression during development has not been described. We used in situ hybridization to identify the si...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cameron VA,Aitken GD,Ellmers LJ,Kennedy MA,Espiner EA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male rats, kept under a lighting condition of 14-h light, 10-h dark, were subjected to scheduled feeding regimens. Food was available either in the early light phase or the early dark phase. The 24-h rhythms of serum corticosterone and of N-acetylserotonin (NAS) and melatonin (MT) in the pineal and serum were determin...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ho AK,Burns TG,Grota LJ,Brown GM

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of continuous high GH levels on GH signal transduction through the GH receptor (GHR)/Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)/signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) pathway as well as the desensitization of this pathway by suppressors of cytokine signaling (SOCS) were studied in transgenic mice overexpres...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： González L,Miquet JG,Sotelo AI,Bartke A,Turyn D

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) are a powerful approach for targeted genome editing and have been proved to be effective in several organisms. In this study, we reported that TALENs can induce somatic mutations in Nile tilapia, an important species for worldwide aquaculture, with reliably high...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li MH,Yang HH,Li MR,Sun YL,Jiang XL,Xie QP,Wang TR,Shi HJ,Sun LN,Zhou LY,Wang DS

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ewes were treated systemically during the periovulatory period with the antihistamines diphenhydramine (H1-receptor antagonist) and(or) cimetidine (H2-receptor antagonist). None of the treatments prevented ovulation. However, the combination of drugs inhibited subsequent function of the corpus luteum (CL) as assessed ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Halterman SD,Murdoch WJ

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously have described molecular mechanisms converging at the Nur response element-signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) composite site responsible for synergistic activation of the proopiomelanocortin (POMC) gene promoter by leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and CRH. In this study, we asked how...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Latchoumanin O,Mynard V,Devin-Leclerc J,Dugué MA,Bertagna X,Catelli MG

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The participation of growth factors in wound healing and tissue repair has been well established. Previous studies demonstrated that the expression of keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) was greatly elevated shortly after injury and that topical application of KGF accelerated healing. Steroidal antiinflammatory agents, s...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chedid M,Hoyle JR,Csaky KG,Rubin JS

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether bisphenol A (BPA) has adverse effects on cardiovascular functions in CD-1 mice and define sex-specific modes of BPA action in the heart. Dams and analyzed progeny were maintained on a defined diet containing BPA (0.03, 0.3, 3, 30, or 300 ppm) that resulted in BPA exposure...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Belcher SM,Gear RB,Kendig EL

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of alpha- and beta-subunits of human TSH (hTSH) were studied by investigating the inhibitory effects of monoclonal antibodies on the biological activity of hTSH. Four monoclonal antibodies directed toward different epitopes on the beta-subunit (hTSH beta) inhibited completely the receptor binding of hTSH to ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Endo Y,Tetsumoto T,Nagasaki H,Kashiwai T,Tamaki H,Amino N,Miyai K

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a range of muscle disorders, including myalgia, muscle weakness, and falls. In humans, polymorphisms of the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene are associated with variations in muscle strength, and in mice, genetic ablation of VDR results in muscle fiber atrophy and motor deficits. H...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Girgis CM,Mokbel N,Cha KM,Houweling PJ,Abboud M,Fraser DR,Mason RS,Clifton-Bligh RJ,Gunton JE

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00