Acute effects of exercise at low altitude (350 meters below sea level) on hormones of the anterior pituitary & cortisol in athletes.

abstract：:The effect of clomiphene on nuclear estrogen receptors of the Fallopian tube during ovum transport in the rabbit has been studied. Nuclear binding capacity was observed in ampulla (A), ampullary-isthmic junction (AIJ), isthmus (I), uterine-isthmic junction (UIJ) and uterus (U). Receptor concentration decreased in all ...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Gupta JS,Roy SK

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now well documented that obesity is associated with a chronic low-grade inflammatory state. Levels of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, a marker of systemic inflammation and a mediator of atherothrombotic disease, have been shown to correlate with cardiovascular disease risk. Our objective was to evaluate the...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Coban E,Sari R

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progesterone (P) given intramuscularly increases renal sodium excretion. We tested the in vitro capacity of P to bind to the human mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) with a reticulocyte lysate system and Ps transactivation potency in transfected CV-1 cells. Progesterone binds with higher affinity to the MR than aldostero...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Quinkler M,Diederich S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Y1 cells derived from mouse tumor zona fasciculata cells (ZF) were used to assess the importance of extracellular (EC) calcium availability via voltage-dependent calcium channels (VDCC) on steroidogenesis. The steroidogenic response to ACTH was investigated in the presence of blockers known to affect both calcium and ...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Coyne MD,Wang G,Lemos JR

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two CYP21 genes, the active CYP21 and the pseudogene, CYP21P, also pairs of duplicated genes including the XA, XB, XB-S; YA, YB; and ZA, ZB are arranged in tandem next to the serum complement C4 genes (C4A and C4B). In this report, we have analyzed the influence of some DNA sequences within the C4A/CYP21P region on th...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Chang SF,Cheng CL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies from our laboratory have shown that human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), human luteinizing hormone (hLH), and CG-like proteins from Xanthomonas maltophilia (xCG) and Candida albicans (CaCGLP) induce Candida albicans transition from blastospores to hyphal forms. Xanthomonas maltophilia CG-like protein (xC...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Caticha O,Odell WD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify the roles of cholinergic and serotonergic neurotransmission in the mediation of exercise-induced growth hormone (GH) release, normal young volunteers of both sexes were studied. Exercise was for 20 minutes at 800 kpm for the men and 500 kpm for the women. Pretreatment with 0.4 mg atropine 1 hour pr...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Brillon D,Nabil N,Jacobs LS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed on 18 postmenopausal female volunteers in order to examine changes in sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC), total cholesterol (TC) and serum triglyceride (TG) levels in a period of four months of moderate physical exercise. While SHBG decreased signi...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Caballero MJ,Maynar M

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Evidence has shown that low thyroid hormone levels may lead to worse prognosis including a higher mortality rate in patients with heart failure (HF). Thyroid replacement increases cardiac output and exercise performance without causing significant adverse events. The purpose of this study is to compare lev...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Yang T,Ruegger M,Colavecchia AC,Sadhu A,Patham B,Tatara A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prostate gland of humans and other animals has the unique function of accumulating and secreting extraordinarily high levels of citrate. The prostate secretory epithelial cells synthesize citrate which, due to a limiting mitochondrial (m-) aconitase, accumulates rather than being oxidized. Thus citrate is essentia...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Costello LC,Liu Y,Zou J,Franklin RB

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal serum concentrations of prolactin (PRL) and the elevation of serum PRL concentrations induced by the serotonergic agents, quipazine and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) were suppressed in rats treated acutely with dexamethasone. Acute dexamethasone treatment did not alter the stimulation of PRL release produced by th...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Passaro EA,Meltzer HY,Gudelsky GA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the glucocorticoid receptor population of skeletal muscle and liver from dystrophic and control mice was performed. These data demonstrate that the cytosol of muscles from dystrophic animals contain a significantly higher concentration of glucocorticoid receptors (approximately 100%) relative to the cyt...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： DuBois DC,Almon RR

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-promoting phorbol esters are believed to affect cell functions by activating a Ca+2-and lipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C). 12-0-Tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) inhibits LH stimulation of progesterone (P) accumulation in rat granulosa cells. To determine the mechanisms by which TPA inhibits...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Kawai Y,Clark MR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is controversy concerning the effects of progestins on bone. Norethindrone acetate (NETA) is synthetic progesterone that also has estrogenic and androgenic effects. We tested its effects on hormone levels, lipids and biochemical markers of bone turnover in postmenopausal women who were on estrogen replacement th...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Onobrakpeya OA,Fall PM,Willard A,Chakravarthi P,Hansen A,Raisz LG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sutherlandia frutescens (Cancer bush), a Southern African indigenous plant, is traditionally used to treat stress related maladies linked to the endocrine system. Extracts of the shrub were used to investigate the claimed stress-relieving properties of the shrub. Dysregulation of the stress response is associated with...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Prevoo D,Smith C,Swart P,Swart AC

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:StAR increases the flow of cholesterol from the outer to inner mitochondrial membrane (OMM to IMM), but its mechanism of action remains unclear. MLN64 is a 445 amino acid protein of unknown function that has four N-terminal transmembrane domains and whose C-terminal domain from 218-445 is 37% identical to StAR. N-62 S...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Bose HS,Baldwin MA,Miller WL

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred micrograms of synthetic thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) were given intravenously to 4 normal men and 4 normal women, and four weeks later, 1000 micrograms of TRH were administered intravenously to 4 of the 8 individuals and oxytocin (OT) was measured in plasma on both occasions. Following injection of...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Amico JA,Johnston JM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total collagen and its soluble fraction as well as water content were determined in late pregnancy in the uterine cervix in a population of 36 rats treated with progesterone (n = 10), mifepristone (n = 13) and controls (n = 13). In both treated groups there were no signs of delivery on the 21st day of gestation. Water...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Bieńkiewicz A

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several factors including genetic and environmental play a role in the development of obesity and the metabolic syndrome. The transgenic mouse overexpressing 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11beta-HSD) develops visceral obesity. However, it remains unclear how a ubiquitously expressed 11beta-HSD1 enzyme affects a...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Agarwal AK

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study we demonstrated a significant increase of CD5+ B subset in patients with Graves' disease (GD) compared with normal controls. The aim of this study was to compare the percentage of CD5+ B and CD5- B cells in GD with that in different forms of autoimmune and non immune-mediated thyroid diseases. Seve...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Afeltra A,Ferri GM,Amoroso A,Leri O,Pellegrino C,Guido F,Garzia P,Paggi A

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work was to study if the alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) was involved in activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis (PAA) in rats. The hormone increased plasma corticosterone (CORT) level, and induced an anxiogenic response as indicated by results from the elevated plus-maze test. Intracereb...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Vecsernyés M,Biró E,Gardi J,Julesz J,Telegdy G

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established cell lines from adrenal tumors of transgenic mice harboring the large T-antigen of simian virus 40 under the control of the adrenocortical specific promoter of the scavenger aldose reductase-like akr1b7 gene. Mass spectrometry analyses of serum-supplemented or serum-free culture media showed that ATC1 l...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Ragazzon B,Lefrançois-Martinez AM,Val P,Tournaire C,Berger M,Gachancard-Bouya JL,Bègue RJ,Veyssière G,Martinez A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: Transthyretin (TTR) is a protein with a growing number of biological functions in addition to its well-established binding and circulatory transport of thyroxine, and indirect retinoid transport through interaction with retinol-binding protein. Misfolded and aggregated wild-type and mutant TTRs are involved i...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Fong VH,Wong S,Jintaridhi P,Vieira A

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the current investigation was to study adrenomedullary and glycemic responses to stress in soft-shelled turtles, Lissemys p. punctata. Dehydration (7 days) and formalin (formaldehyde 1%, 0.1 mL/100 g body wt. daily for 7 days) stress-stimulated adrenomedullary activity at histological (by increasing t...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Ray PP,Sarkar S,Chaudhuri-Sengupta S,Maiti BR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of cAMP (as the dibutyryl compound) to a primary culture of mouse Leydig cells caused the accumulation of a protein, i(b), with the same dependence on cAMP concentration as the increase in testosterone synthesis. Stimulation of both protein i(b) and testosterone production were inhibited by cycloheximide. Add...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Pon LA,Epstein LF,Orme-Johnson NR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was the aim of this study to test for a possible effect of the new non ergot dopamine agonist CV 205-502 on plasma growth hormone (GH) concentrations in acromegaly. 10 acromegalic patients received a single oral dose of 150 micrograms CV 205-502 after an overnight fast. As a control group 7 acromegalic patients und...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Svoboda T,Kotzmann H,Clodi M,Bernecker P,Geyer G,Luger A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It has been suggested that the changes in hormone levels that occur with menopause and aging are related to loss of muscle mass. However, the role of gonadotropins in this process is unknown. OBJECTIVES:To analyze the relationship between follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) and l...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： García-Martín A,Reyes-García R,García-Castro JM,Muñoz-Garach A,Escobar-Jiménez F,Muñoz-Torres M

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This retrospective and observational study aimed to establish whether any relationship exists between the values of serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and those of the mean platelet volume (MPV) in a large cohort of older euthyroid Italian subjects. MATERIALS AND METHOD:The study population was represente...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Lippi G,Danese E,Montagnana M,Nouvenne A,Meschi T,Borghi L

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitated serial serum beta-hydroxybutyrate (beta-OHB) levels using the Ketosite method in 9 children with IDDM who were treated for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and compared them to urinary ketone measurements by dipstick. Persistent elevations of serum beta-OHB were seen in six patients when the urine became cle...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Nadgir UM,Silver FL,MacGillivray MH

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal computed tomography with determination of Hounsfield units has proved to be sensitive and specific in the differential diagnosis of benign vs. malign adrenal lesions. On the other hand, computed tomography may fail in patients with small adrenal masses of less than 1.0 cm. However, especially in patients with ...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Willenberg HS,Mansmann G,Fritzen R,Schott M,Feldkamp J,Schulte HM,Scherbaum WA,Bornstein SR

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00