Postnatal morphological changes in rat LHRH neurons correlated with sexual maturation.

abstract：:Serum prolactin was measured in lightly etherized rats between 4 and 5 a.m. and between 11 a.m. and 12 noon at various times after operation in intact rats and rats that had been operated on. Serum prolactin was elevated in the late nocturnal samples from intact rats and this elevation was prevented by pinealectomy. W...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Ronnekleiv OK,McCann SM

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of electrical activity and intracellular Ca(2+) levels were performed in perforated-patch clamped GH(3) cells to determine the contribution of large-conductance calcium-activated K(+) (BK) channels to action potential repolarization and size of the associated Ca(2+) oscillations. By examining the dependen...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Miranda P,de la Peña P,Gómez-Varela D,Barros F

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of neuropeptides to act as precursors for smaller, biologically active fragments is discussed in terms of their biotransformation. This process may involve cleavage of the parent peptide by peptidase enzymes to produce shorter polypeptides with defined biological activity, though other enzymic processes su...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Griffths EC,McDermott JR

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of melatonin and an aqueous extract of bovine pineal glands on adrenal function were studied in pinealectomized, ovariectomized and hypophysectomized rats. Melatonin (50 microgram i.p., twice daily for 1 week) stimulates adrenal 5 alpha-reductase activity in intact animals and after ovariectomy. A correspo...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Ogle TF,Kitay JI

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its traditional role as a circulating vasoactive peptide, vasopressin (VP) has been shown to play significant roles in central cardiovascular processing. The recent description of VP receptors within the subfornical organ (SFO) has suggested this circumventricular organ (CVO) as a potential locus for fe...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Smith PM,Ferguson AV

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of castration and adrenalectomy was studied on vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) concentrations in various brain and peripheral structures of male rats. Castration has no effect on any of the structures studied, whereas 4 weeks adrenalectomy (ADX) decreases VIP concentrations in the hippocampus and increa...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Rotsztejn WH,Besson J,Briaud B,Gagnant L,Rosselin G,Kordon C

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[125I]-neuropeptide Y receptors were characterized in the rat pituitary gland using quantitative autoradiography. Scatchard analysis of saturation isotherms showed high affinity (Kd 8.5 x 10(-11) M) and single class of binding sites (Bmax 0.22 pmol/mg of protein) in the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, with no s...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Torda T,Saavedra JM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pit-1 expression has been reported to be cell-type-specific in the adult human pituitary and in human pituitary adenomas. In contrast, studies of rodent fetal adenohypophysial development as well as mature rodent glands have indicated that the pit-1 mRNA is ubiquitously expressed and the protein is under translational...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Puy LA,Asa SL

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Activation of somatostatin receptors (sstr1-5) by somatostatin and its analogues exerts an inhibitory effect on hormone secretion and provides the basis for the treatment of a range of endocrine diseases such as acromegaly, Cushing's disease and neuroendocrine tumors (NET). The lack of well-characterized com...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Schmid HA,Lambertini C,van Vugt HH,Barzaghi-Rinaudo P,Schäfer J,Hillenbrand R,Sailer AW,Kaufmann M,Nuciforo P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During adult-onset peripheral hypothyroidism, the brain maintains normal levels of thyroid hormone for some time through a mechanism of 'central homeostasis'. Although onset, duration, and termination of such a homeostatic phenomenon have been recently evaluated in rat models, the mechanism behind remains unknown. Dur...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Kundu S,Roy S,De J,Biswas A,Pramanik M,Ray AK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin receptors on lactotroph cells of the anterior pituitary are positively regulated by estradiol. In the present work, we investigated whether estradiol regulation of somatostatin receptors also occurred in the female rat brain. 125I-Tyr0-DTrp8-somatostatin (125I-SRIF: 780 Ci/mM) was used as a ligand. Female...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Slama A,Videau C,Kordon C,Epelbaum J

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of the search for the prolactin-releasing factor (PRF), we noticed that the posterior pituitary contained strong PRF activity and subsequently traced this activity to that of bovine neurophysin-II (NP-II). NP-II prepared in our lab was judged to be a homogeneous preparation according to Sephadex G-75 gel...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Shin SH,Obonsawin MC

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis was tested that corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is involved in the inhibition of gonadotropin secretion during chronic hyperprolactinemia. Two models of hyperprolactinemia were used, namely inoculation with the prolactin (PRL)-secreting tumor 7315b and implantation of isogenic pituitary glands. Gon...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Kooy A,de Greef WJ,Vreeburg JT,Hackeng WH,Ooms MP,Lamberts SW,Weber RF

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine hydroxylase activity in noradrenergic neurons of the locus coeruleus was found to rise in bilaterally adrenalectomized adult mice, with maximum increase of the enzyme activity (52% above control) occurring 7 days after the surgery. No such increase of tyrosine hydroxylase activity was found in dopaminergic ne...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Markey KA,Sze PY

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prolactin-raising antipsychotics, risperidone (antidopaminergic activity), may be associated with low bone mass. On the other hand, risperidone may cause an increase in body weight thought to be favorable for bone. OBJECTIVES:(1) To determine bone remodeling parameters and bone mass in patients with schizop...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Doknic M,Maric NP,Britvic D,Pekic S,Damjanovic A,Miljic D,Stojanovic M,Radojicic Z,Jasovic Gasic M,Popovic V

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found thyroxine 5'-deiodinase in rat posterior pituitary. The isozyme pattern was different in intermediate and neural lobes. The former contained only type I enzyme. In the neural lobe, in euthyroidism only type I was found while in hypothyroidism type II was a prominent form. Since type II 5'-deiodinase has ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Tanaka K,Murakami M,Greer MA

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A significant increase of cell multiplication in inoculated ascitic and solid tumors was demonstrated in both DBA/2 and C57BL/6 mice as well as in Wistar rats after radiofrequency lesions in the median hypothalamus (ventromedial and dorsomedial nuclei; part of arcuate nucleus). The following tests were performed: mito...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Bindoni M,Belluardo N,Marchese AE,Cardile V,Mudò G,Cella S,Laguidara A,Denatale G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parturition is initiated in sheep by an increase in the activity of the fetal hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Prostaglandins, known to augment the activity of this endocrine axis, have long been proposed as involved in the initiation of paturition. We have previously demonstrated that endogenously produced ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Deauseault D,Giroux D,Wood CE

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of endogenous opiate peptides in the mesencephalic central gray (MCG) and their possible interactions with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in the regulation of lordosis behavior was assessed in ovariectomized, estrogen-treated and estrogen-progesterone-treated female rats. Lordosis behavior triggered by...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Sirinathsinghji DJ

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin A immunoreactivity has been localized within the nucleus tractus solitarius and its projections into regions of the hypothalamus such as the paraventricular nucleus. However, the function of activin within the central nervous system is unclear. Because these regions of the brain are involved in the regulation ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Schwall RH,Jakeman LB,Altar CA

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overt Cushing's syndrome is a rare disorder with an annual incidence of 2-3/million of which benign adrenal adenomas account for 0.6/million. The female:male ratio is 3:1. Preliminary data indicate a high proportion of subclinical Cushing's syndrome in certain risk populations such as patients with type 2 diabetes or ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Steffensen C,Bak AM,Rubeck KZ,Jørgensen JO

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin, a biologically active amine, is related to carcinoid syndrome in functioning neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). Telotristat ethyl is a novel inhibitor of the tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH), a key enzyme in the production of serotonin. While its use in patients with carcinoid syndrome and uncontrolled diarrhea unde...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Herrera-Martínez AD,Feelders RA,Van den Dungen R,Dogan-Oruc F,van Koetsveld PM,Castaño JP,de Herder WW,Hofland LJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The studies reported in this paper were undertaken to investigate the effect of chronic (10 day) alcohol consumption on female pituitary-gonadal function. The immature female rat model treated with pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) was used since it results in a highly reproducible luteinizing hormone (LH) surge...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Sundberg DK,Bo WJ,Reilly J

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the neural lobe of the pituitary gland for the presence of receptors for pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and their possible involvement in the regulation of neurosecretion. The presence of PACAP receptors of type I was revealed in the neural lobe, as well as in anterior a...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Lutz-Bucher B,Monnier D,Koch B

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of prolactin secretion by tuberoinfundibular dopamine (DA) neurons appears to be altered in the aged rat: the concentration of prolactin in the serum increases and the activity of the tuberoinfundibular DA neurons decreases. In the young female rat a brief period of stress reduces the tuberoinfundibular...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Demarest KT,Moore KE,Riegle GD

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Plasma chromogranin A (CgA) is the most widely used biochemical biomarker in the diagnostic workup and follow-up of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendo- crine neoplasms (GEP-NENs). Herein, we assessed the clinical utility of CgA in diagnosing and monitoring a large series of GEP-NENs. PATIENTS AND METHODS...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Massironi S,Rossi RE,Casazza G,Conte D,Ciafardini C,Galeazzi M,Peracchi M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin-releasing (PRF) activity was found in Pitressin (a commercial extract from posterior pituitary for vasopressin). Injection of Pitressin into conscious free-moving rats implanted with a permanent atrial indwelling cannula, produced a transient increase in prolactin concentration in the circulation. In order t...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Shin SH

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin exerts important effects on the regulation of food intake and energy expenditure by acting in the brain. Leptin action is mediated by the interaction with a receptor that is alternatively spliced, resulting in at least five different isoforms. The long form (OB-Rb) has a long intracellular domain that is essent...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Burguera B,Couce ME,Long J,Lamsam J,Laakso K,Jensen MD,Parisi JE,Lloyd RV

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to investigate whether the vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) concentration in hypothalamic nuclei, dorsal raphe nucleus (DR) and pituitary lobes of lactating rats changes in physiological situations when prolactin (PRL) secretion is stimulated (suckling) or inhibited (pup separation). ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Chiocchio SR,de las Nieves Parisi M,Vitale ML,Tramezzani JH

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding sites for prolactin were localized and quantified in the female rat brain by in vitro autoradiographic analysis with iodine-125-labeled ovine prolactin. Following incubation, labeled prolactin bound preferentially to the median eminence and choroid plexus of the lateral and third ventricles. The addition of ex...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Barton AC,Lahti RA,Piercey MF,Moore KE

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00