Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in mice reduces weight loss during starvation.

abstract：:Perifused anterior hemipituitaries from one male and 4 female monkeys released GH and PRL in a pulsatile pattern, with mean +/- SE interpulse intervals of 8.2 +/- 0.4 and 8.5 +/- 0.3 min, as determined by a cycle detection computer algorithm. Mean hormone concentrations in the perifusate fractions collected at 2-min i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stewart JK,Clifton DK,Koerker DJ,Rogol AD,Jaffe T,Goodner CJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) antagonize the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) transporter (5-HTT), and are frequently prescribed to children and adolescents to treat depression. However, recent findings of functional serotonergic pathways in bone cells and preliminary clinical evidence demonstrating d...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Warden SJ,Robling AG,Sanders MS,Bliziotes MM,Turner CH

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Djungarian hamster displays photoperiodic variations in gonadal size synchronized to the seasons by the nightly secretion of the pineal hormone melatonin. In short photoperiod (SP), the gonads regress in size, and circulating sex steroids levels decline. Thus, the brain is subject to seasonal variations of both me...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bolborea M,Laran-Chich MP,Rasri K,Hildebrandt H,Govitrapong P,Simonneaux V,Pévet P,Steinlechner S,Klosen P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transient increase in serum progesterone concentrations (to 1 ng/ml for 1-2 days) is observed in the majority of ewes before the first estrous cycle of the breeding season. To determine whether such a brief antecedent rise in progesterone ensures initiation of a full-length cycle by the next LH surge, synthetic GnRH...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Legan SJ,I'Anson H,Fitzgerald BP,Akaydin MS Jr

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and arcuate nucleus (ARC) have reciprocal connections; catabolic metabolic information activates the ARC and inhibits SCN neuronal activity. Little is known about the influence of the SCN on the ARC. Here, we investigated whether the SCN modulated the sensitivity of the ARC to catabol...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Herrera-Moro Chao D,León-Mercado L,Foppen E,Guzmán-Ruiz M,Basualdo MC,Escobar C,Buijs RM

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium vanadate, an agent known to have multiple cellular actions, was studied for its effects on aspects of bone formation in cultures of 21-day-old fetal rat calvariae. Vanadate (0.1-10 microM) stimulated the incorporation of [3H] thymidine into acid-insoluble residues (DNA); the effect appeared after 3 h and was su...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Canalis E

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring and synthetic plant flavonoids, such as EMD 21388, are potent inhibitors of thyroid hormone 5'-deiodinase (5'-D) in vitro, but not when given in vivo, since they are tightly bound by serum transthyretin (TTR). EMD 21388 also inhibits the binding of T4 to human, dog, and rat serum TTR in vitro and w...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lueprasitsakul W,Alex S,Fang SL,Pino S,Irmscher K,Köhrle J,Braverman LE

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although factors that regulate cAMP and steroid production in granulosa cells of hen preovulatory follicles have been well studied, much less is known of the mechanisms that control steroidogenesis in the adjacent thecal layer. These studies were conducted to examine the involvement and interaction of cAMP and protein...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tilly JL,Johnson AL

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over 6 billion pounds per year of the estrogenic monomer bisphenol A (BPA) are used to manufacture polycarbonate plastic products, in resins lining metal cans, in dental sealants, and in blends with other types of plastic products. The ester bond linking BPA molecules in polycarbonate and resins undergoes hydrolysis, ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Welshons WV,Nagel SC,vom Saal FS

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF beta) are crucial autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine modulators of anterior pituitary function. Activins regulate most pituitary cells and lactotropes are targets of TGF beta. Smad2 and Smad3 are two cellular mediators of activin/TGF beta signaling, whereas Smad7 is a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bilezikjian LM,Corrigan AZ,Blount AL,Chen Y,Vale WW

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that the ovary produces a factor that maintains the pituitary in a state of low LHRH responsiveness that must be overcome by the self-priming action of LHRH. To determine the role of inhibin in maintaining low LHRH responsiveness in pituitaries of diestrous female rats, endogenous inhib...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Culler MD

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OT) is a hypothalamic nonapeptide that is synthesized as part of a larger precursor protein that also contains an approximately 10-kDa protein called neurophysin at its C-terminus. This precursor protein is trafficked through the regulated secretory pathway into secretory granules and then axonally transport...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhang BJ,Kusano K,Zerfas P,Iacangelo A,Young WS 3rd,Gainer H

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In songbirds, singing behavior is controlled by a discrete network of interconnected brain nuclei known collectively as the song control system. Both the development of this system and the expression of singing behavior in adulthood are strongly influenced by sex steroid hormones. Although both androgenic and estrogen...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bernard DJ,Bentley GE,Balthazart J,Turek FW,Ball GF

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone is essential for normal proliferation and differentiation of chondrocytes. Thus, untreated congenital hypothyroidism is marked by severe short stature. The monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8) is a highly specific transporter for thyroid hormone. The hallmarks of Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome, caused b...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Abe S,Namba N,Abe M,Fujiwara M,Aikawa T,Kogo M,Ozono K

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoclasts are bone-resorbing cells whose normal function depends in part upon their ability to migrate over the bone surface to initiate new sites of bone resorption. The growth factor/cytokine, colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1), potently stimulates osteoclast motility, in a c-src-dependent fashion. The intracellu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Grey A,Chen Y,Paliwal I,Carlberg K,Insogna K

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of central serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) administration on hypothalamic tuberoinfundibular dopamine neurons and related changes in neuronal activity to circulating PRL levels in two physiological models: 1) pregnant rats expressing (day 8) or not expressing (days 11 and 16) PRL surge...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mathiasen JR,Tomogane H,Voogt JL

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase (D2) is essential for feedback regulation of TSH by T4. We genetically inactivated in vivo D2 in thyrotrophs using a mouse model of Cga-driven cre recombinase. Pituitary D2 activity was reduced 90% in the Cga-cre D2 knockout (KO) mice compared with control Dio2(fl/fl) mice. There wa...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Luongo C,Martin C,Vella K,Marsili A,Ambrosio R,Dentice M,Harney JW,Salvatore D,Zavacki AM,Larsen PR

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compelling evidence indicates a crucial role of prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) in parturition. Both the maternal and fetal sides of the fetal membranes synthesize PGF2α, which exerts effects via the prostaglandin F2α receptor (FP) that is coupled to the activation of protein kinase C (PKC). Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) catalyz...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Guo CM,Kasaraneni N,Sun K,Myatt L

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recently discovered estrogen receptor-beta (ERbeta) is expressed in rodent and human testes. To obtain insight in the physiological role of ERbeta we have investigated the cell type-specific expression pattern of ERbeta messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein in the testis of rats of various ages by in situ hybridization...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： van Pelt AM,de Rooij DG,van der Burg B,van der Saag PT,Gustafsson JA,Kuiper GG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcription factor Stat3 is activated through tyrosine phosphorylation by many cytokines and is a fundamental mediator of their signals. In the mammary gland, Stat3 activity increases sharply shortly after weaning, and involution is delayed in mice, that contain a mutant Stat3 lacking 33 amino acids including th...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Humphreys RC,Bierie B,Zhao L,Raz R,Levy D,Hennighausen L

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relaxin was localized in cells of corpora lutea of pregnant rats at the ultrastructural level using a highly specific antirat relaxin serum and the unlabeled peroxidase-antiperoxidase technique. Electron-dense, membrane-bound granules (maximum diameter, 270 nm), which are present in luteal cells during the last third ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Anderson MB,Sherwood OD

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that CGP 42112 (AT(2) agonist > or =1 nM) markedly reduces catecholamine biosynthesis through AT(2), which is the major angiotensin II (AngII) receptor subtype in cultured porcine chromaffin cells. Also, we have shown that CGP 42112 (> or =1 nM) induces a reduction in cGMP production in...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Takekoshi K,Ishii K,Kawakami Y,Isobe K,Nakai T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of calcium in the angiotensin II- or potassium-mediated increase in aldosterone production was analyzed in isolated glomerulosa cells prepared from bovine adrenal glands. The response to potassium was highly dependent on the extracellular calcium concentration, and a maximal response was observed at 0.5 mM ca...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Foster R,Lobo MV,Rasmussen H,Marusic ET

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.47) catalyzes the conversion of glucose 6-phosphate to 6-phosphogluconolactone within the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum, thereby generating reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate. Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate is a necessary cofactor fo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rogoff D,Ryder JW,Black K,Yan Z,Burgess SC,McMillan DR,White PC

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that catecholamines may directly alter anterior pituitary function. In the present study, an in vitro perifusion system was used to investigate whether catecholamines affect the gonadotrope. Pituitary tissue from castrated ram lambs was incubated in the presence of epinephrine (EPI), norepine...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Swartz SR,Moberg GP

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of the biochemical mechanisms regulating the differentiation of the ovarian androgen-producing cells has been difficult because of the lack of a method for isolating the theca-interstitial cells (TIC) from the granulosa and other cell types. We report here a simple, rapid and reproducible method for obtainin...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Magoffin DA,Erickson GF

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study employed the dehydroepiandrosterone (DHA) loading test to determine if the placenta in baboons remains functional following fetectomy. A bolus iv injection of 100 mg DHA was given to 4 baboons prior to and at various intervals following fetectomy at midgestation. Blood samples were withdrawn over a 4...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Albrecht ED,Pepe GJ

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remodeling of maternal spiral arteries during pregnancy requires a subpopulation of extravillous cytotrophoblasts (EVTs) to differentiate into endovascular EVTs. Activin A, which is abundantly expressed at the maternal-fetal interface, has been shown to promote trophoblast invasion, but its role in endovascular differ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Li Y,Zhu H,Klausen C,Peng B,Leung PC

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was aimed at testing the hypothesis that different forms of fibronectin (FN), produced as a consequence of the alternative splicing of the precursor messenger RNA, play specific roles during development of the ovarian follicle. In particular, we were interested in determining the effect of the ED-I (also te...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Colman-Lerner A,Fischman ML,Lanuza GM,Bissell DM,Kornblihtt AR,Barañao JL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that ANF neurons of the hypothalamus are dopamine sensitive, and the catecholamine may exert a direct stimulatory or inhibitory effect on the neurons mediated through D1 or D2 receptors, respectively, in a manner related to the differential dopamine binding sensitivity of the two receptor subt...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lee D,Huang W,Copolov DL,Lim AT

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00