Role of atrial natriuretic factor in renin release.

abstract：:The distribution and density of selectively labeled mu-, delta-, and kappa-opioid binding sites were examined by in vitro radioautography in the hypothalamus of normal, estradiol valerate (EV)-injected, and estradiol (E2)-implanted female rats. Hypothalamic beta-endorphin concentration was also examined by RIA in thes...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Desjardins GC,Beaudet A,Brawer JR

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T(4) must be activated by its monodeiodination to T(3) by type 1 or 2 iodothyronine deiodinase (D1 and D2). Recent studies show that despite an approximately 2000-fold higher Michaelis constant (K(m); T(4)) for D1 than for D2 using dithiothreitol (DTT) as cofactor, D1 expressed in intact cells produces T(3) at free T(...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Goemann IM,Gereben B,Harney JW,Zhu B,Maia AL,Larsen PR

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flow cytometry was used to separate and identify Sertoli and germ cell populations in primary rat testicular cultures derived from animals of different ages on the basis of cell size and DNA and lipid content. Multiparameter fluorescent evaluation of each cell preparation resulted in the assignment of specific stainin...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Woodruff TK,Borree J,Attie KM,Cox ET,Rice GC,Mather JP

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amount of corticosterone bound to proteins in the adenohypophysis and dorsal hippocampus was studied concurrently with the plasma ACTH concentration in 4-week adrenalectomized male rats under steady-state conditions achieved by infusing the steroid at a constant rate for 45 min. Corticosterone binding was measured...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rotsztejn WH,Normand M,Lalonde J,Fortier C

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a type of cDNA for a functional glandular kallikrein, designated as mouse Klk21 (mKlk21), from the adult mouse testis cDNA library. mKlk21 was expressed in the kidney, submaxillary glands, and testis of the mouse. In the testis, mKlk21 mRNA was detectable at 4 wk of postnatal development and became more...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Matsui H,Takahashi T

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local release of TGF-beta during times of high bone turnover leads to elevated levels within the bone microenvironment, and we have shown that TGF-beta suppresses osteoclast apoptosis. Therefore, understanding the influences of TGF-beta on bone resorbing osteoclasts is critical to the design of therapies to reduce exc...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ruan M,Pederson L,Bradley EW,Bamberger AM,Oursler MJ

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

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：:The present studies investigated whether insulin inhibits the stimulatory effect of dexamethasone (DEX) on angiotensinogen (ANG) gene expression and induction of hypertrophy in rat immortalized renal proximal tubular cells (IRPTCs) in a high-glucose milieu. Rat IRPTCs were cultured in monolayer. ANG and ANG mRNA expre...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhang SL,Chen X,Wei CC,Filep JG,Tang SS,Ingelfinger JR,Chan JS

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of ovarian follicles undergo atresia through a mechanism involving apoptotic cell death. Although GnRH and its agonists have been shown to suppress ovarian growth and differentiation in hypophysectomized rats, studies on the induction of follicle atresia by GnRH are contradictory. In the present study, th...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Billig H,Furuta I,Hsueh AJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously demonstrated that the mitochondrial peripheral-type benzodiazepine receptor (PBR) is coupled to hormone-activated steroidogenesis by regulating the intramitochondrial cholesterol transport, the rate-determining step of steroid biosynthesis. In the present study we examined whether PBR is the site of horm...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Boujrad N,Gaillard JL,Garnier M,Papadopoulos V

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurons that produce kisspeptin play a critical role in reproduction. However, understanding the molecular physiology of kisspeptin neurons has been limited by the lack of an in vivo marker for those cells. Here, we report the development of a Kiss1-CreGFP knockin mouse, wherein the endogenous Kiss1 promoter directs t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gottsch ML,Popa SM,Lawhorn JK,Qiu J,Tonsfeldt KJ,Bosch MA,Kelly MJ,Rønnekleiv OK,Sanz E,McKnight GS,Clifton DK,Palmiter RD,Steiner RA

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive neurophysin (Np) is demonstrated by the immunoperoxidase technique not only within neurones of the classical hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system, but also in extrahypothalamic perikarya and fibers. Np-positive perikarya are found in the triangular nucleus of the septum. Np fibers join the stria terminal...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sofroniew MV,Weindl A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Decidualization of the endometrial stroma in the rat gives rise to two different cell populations, located either mesometrially or antimesometrially in the uterus. We have previously shown that the rat decidua is the site of production and action of a PRL-like hormone. In this investigation we examined, using reverse ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gu Y,Srivastava RK,Clarke DL,Linzer DI,Gibori G

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse fibroblast cell lines which secrete bovine (b) GH have been generated. This was accomplished by cotransforming mouse L cells (thymidine kinase-negative [TK-] and adenine phosphoribosyl transferase-negative [APRT-]) with DNA molecules encoding the Rous sarcoma virus-long-terminal repeat and bGH genes along with t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Leung FC,Jones B,Steelman SL,Rosenblum CI,Kopchick JJ

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous descriptions of pulsatile LH release in immature female rats have been mostly inaccurate because of infrequent blood sampling, discontinuous and unbalanced blood replacement procedures, and possibly because of the use of a heterologous RIA. The present study was undertaken to circumvent these problems and to ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Urbanski HF,Ojeda SR

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light and electron microscopic triple immunostaining was performed on coronal vibratome sections prepared from the hypothalamus of ovariectomized (OVX) and OVX plus estrogen-treated African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops). Immunoreactivity for progesterone receptors (PRs) and neuropeptide-Y (NPY) was visualized...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Horvath TL,Shanabrough M,Naftolin F,Leranth C

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T4-binding globulin (TBG), the principal carrier of thyroid hormone in serum, is a glycoprotein containing 20% carbohydrate. The importance of the carbohydrate moiety has been previously studied by enzymatic deglycosylation, which showed that deglycosylated TBG retains its original immunological an T4-binding properti...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Murata Y,Magner JA,Refetoff S

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of many endocrine cells is regulated by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). The effects of GABA are mediated by GABAA and/or GABAB receptors. While GABAB receptors in the central nervous system have now been extensively characterized, little is known of the function and pharmacology of GABAB receptors on endo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： De Koning HP,Jenks BG,Roubos EW

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of rat CRF, arginine vasopressin (VP), oxytocin (OXY), and isoproterenol (ISO) on the biosynthesis and release of pro-ACTH/endorphin-derived peptides by monolayer cultures of rat anterior pituitary cells in complete serum-free medium (CSFM) were studied. When cells were exposed to hormone for 3 h, CRF, VP,...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wand GS,Eipper BA

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis adapts to periods of chronic or repeated stress. We have now investigated whether there is any differential effect of repeated immobilization stress on CRH and arginine vasopressin (AVP) gene transcription in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN), using probes for both ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ma XM,Levy A,Lightman SL

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GH promptly increases cytosolic free calcium ([Ca2+]i) in freshly isolated rat adipocytes. Adipocytes deprived of GH for 3 h or longer are incapable of increasing [Ca2+]i in response to GH, but instead respond in an insulin-like manner. Insulin blocks the GH-induced increase in [Ca2+]i in GH-replete cells and stimulat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gaur S,Yamaguchi H,Goodman HM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal or hypothalamic extract-induced ACTH or TSH secretory capacity as well as intracellular ACTH content were assessed in cultured rat adenohypophyseal cells after various pretreatments of the donor animals. Medium and intracellular ACTH or TSH were measured by radioimmunoassay. Ten-day to 2-month adrenalectomy enha...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yasuda N,Takebe K,Greer MA

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kisspeptin (encoded by the Kiss1 gene) is an important regulator of reproduction. In rodents, Kiss1 is expressed in two hypothalamic regions, the arcuate nucleus and anteroventral periventricular/ periventricular continuum, where it is regulated by sex steroids. However, the distribution, regulation, and functional si...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kim J,Semaan SJ,Clifton DK,Steiner RA,Dhamija S,Kauffman AS

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the preovulatory and estradiol-progesterone-induced GnRH-LH surge, a subpopulation of GnRH neurons transiently expresses the transcription factor c-fos, which is a useful marker of cell activation. To further characterize this subpopulation of GnRH neurons, multiple immunohistochemical procedures were applied t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Eyigor O,Jennes L

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatic Sertoli cells of the testis are major targets for FSH and are important for the regulation of spermatogenesis. The binding of FSH to Sertoli cells activates the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A signaling pathway, resulting in phosphorylation of the cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB), which is requ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Walker WH,Fucci L,Habener JF

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ghrelin receptor (GhrR) is known for its strong orexigenic effects in pharmacological doses and has long been considered as a promising target for the treatment of obesity. Several antagonists have been developed to decrease the orexigenic signaling, but none of these have been approved for the treatment of obesit...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hedegaard MA,Holst B

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) are proinflammatory cytokines that affect the secretion of several neuroendocrine hormones. In addition, glial cells synthesize and release IL-6, suggesting a paracrine role for this cytokine in the brain. We have examined the regulation of IL-6 release from glial ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zumwalt JW,Thunstrom BJ,Spangelo BL

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-4 is a key mediator of anterior pituitary organogenesis. However, through inappropriate expression patterns, BMP-4 is also pathogenic in a pituitary adenoma subtype-specific context. In these cases, increase or decrease in BMP-4 in lactotroph- and corticotroph-derived adenomas, respect...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yacqub-Usman K,Duong CV,Clayton RN,Farrell WE

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve weeks of high-fat diet feeding causes ghrelin resistance in arcuate neuropeptide Y (NPY)/agouti-related protein (AgRP) neurons. In the current study, we investigated whether diet-induced weight loss could restore NPY/AgRP neuronal responsiveness to ghrelin and whether ghrelin mediates rebound weight gain after ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Briggs DI,Lockie SH,Wu Q,Lemus MB,Stark R,Andrews ZB

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on glycogen metabolism and the binding of [125I]iodo-EGF to receptors in fetal rat hepatocytes have been examined. The actions of EGF have been compared with those of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and insulin. EGF (0.1-45 nM) stimulated dose-dependent increases in [1...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Freemark M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00