Suckling-induced changes of vasoactive intestinal peptide concentrations in hypothalamic areas implicated in the control of prolactin release.

abstract：:Dopaminergic agonists are effective in vivo in inhibiting lactotrope proliferation and prolactin (PRL)-secreting pituitary tumors. The purpose of the present study was to demonstrate in vitro actions of dopaminergic agents on proliferation and cell shape of rat lactotropes. Anterior pituitary cells cultured with serum...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Arita J,Hashi A,Hoshi K,Mazawa S,Suzuki S

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between the steroid hormone 17 beta-estradiol and the muscarinic cholinergic receptors present in the preoptic area (POA), median hypothalamus and posterior hypothalamus of female rats was examined in vitro at various stages of the estrous cycle. Muscarinic receptors varied in a cyclic manner, specifi...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Egozi Y,Kloog Y

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The medial amygdala (MeA) responds to olfactory stimuli and alters reproductive physiology. However, the neuronal circuit that relays signals from the MeA to the reproductive axis remains poorly defined. This study aimed to test whether MeA kisspeptin (MeAKiss) neurons in male mice are sensitive to sexu...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Aggarwal S,Tang C,Sing K,Kim HW,Millar RP,Tello JA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrical properties of GH3 cells, a transformed line from the rat pituitary, were studied with a current-clamp technique in the presence of triiodothyronine (T3) and reverse triiodothyronine (rT3) and compared with the known effects of T3. rT3 had an effect only in a concentration of 1 microM; action potentials ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： du Pont JS

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:The presence of vasopressin (VP) in pars distalis of rats and pigs was investigated. Using radioimmunoassay and bioassay of VP, a substance with immunological and biological properties of this hormone was found. This substance was not detected in the adenohypophysis of rats with diabetes insipidus. A partial purificat...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Chateau M,Marchetti J,Burlet A,Boulange M

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative autoradiography was used to evaluate the effects of sex and either 1 or 5 daily 2-hour sessions of restraint stress on binding at 5-HT1A, 5-HT1C and 5-HT2 receptors in the rat dorsal hippocampus. Neither sex nor restraint stress were found to have effects on binding at 5-HT1C or 5-HT2 receptors. However, ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Mendelson SD,McEwen BS

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The c-fos protein is rapidly induced in hypothalamic magnocellular nuclei following hemorrhage. We used specific antibodies directed against c-fos and either vasopressin (AVP) or oxytocin (OT) neurophysin to investigate c-fos activation in individual AVP and OT neurons. AVP and OT neurons expressed c-fos in response t...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Roberts MM,Robinson AG,Fitzsimmons MD,Grant F,Lee WS,Hoffman GE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic GnRH pulse generator activity, which was assessed by the characteristic increases in the multiple unit activity (MUA) specifically associated with the pulsatile LH secretion (MUA volleys), was monitored throughout the estrous cycle of the female goat. Blood samples were collected daily for analysis of...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Tanaka T,Ozawa T,Hoshino K,Mori Y

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood samples were removed via chronic intra-atrial cannulae every 15 min in female rats during the estrous cycle, the last week of pregnancy, parturition and suckling. Growth hormone (GH) secretion during the estrous cycle is characterized by episodic release, occurring approximately once hourly. The surges in GH inc...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Saunders A,Terry LC,Audet J,Brazeau P,Martin JB

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the alpha-subunit of the glycoprotein hormones was studied in the developing rat pituitary by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemical techniques. The alpha-subunit mRNA labelling was detected in Rathke's pouch at 12 days' gestation (E12); at E13, it was exclusively concentrated in the pars tuber...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Stoeckel ME,Hindelang C,Klein MJ,Poissonnier M,Félix JM

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:Met-enkephalin concentrations in the anterior pituitary gland were shown to decline dramatically within the first 24 h after reserpine treatment, with effects apparent as early as 6 h. This was followed by subsequent repletion and late augmentation of Met-enkephalin levels 3 weeks following reserpine. Treatment with t...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： George SR,Kertesz M

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was designed to determine whether the ability of central oxytocin (OT) to stimulate gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) on the afternoon of proestrus (PE) in the cycling female rat is mediated at the level of GnRH terminals within the median eminence (ME), or at higher hypothalamic levels where GnRH cell b...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Selvage D,Johnston CA

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mediobasal hypothalamic slices of adult ovariectomized (OVX) rats treated or not with 17 beta-estradiol (E2) were superfused in buffered (pH 7.2) Locke medium containing bacitracin. A 6-min pulse of K+ (56 m M) was less effective in releasing luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LH-RH) from mediobasal hypo...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Drouva SV,Laplante E,Gautron JP,Kordon C

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on hypothalamic norepinephrine (NE) and dopamine (DA) turnover and hypothalamic serotonin (5-HT), 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (5-HIAA) and LHRH content preceding and during a progesterone- (P) induced LH and prolactin (PRL) surge were investigated in ovariectomized est...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Steger RW,DePaolo L,Asch RH,Silverman AY

更新日期：1983-11-01 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 ability of the flutamide metabolite Sch 16423 to block androgen receptor binding and inhibit masculine copulatory behavior in male rats was examined. Restoration of copulatory behavior was prevented in Sch 16423-treated rats given two 10-mm testosterone (T)-filled Silastic capsules plus 15 mg Sch 16423 daily for 1...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： McGinnis MY,Mirth MC

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasopressin and oxytocin modulate memory processes which effects are dissociated from the typical peripheral endocrine effects of these neuropeptides. Recently, vasopressin has been implicated in the regulation of body temperature. In view of this, experiments were designed to determine whether the antipyretic effect ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Kovács GL,De Wied D

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were conducted to determine if the hypothermic effects of barbiturates were responsible for their ability to suppress luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion in rats following ovariectomy or treatment with gonadal steroids. In both ovariectomized rats and rats treated with estradiol and progesterone, pentobarbital ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Simpkins JW,Katovich MJ

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to elucidate the effect of glucose concentrations on the release of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), a brain neuropeptide possessing glucoregulatory function, from rat hypothalamic slices in vitro. Rat hypothalamic slices were preincubated for 60 min at 37 degrees C in Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate (K...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Yamaguchi M,Iriuchijima T,Michimata T,Mori M

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of in vivo corticosterone manipulation on binding sites for the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate was determined using radioligand binding to rat brain cryostat sections and crude synaptic membranes. 3H-glutamate binding to regions of the dorsal hippocampal formation was significantly decreased in adren...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Halpain S,McEwen BS

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we utilized the 7315a PRL- and ACTH-secreting tumor to induce a hyperprolactinemic (HP) state sufficient to profoundly suppress the postcastration LH rise in female rats. Tumor-induced prolactin levels which ranged 2,000-3,000 ng/ml substantially reduced the LH rise in both ovariectomized (OVX) an...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Shu C,Selmanoff M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple unit activity (MUA) was recorded from the adrenocorticotropic area (n. posterior medialis hypothalami, PMH) of unrestrained resting pigeons throughout the 24 h period and compared with plasma corticosterone levels (B). Bilateral electrolytic lesions of the hippocampus suppressed diurnal variations of MUA and ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Bouillé C,Baylé JD

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of catecholamines on plasma levels of immunoreactive ACTH (ACTHi), alpha-MSH (alpha-MSHi), beta-endorphin (beta-ENDi), arginine-vasopressin (AVPi) and of corticosterone (B) was studied in female rats. Intravenous infusion of the specific beta-adrenoceptor-stimulating agent l-isoproterenol in Wistar rats und...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Berkenbosch F,Vermes I,Buijs RM,Tilders FJ

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence in rodents suggests that a prolactin locally synthesized and released within the brain can act together with that taken up from the circulation to modulate neuroendocrine responses. The present study was designed to identify the regional patterns of prolactin expression in the adult and developin...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Roselli CE,Bocklandt S,Stadelman HL,Wadsworth T,Vilain E,Stormshak F

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:The role of beta-endorphin in the stimulation of growth hormone secretion elicited by administration of clonidine (Clon), an alpha2-adrenergic agonist, was investigated in awake, freely moving male rats. Animals were infused slowly with either 1 ml of normal rabbit serum (NRS), beta-endorphin antiserum (beta-end-AS) o...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Bruhn TO,Tresco PA,Mueller GP,Jackson IM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute immobilization stress results in changes in the concentration of both dopamine and noradrenaline in specific forebrain limbic system areas, whereas the adrenaline levels remain unchanged. Changes in dopamine concentrations are more restricted than those in noradrenaline concentrations. Dopamine levels are increa...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Saavedra JM

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The facilitation of sexual receptivity by oxytocin (OT) in female rats is related to the regulation of oxytocin receptors (OTR) by ovarian steroids in the ventromedial nuclei (VMN) of the hypothalamus. In a previous study, we have shown that estradiol benzoate (EB) causes a twofold increase in OTR binding in the VMN. ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Coirini H,Johnson AE,Schumacher M,McEwen BS

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00