Immunohistochemical localization of placental lactogen in binucleate cells of bovine placentomes.

abstract：:IL-6 abundance in amniotic fluid and uterine tissues increases in late gestation or with infection-associated preterm labor. A role in regulation of labor onset is suggested by observations that IL-6 increases expression of genes controlling prostaglandin synthesis and signaling in isolated uterine cells, but whether ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Robertson SA,Christiaens I,Dorian CL,Zaragoza DB,Care AS,Banks AM,Olson DM

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin regulates food intake and other activities through its hypothalamic receptor. Leptin receptors are also found in other organs, including the ovary. Direct effects of leptin in ovarian steroid production were studied in primary rat granulosa cells and in rat and human granulosa cell lines. Leptin (0.6-18 nM) sup...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Barkan D,Jia H,Dantes A,Vardimon L,Amsterdam A,Rubinstein M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major issue of in the treatment of diabetes is the risk of hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is detected both centrally and peripherally in the porto-hepatic area. The portal locus for hypoglycemic detection was originally described using the "local irrigation of the liver" approach in a canine model. Further work using po...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ionut V,Castro AV,Woolcott OO,Stefanovski D,Iyer MS,Broussard JL,Mkrtchyan H,Burch M,Elazary R,Kirkman E,Bergman RN

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen regulates the function, growth, and proliferation of lactotropes in the pituitary. We report here that low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor (LDLR) gene expression and LDL uptake are strongly up-regulated by estrogen in pituitary somatolactotropic GH(3) cells. The uptake of LDL was significantly inhibited by...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Smith PM,Cowan A,White BA

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the involvement of the cAMP pathway in the regulation of beta TC1 cell growth with the phosphodiesterase inhibitor 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) and the activator of adenylate cyclase forskolin. We examined the effect of the increase in cAMP content on the serum-induced resumption of the cell cycle of ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lavergne C,Breant B,Rosselin G

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently reported evidence for the presence of stereospecific energy-dependent transport processes for T3 in rat tissues. These processes were responsible for maintenance of concentration differences of free L- and D-T3 across the cellular plasma and nuclear membranes. In rat liver, the free L-T3 concentration...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mooradian AD,Schwartz HL,Mariash CN,Oppenheimer JH

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that plasma IGF 1 concentration is positively correlated with the rate of antler growth and have proposed that IGF 1 is stimulatory for antler growth in the red deer stag. Therefore to partly resolve the question of whether the IGF 1 was of circulating or local origin in relation to its effect...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Suttie JM,Fennessy PF,Gluckman PD,Corson ID

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity-labeled androgen-binding protein (ABP), present in cytosol prepared from the caput epididymidis of intact sexually mature rabbits, was produced using 17 beta-hydroxy-[1,2-3H]4,6-androstadien-3-one (delta 6-testosterone). Photo-labeled ABP could not be distinguished from unlabeled ABP by gel filtration ch...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Danzo BJ,Taylor CA Jr,Eller BC

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With advancing age, 60-80% of the follicles of the mouse thyroid gland turn "cold", i.e. they lose their normal capacity to iodinate thyroglobulin (Tgb). Cold follicles are morphologically characterized by their large size, by deeply periodic acid-Schiff-stained colloid and by flat epithelial cells. We investigated th...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gerber H,Peter HJ,Studer H

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoaffinity labeling with underivatized T3 was used to identify T3-binding proteins in the membrane of rat erythrocytes. UV irradiation of ghosts and peripheral protein-depleted membranes in the presence of [125I]T3 resulted in the covalent attachment of 125I to membrane proteins (analyzed by polyacrylamide gel elec...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Samson M,Osty J,Blondeau JP

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the number of pituitary vasopressin (VP) receptors plays an important role in controlling pituitary responsiveness during alterations of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. The mechanisms regulating these VP receptors were studied by analysis of the effects of adrenalectomy and glucocorticoid admini...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rabadan-Diehl C,Makara G,Kiss A,Lolait S,Zelena D,Ochedalski T,Aguilera G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a monoclonal antiidiotypic antibody (clone 1D5) directed against the binding site of a monoclonal antiestradiol antibody to interact with the estrogen receptor (ER) was investigated. The following lines of evidence indicate that clone 1D5 has the capacity of mimicking the actions of estradiol, and recog...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mor G,Amir-Zaltsman Y,Barnard G,Kohen F

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that fetal sheep corticotrophs (ACTH-producing cells) at 108 +/- 5 d (days) of gestation are relatively more responsive to CRH than to AVP, whereas those at 139 +/- 0 d (term = 145 d) and in the adult are more responsive to AVP. To further characterize these developmental changes, we used immunocy...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Perez FM,Schwartz J,Rose JC

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perturbing the endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis of thyroid cell lines with thapsigargin, a specific inhibitor of the sarcoendoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) adenosine triphosphatases, and tunicamycin, an inhibitor of the N-linked glycosylation, blocked Tg in the endoplasmic reticulum. This event was signaled outside the en...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Leonardi A,Vito P,Mauro C,Pacifico F,Ulianich L,Consiglio E,Formisano S,Di Jeso B

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Female Chinese hamsters (n = 10) were immunized with Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells that expressed the human TSH receptor (TSHR) to generate a model of Graves' disease. TSHR-autoantibodies (TSHR-Ab) were determined by CHO-TSHR. Two hamsters with stimulating TSHR-Ab showed thyrocyte hypertrophy associated with a foc...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ando T,Imaizumi M,Graves P,Unger P,Davies TF

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central characteristic of uterine fibroids is excessive deposition of extracellular matrix (ECM), which contributes to fibroid growth and bulk-type symptoms. Despite this, very little is known about patterns of ECM protein expression in fibroids and whether these are influenced by the most common genetic anomalies...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Jamaluddin MFB,Ko YA,Kumar M,Brown Y,Bajwa P,Nagendra PB,Skerrett-Byrne DA,Hondermarck H,Baker MA,Dun MD,Scott RJ,Nahar P,Tanwar PS

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human erythropoietin (EPO) is a glycoprotein hormone secreted from the kidney and controls red blood cell production. EPO has a wide clinical use in the treatment of anemia associated with renal disease, certain chronic diseases, and anemia related to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. One major issue regarding the clinic...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fares F,Ganem S,Hajouj T,Agai E

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ontogeny of expression of the CRF gene in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus and POMC gene in the pituitary was studied in rats using in situ hybridization histochemistry and Northern blotting techniques, respectively. CRF mRNA was first detected on day 17 of gestation (E17) in the paraventricular nucleus of...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Grino M,Young WS 3rd,Burgunder JM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the testis the mesenchymally derived peritubular cells produce a paracrine factor, PModS, that mediates mesenchymal-epithelial interactions and modulates Sertoli cell functions essential for the process of spermatogenesis. PModS has a more dramatic effect on Sertoli cell differentiated functions in vitro than any r...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Norton JN,Vigne JL,Skinner MK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Split hand/foot malformation (SHFM) is syndromic ectrodactyly often associated with mental retardation and/or craniofacial defects. Several clinical reports previously described urogenital dysplasia such as micropenis, hypospadias, and small testis in SHFM patients. Genetic lesions in the Dlx5 and Dlx6 (Dlx5/6) locus ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nishida H,Miyagawa S,Vieux-Rochas M,Morini M,Ogino Y,Suzuki K,Nakagata N,Choi HS,Levi G,Yamada G

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRF activity of synthetic vasopressins and pitressin was studied in an in vitro system of cultured rat adenohypophyseal cells using direct measurement of ACTH by radioimmunoassay. Pitressin (posterior pituitary extract) induced a dose-related secretion of ACTH whereas synthetic arginine or lysine vasopressin were devo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yasuda N,Greer MA

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothalamic peptide, pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP), can efficiently increase cAMP levels in pituitary cells and release a number of pituitary hormones, suggesting an important physiological role for this peptide in pituitary function. Exposure of GH3 rat pituitary cells to PACAP resul...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Coleman DT,Chen X,Sassaroli M,Bancroft C

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open pig thyroid follicles in which the apical surface of the follicle cells is in direct contact with the incubation medium were used to study the effect of stimulated exocytosis and stimulated H2O2 generation on the iodination of protein in the incubation medium. In previous studies on this system of follicles we ha...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Björkman U,Ekholm R

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activin/follistatin system is implicated in growth and differentiation of various cell types. Follistatin (FS), through binding and neutralizing activin, plays a major role in the regulation of activin bioavailability. We previously reported that ovarian PA1 cells constitutively secrete FS and show a decreased pro...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Delbaere A,Sidis Y,Schneyer AL

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During in vitro maturation of porcine cumulus cell-oocyte complexes and in vitro luteinization of porcine granulosa cells, FSH induces the expression of the protease TNFα-converting enzyme/A disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain 17 (TACE/ADAM17) and the epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like factors, which activate the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Yamashita Y,Okamoto M,Ikeda M,Okamoto A,Sakai M,Gunji Y,Nishimura R,Hishinuma M,Shimada M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholera toxin (CT) injected ip on day 1 (day of ovulation) of the 4-day hamster estrous cycle, when circulatory progesterone is high and estrogen low, induced a massive uterine decidual reaction, a progesterone-dependent growth normally triggered by the implanting blastocyst. However, CT injected ip on day 3, when cir...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Alleva JJ,Kenimer JG,Jordan AW,Lamanna C

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work suggests that persistent protein malnutrition in immature domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) alters ACTH-adrenocortical cell interaction, possibly including ACTH receptors. To investigate this possibility, we measured some ACTH receptor parameters in isolated adrenocortical cells from normal an...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Carsia RV,Weber H

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin-3 receptor (MC3R) and MC4R are known to play critical roles in energy homeostasis. However, the physiological functions of the MC3R remain poorly understood. Earlier reports indicated that the ventral tegmental area (VTA) is one of the highest sites of MC3R expression, and we sought to determine the f...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lippert RN,Ellacott KL,Cone RD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis is a physiological process by which multicellular organisms eliminate unwanted cells. Death factors such as Fas ligand induce apoptosis by triggering a series of intracellular protein-protein interactions mediated by defined motifs found in the signaling molecules. One of these motifs is the death effector d...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Leo CP,Hsu SY,McGee EA,Salanova M,Hsueh AJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro addition of rat insulin (200, 400 or 800 muU/ml) to collagenase-isolated pancreatic islets of adult rats diminished glucose (3 mg/ml)-induced insulin release which was correlated with a decrease of the ratio of total NADPH/NADP and inhibition of glucose oxidation via the pentose phosphate shunt (PPS). NADH an...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ammon HP,Verspohl E

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00