Estrogen-induced gonadotropin surges in decerebrated female rhesus monkeys with medial basal hypothalamic peninsulae.

abstract：:In the present study, we investigated the role of the multidrug resistance (mdr) P-glycoprotein (Pgp) at the blood-brain barrier in the control of access of cortisol and corticosterone to the mouse and human brain. [(3)H]Cortisol poorly penetrated the brain of adrenalectomized wild-type mice, but the uptake was 3.5-fo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Karssen AM,Meijer OC,van der Sandt IC,Lucassen PJ,de Lange EC,de Boer AG,de Kloet ER

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II is one of the main physiological regulators of aldosterone biosynthesis in the zona glomerulosa of the adrenal cortex. The hormone stimulates intracellular cholesterol mobilization to the mitochondrion for steroid biosynthesis. Here we have examined whether angiotensin II also modulates exogenous lipopr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cherradi N,Bideau M,Arnaudeau S,Demaurex N,James RW,Azhar S,Capponi AM

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat uterine enzyme glycerylphosphorylcholine (GPC) diesterase found in the proestrous secretions was purified and characterized biochemically with respect to its subunit mol wt, native size, pI, and amino acid and carbohydrate composition. The 30-kDa protein was assessed to have a native mol wt of 105 kDa, as dete...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mitra J,Chowdhury M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (AII) receptors in adrenal glomerulosa cells are coupled to adenylate cyclase inhibition. We investigated the importance of cyclase inhibition in adrenal steroidogenesis by treating adrenal glomerulosa cells with the toxin of Bordetella pertussis (20 ng/ml) for 3 and 18 h. This treatment prevented inhib...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Woodcock EA,McLeod JK

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have revealed that C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) is a potent stimulator of endochondral bone growth. Nevertheless, the effect of CNP on bone turnover has not yet been well studied. To elucidate this issue, we investigated the bone phenotype of a mouse model with elevated plasma CNP concentrations (SA...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kondo E,Yasoda A,Fujii T,Nakao K,Yamashita Y,Ueda-Sakane Y,Kanamoto N,Miura M,Arai H,Mukoyama M,Inagaki N,Nakao K

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection-induced inflammation, frequently associated with increased production of proinflammatory cytokines, is considered a significant contributor to preterm birth. A G protein-coupled cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2), encoded by Cnr2, is expressed in various immune cells and was shown to modulate immune responses. We ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sun X,Cappelletti M,Li Y,Karp CL,Divanovic S,Dey SK

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell-free system was used to characterize the binding reaction between the progesterone receptor and nuclear acceptor sites prepared from rat placenta. Two forms of receptor-acceptor complex were examined. One was extracted from nuclei by exposure to 0.6 M KCl; the other type was resistant to salt extraction. Kineti...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ogle TF

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence indicates that osteopontin (Opn), one of the bone matrix proteins, plays an important role in the attachment of osteoclasts to bone matrix. Besides being elaborated by osteoblasts, this protein is also produced by osteoclasts. The present study was performed to examine the effect of calcitonin (CT) on ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kaji H,Sugimoto T,Miyauchi A,Fukase M,Tezuka K,Hakeda Y,Kumegawa M,Chihara K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depletion of hypothalamic norepinephrine (NE) and epinephrine by administration of diethyldithiocarbamate abolished the stimulatory effects of intraventricular (IVT) angiotensin II (AII) on LH release in ovariectomized rats pretreated with estradiol and progesterone. The increase in blood LH produced by IVT NE or iv L...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Steele MK,Ganong WF

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II is a potent octapeptide vasoconstrictor and regulator of cardiovascular and electrolyte homeostasis. Angiotensinogen, the protein precursor of angiotensin II, is synthesized by the liver and many other organs of the adult rat. To determine whether angiotensin may be present in early fetal development we...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lee HU,Campbell DJ,Habener JF

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) is a member of the nerve growth factor family that is important for neuronal survival and plasticity. We recently demonstrated that stress decreases BDNF messenger RNA (mRNA) levels in the hippocampus, which raises the possibility that BDNF may play a role in regulation of the h...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Smith MA,Makino S,Kim SY,Kvetnansky R

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)ergic nerves innervate both the neurohypophysis and the hypothalamus. To test the hypothesis that VIP is a releasing factor for neurohypophyseal hormones, rats were given intracerebroventricular (icv) infusions of VIP in doses varying from 0.3 pmol/kg.min to 3 nmol/kg.min for 5 m...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bardrum B,Ottesen B,Fahrenkrug J,Fuchs AR

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used differential display PCR on two GnRH producing cell lines to identify genes involved in GnRH gene expression and neuronal migration. RNA from Gn10 cells (derived from a tumor in the olfactory area when GnRH neurons are migrating and make low levels of GnRH) and from GT1-7 cells (derived from a tumor in forebra...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fang Z,Xiong X,James A,Gordon DF,Wierman ME

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junctions were observed on the lateral plasma membrane of the typical thyroid epithelial cell in freeze-fracture preparations of rat thyroid gland. The gap junctions were 0.1 to 0.4 mum in diameter and were composed of closely packed, approximately 80 nm particles. They were located from 1 to 6 mum from the apical...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tice LW,Carter RC,Wollman SH

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pancreatic polypeptide cell, the only mature endocrine cell in the fetal pig pancreas, produces equimolar amounts of two peptides, pancreatic polypeptide and pancreatic icosapeptide, from the same precursor. The amino acid sequence of pancreatic polypeptide is more homogeneous among species, whereas pancreatic ico...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Amaratunga A,Tuch BE,Han XG,Georges P,Dean SK,Scott H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the neurohypophyseal hormone oxytocin (OT) is best know for its role in reproduction, OT also stimulates natriuresis at physiological plasma levels. This effect is mediated via specific renal OT receptors (OTRs). In the present study, we have characterized rat renal OTR gene transcripts and assessed their reg...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Breton C,Neculcea J,Zingg HH

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constitutive nitric oxide synthase (cNOS) was immunolocalized to study its role in osmotic regulation. Immunoreactivity was observed in all major hypothalamic osmoregulatory structures, the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis, subfornical organ, median preoptic nucleus, and supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei. The...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wang H,Morris JF

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MCF-7 cells migrate through vitronectin-coated filters in response to insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I); migration is inhibited by the matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitor BB-94, but not by the serine proteinase inhibitor aprotinin. MMP-9 was identified in the conditioned medium of MCF-7 cells; in addition, flu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mira E,Mañes S,Lacalle RA,Márquez G,Martínez-A C

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the lutropin receptor (LHR) in granulosa cells is a complex phenomenon under the hormonal control of FSH and estradiol. Using primary cultures of granulosa cells from immature female rats pretreated with diethylstilbestrol (a compound with estrogen-like activity), the role of FSH in LHR induction was...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chen S,Shi H,Liu X,Segaloff DL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differences in the catalytic activity of the placental and gonadal isozymes of porcine aromatase cytochrome P450 (P450arom) were examined in cell lines exhibiting stable expression of recombinant enzyme. Cell lines were selected that expressed high, but similar, immunodetectable levels of each isozyme based on Western...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Corbin CJ,Trant JM,Walters KW,Conley AJ

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of PRL in mammalian salt and water balance remains controversial. To avoid the methodological problems of exogenous PRL administration, endogenous hyperprolactinemia was established in normal rats by implantation of extra anterior pituitary glands under the kidney capsule. To eliminate excess glucocorticoid s...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Adler RA,Herzberg VL,Brinck-Johnsen T,Sokol HW

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the effects of hCG and estradiol on the time course of the inhibition of C17-20-lyase and the depletion of the estradiol cytosol receptor in testicular tissue of male rats. In hCG-treated animals the first significant decrease in C17-20-lyase activity was observed 16 h after injection of the hormo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Brinkmann A,Leemborg I,Rommerts F,van der Molen H

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An increasing body of evidence has linked AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and malonyl coenzyme A (CoA) to the regulation of energy balance. Thus, factors that activate AMPK and decrease the concentration of malonyl CoA in peripheral tissues, such as exercise, decrease triglyceride accumulation in the adipocyte and...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ruderman NB,Saha AK,Kraegen EW

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the possibility that a common phenomenon might exist by which glucocorticoids influence responses to thyroid hormones, the cytosol levels of four proteins were measured after 2 days of treatment with L-T3 (T3; 50 micrograms/100 g. day 2) and/or cortisone (2 mg/100 g./day) in adult male hypothyroid rats....

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Shapiro LE,Sachchidananda J

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) synthesis is enhanced by exogenous vasopressin (AVP). To determine whether the pressor or the antidiuretic activities of AVP are related to its effect on PGE2 synthesis, AVP and the nonpressor analog, 1-deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (dD'AVP), were administered to the isolated perfused ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zipser RD,Myers SI,Needleman P

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral ketoconazole has been demonstrated to lower plasma testosterone in man. Measurement of blood precursors of testosterone suggest that ketoconazole may have its effect inhibiting the 17,20-desmolase enzyme within the testis. To substantiate this, a series of in vitro experiments was conducted using the rat testis t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sikka SC,Swerdloff RS,Rajfer J

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin is more effective than GHRH in stimulating GH release in normal adult humans and monkeys in vivo. This robust effect of ghrelin has been largely attributed to regulation of hypothalamic input, whereas the direct effect of ghrelin on pituitary GH release has been minimized by the observation that ghrelin has on...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kineman RD,Luque RM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired regulation of hepatic glucose production is a characteristic feature of the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of diseases that includes obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. It has been proposed that sustained endoplasmic reticulum stress, which appears to occur in obesity and ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wang D,Wei Y,Schmoll D,Maclean KN,Pagliassotti MJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embryo implantation is a highly synchronized event between an activated blastocyst and a receptive endometrium. The success of this process relies on the dynamic interplay of estrogen (E(2)) and progesterone (P(4)), however, the details of this interaction are not entirely clear. Recent data implicate E(2) and P(4) in...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Frolova A,Flessner L,Chi M,Kim ST,Foyouzi-Yousefi N,Moley KH

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PGs are important mediators of the ovulatory process and prostaglandin G/H synthase-2 (PGHS-2) is a key rate-limiting enzyme in the PG biosynthetic pathway. To determine whether PGHS-2 is regulated in equine follicles before ovulation and, if so, to characterize its time course of induction, preovulatory follicles wer...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sirois J,Doré M

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00