Gestational changes in the metabolism of progesterone by the fetal calf adrenal.

abstract：:Glucocorticoids regulate hippocampal function in part by modulating gene expression through the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). GR binding is highly cell type specific, directed to accessible chromatin regions established during tissue differentiation. Distinct classes of GR binding sites are dependent on the activity o...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Pooley JR,Flynn BP,Grøntved L,Baek S,Guertin MJ,Kershaw YM,Birnie MT,Pellatt A,Rivers CA,Schiltz RL,Hager GL,Lightman SL,Conway-Campbell BL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the regulation of expression of the TSH receptor (TSHR) in extrathyroidal tissues, the level of TSHR messenger RNA (mRNA) and TSH-dependent signal transduction were determined in isolated rat adipocytes and cultured preadipocytes. The epididymal, sc, and perirenal, but not the interscapular brown adipos...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Haraguchi K,Shimura H,Lin L,Endo T,Onaya T

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin receptor (OTR) expression in human myometrium increases over 150-fold from the beginning of pregnancy to the end. In the present studies, we examined potential mechanisms of OTR up-regulation, using myometrial cells in primary culture from women in late gestation. OTR ligand-binding sites and steady-state mRN...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Jeng YJ,Soloff SL,Anderson GD,Soloff MS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of [125I]iodo-low density lipoprotein ([125I]iodo-LDL) to isolated membranes was determined for the outer (glomerulosa/fasciculata) and inner (reticularis) zones of the guinea pig adrenal cortex. Binding of [125I]iodo-LDL to membranes from both zones was found to be highly specific and dependent on the pre...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nonomura K,Obara T,Strott CA

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the adult pancreas to generate new insulin (beta) cells has been controversial because of difficulties in unequivocally identifying the precursor population. We recently determined that beta cells were generated during development from precursors that expressed the homeodomain-containing transcription f...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fernandes A,King LC,Guz Y,Stein R,Wright CV,Teitelman G

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct effects of glucocorticoids on testicular LH receptor content and steroidogenesis were studied in vivo and in vitro. Immature hypophysectomized rats were treated with varying doses of dexamethasone, corticosterone, or a synthetic progestin, 17,21-dimethyl-19-nor-pregna-4,9-diene-3,20-dione (R5020). Some anim...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bambino TH,Hsueh AJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GH-releasing factor (GRF) is a hypothalamic peptide that stimulates the secretion of pituitary GH. The possibility of feedback effects of GRF within the central nervous system was studied in conscious freely moving male rats with indwelling iv and intracerebroventricular (icv) cannulae. Animals were injected icv or iv...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Katakami H,Arimura A,Frohman LA

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation with T3 results in a dose-dependent increase in growth rate of cultured GC cells, a GH-producing rat pituitary tumor cell line. The T3-induced increase in growth rate results mainly from shortening of the G1 period from 79.4 +/- 4.3 (SD) h in cells grown in T3-depleted medium (-T3) to 10.0 +/- 0.9 h. This e...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： DeFesi CR,Fels EC,Surks MI

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgen signaling in prostate smooth muscle cells (pSMCs) is critical for the maintenance of prostate homeostasis, the alterations of which are a central aspect in the development of pathological conditions. Testosterone can act through the classic androgen receptor (AR) in the cytoplasm, eliciting genomic signaling,...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Peinetti N,Scalerandi MV,Cuello Rubio MM,Leimgruber C,Nicola JP,Torres AI,Quintar AA,Maldonado CA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of recombinant human insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on both vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and PRL production and gene expression were studied using rat anterior pituitary cell cultures grown in serum-free defined medium. We also examined whether pituitary VIP could be involved in the PRL respon...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lara JI,Lorenzo MJ,Cacicedo L,Tolón RM,Balsa JA,López-Fernández J,Sánchez-Franco F

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide-38 (PACAP38) is a neuropeptide related to vasoactive intestinal peptide-secretin-glucagon which stimulates adenylate cyclase in cultured rat pituitary cells and stimulates LH and FSH release in vitro and in vivo. Because the cAMP-protein kinase-A pathway regulates the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tsujii T,Ishizaka K,Winters SJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of cells to directly respond to glucocorticoids and aldosterone is a function of GR and MR expression, and coexpression of 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases (11betaHSDs), which convert glucocorticoids and their 11-ketometabolites into either receptor inactive or active derivatives. The aim of the presen...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sheppard KE,Autelitano DJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GH is believed to play a role in promoting insulin resistance in patients with diabetes and with GH excess. The means by which GH produces insulin resistance may be through direct suppression of glucose metabolism in target cells (insulin-independent) or by interfering with the ability of insulin to stimulate glucose ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Foster CM,Hale PM,Jing HW,Schwartz J

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GnRH neurons were harvested from adult male rats in order to determine if LH or FSH directly altered the modalities of GnRH release and/or cellular GnRH content. Cultures received vehicle, 25 ng/ml LH, 125 ng/ml LH, 25 ng/ml FSH, or 125 ng/ml FSH, and media samples were collected before treatment, during the treatment...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Melrose PA

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TGF-beta is a multifunctional factor involved in regulating a variety of cellular activities. In mammals, TGF-beta is known to regulate reproduction, including ovarian functions. The role of TGF-beta in lower vertebrates, such as fish, is poorly understood. To examine the role of TGF-beta in fish reproduction, cDNAs e...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kohli G,Hu S,Clelland E,Di Muccio T,Rothenstein J,Peng C

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PRL receptor (PRL-R) expression has been analyzed in human hematopoietic tissues using flow cytofluorometric analysis with a series of biotinylated monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) directed against the extracellular domain of the rat liver PRL-R. In the thymus, more than 75% of cells were labeled by the anti-PRL-R mAb. Re...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dardenne M,de Moraes Mdo C,Kelly PA,Gagnerault MC

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphoregulator genes like members of the Hox gene family regulate uterine development and are associated with endocrine-related processes such as endometrial proliferation and differentiation in the adult uterus. Exposure to neonatal endocrine disruptors could affect signaling events governed by Hox genes, altering t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Varayoud J,Ramos JG,Bosquiazzo VL,Muñoz-de-Toro M,Luque EH

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that in vitamin D deficiency there are aberrations of estrogen metabolism in the laying hen. Five White Leghorn hens, 35 weeks of age, all laying soft shelled eggs as a result of complete withdrawal of supplemental vitamin D3 (D3) from the diet, were found to have a 3-fold higher molar ratio of p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tsang CP,Grunder AA

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of human placenta membranes with low concentrations (0.1-0.2 mM) of dithiothreitol (DTT) increased insulin binding approximately 1.4-fold, while 10 mM DTT completely inhibited insulin binding. In contrast, treatment of rat adipocyte membranes with 0.5-2.0 mM DTT increased tracer insulin binding 3- to 6-fold...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Swanson ML,Dudley DT,Walker PS,Boyle TR,Pessin JE

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are functional constituents of many fruits and vegetables. Some flavonoids have antidiabetic properties because they improve altered glucose and oxidative metabolisms of diabetic states. Procyanidins are flavonoids with an oligomeric structure, and it has been shown that they can improve the pathological ox...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Pinent M,Blay M,Bladé MC,Salvadó MJ,Arola L,Ardévol A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TSH is the most important biomarker in the interpretation of thyroid function in man. Its levels are determined by circulating thyroid hormone (TH) levels that feed back centrally to regulate the expression of the subunits that comprise TSH from the pituitary. The nuclear corepressor 1 (NCoR1), is a critical coregulat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Costa-e-Sousa RH,Astapova I,Ye F,Wondisford FE,Hollenberg AN

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3), the predominant IGF carrier protein in circulation, is posttranslationally modified in vivo by IGFBP-3 protease(s) into a number of fragments. Based on the ascertained and predicted recognition sites for known IGFBP-3 proteases, FLAG-epitope tagged intact I...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Devi GR,Yang DH,Rosenfeld RG,Oh Y

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system which uses perifused pieces from the antrum of rat stomach has been used to study the effect of dihydrosomatostatin on gastrin release. The gastrin concentration in fractions of the perfusate was measured by radioimmunoassay. Dihydrosomatostatin (2 x 10-7M) had no effect on basal gastrin levels but ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hayes JR,Johnson DG,Koerker D,Williams RH

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific polyclonal antisera to the rat estrogen receptor (rER) were developed using a synthetic peptide as the antigen. The peptide corresponds to amino acids 270-284 deduced from the cloned rER cDNA and has no homology to other steroid hormone receptors. Antipeptide antisera raised in rabbits specifically recognize ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Furlow JD,Ahrens H,Mueller GC,Gorski J

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of FRTL-5 cells to iodide (I-) in excess of 3 microM suppresses the concentrative uptake of I-. The depression of I- uptake measured at the steady state is due to decrease in the rate of I- influx and not to an effect on I- efflux. Exposure to NaI is associated with decreased T4 secretion and also depressed N...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Grollman EF,Smolar A,Ommaya A,Tombaccini D,Santisteban P

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To identify genes that are differentially expressed in the developing testis we used representational difference analysis of complementary DNA from gonads of mouse embryos at 13.5 days postcoitum (dpc). Three genes were identified. One of them was a novel gene termed tescalcin that encoded a putative EF-hand Ca(2+)-bi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Perera EM,Martin H,Seeherunvong T,Kos L,Hughes IA,Hawkins JR,Berkovitz GD

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activins stimulate FSH synthesis and secretion by pituitary gonadotrope cells. Activin A induction of porcine and murine FSHβ (Fshb) gene transcription in immortalized gonadotropes is dependent on homolog of Drosophila mothers against decapentaplegic (SMAD) proteins as well as the forkhead transcription factor L2 (FOX...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lamba P,Wang Y,Tran S,Ouspenskaia T,Libasci V,Hébert TE,Miller GJ,Bernard DJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poor growth before birth increases the risk of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and impairs insulin secretion relative to sensitivity. We investigated the effects of intrauterine growth restriction in sheep on insulin secretion, beta-cell mass, and function from before birth to young adulthood and its m...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gatford KL,Mohammad SN,Harland ML,De Blasio MJ,Fowden AL,Robinson JS,Owens JA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibroblasts represent one of the in vivo sites of extrahepatic insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) production. In this study, cultured fibroblasts prepared from the skin of neonatal rats were used as a model to assess the role of serum in regulating IGF-I messenger RNA (mRNA) levels. IGF-I mRNA, as demonstrated by No...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lowe WL Jr,Kummer M,Karpen CW,Wu XD

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T3 and rT3 production rates in the fetus account for roughly only a third of the total T4 production rate; thus, the fate of the majority of T4 produced in the fetus is unknown (the "T4 disposal gap"). We developed sensitive and specific T4 sulfate (T4S) and T3 sulfate (T3S) RIAs to investigate the roles of these comp...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wu S,Polk D,Wong S,Reviczky A,Vu R,Fisher DA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00