Sexually dimorphic expression of co-repressor Sin3A in mouse kidneys.

abstract：:We have previously reported that the protein kinase C ligand 12-O-tetradecanoyphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) inhibited the angiotensin II (AII) stimulated CYP11B2 gene expression in the adrenocortical H295R cell line. Here we report that TPA increased the level of phospho-p44/42 MAPK but AII did not. The MEK1 inhibitor PD98...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： LeHoux JG,Lefebvre A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI) is a key component in the reverse cholesterol transportation. The aim of this study was to assess the association between exon1 (G → A) polymorphism of SR-BI gene and lipid profiles among the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS) population. MATERIALS AND METH...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Faam B,Daneshpour MS,Hedayati M,Halalkhor S,Mansournia MA,Zarkesh M,Azizi F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to regulating renal sodium resorption and, thus, intravascular volume, aldosterone may have direct effects on the cardiovascular system. We previously identified a polymorphism (-344C/T) in the promoter of the aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) gene that affects binding of the SF-1 transcription factor and thu...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： White PC,Hautanen A,Kupari M

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparison of binding of 125I-porcine FSH to porcine granulosa cells from small and large ovarian follicles indicated that binding is dependent on both time and temperature. At 37 C, binding of ligand is more than four times higher in cells from small follicles than in cells from large follicles within 30 minutes of t...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： LaBarbera AR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparative study (n = 20) of serum levels of leutinizing hormone (LH) and testosterone (T) between male trained athletes (high-school students, 16-18 years old) living in North and South Shouna in the Jordan Valley (JV), 320-360 meters below sea level, and those living in Ramtha and Irbid, 550-650 meters above sea ...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Bani Hani I,El-Migdadi F,Shotar A,Abudheese R,Bashir N

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitated serial serum beta-hydroxybutyrate (beta-OHB) levels using the Ketosite method in 9 children with IDDM who were treated for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and compared them to urinary ketone measurements by dipstick. Persistent elevations of serum beta-OHB were seen in six patients when the urine became cle...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Nadgir UM,Silver FL,MacGillivray MH

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which SF-1 (Steroidogenic Factor-1) and Dax-1 (Dosage-sensitive sex reversal-Adrenal hypoplasia congenita critical region on the X chromosome) dictate adrenal-specific transcriptional programs are the focus of this laboratory. SF-1-mediated transcription is upregulated by phosphorylation of serine 20...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Babu PS,Bavers DL,Shah S,Hammer GD

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Adenosine deaminase (ADA), purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNPase), S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase (SAHH), 5'-nucleotidase (5N), and deoxycytidine kinase (dCK) are involved in purine salvage metabolism. Changes of the activities of the above enzymes have been observed in blood cells in patients with imm...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Karbownik M,Zasada K,Wyczechowska D,Lewiński A,Fabianowska-Majewska K

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T3 receptors are ligand-dependent transcriptional activators that can stimulate gene expression resulting in growth and development. In this study T3 binding sites on isolated liver nuclei are demonstrated in the teleost Anabas testudineus. The effect of hypothyroidism and feeding of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Shameena B,Renuka TR,Varghese S,Paulose CS,Oommen OV

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a novel mutant of the luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) in a case of familial Leydig cell hypoplasia and pseudohermaphrotidism. The proband was homozygous for two missense mutations, T1121C and C1175T, causing substitutions I374T and T3921. The molecular effects of the mutations were investigated by heterol...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Pals-Rylaarsdam R,Liu G,Brickman W,Duranteau L,Monroe J,El-Awady MK,Gad YZ,Shenker A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Antithyroid drugs such as propylthiouracil (PTU) and methimazole (MMI) are common medications in Chinese patients with hyperthyroidism and PTU-induced antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) positive vasculitis has been reported. The current cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the prevalence and the...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Gao Y,Zhao MH,Guo XH,Xin G,Gao Y,Wang HY

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several factors including genetic and environmental play a role in the development of obesity and the metabolic syndrome. The transgenic mouse overexpressing 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11beta-HSD) develops visceral obesity. However, it remains unclear how a ubiquitously expressed 11beta-HSD1 enzyme affects a...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Agarwal AK

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase (21-OH) deficiency is HLA-linked. The haplotype HLA-(A3);Bw47;DR7 is strongly associated with 21-OH deficiency and always carries a null allele at the complement C4A (Rodgers) locus. It seemed likely that this haplotype carries a deletion encompassing both the C4A a...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： White PC,Dupont B,New MI

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal smoking is considered to be a risk factor for low birth weight. It is hypothesized that alteration in leptin concentration may be associated with reduced fetal growth. In this study, we assess the effect of smoking during pregnancy on maternal and neonatal serum leptin concentrations, and also on breast milk ...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Ozkan B,Ermis B,Tastekin A,Doneray H,Yildirim A,Ors R

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies from our laboratory have shown that human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), human luteinizing hormone (hLH), and CG-like proteins from Xanthomonas maltophilia (xCG) and Candida albicans (CaCGLP) induce Candida albicans transition from blastospores to hyphal forms. Xanthomonas maltophilia CG-like protein (xC...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Caticha O,Odell WD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prostate gland of humans and other animals has the unique function of accumulating and secreting extraordinarily high levels of citrate. The prostate secretory epithelial cells synthesize citrate which, due to a limiting mitochondrial (m-) aconitase, accumulates rather than being oxidized. Thus citrate is essentia...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Costello LC,Liu Y,Zou J,Franklin RB

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway regulates the turnover of many nuclear hormone receptors, such as the estrogen receptor. For estrogen receptor, proteasome inhibition decreases ligand-mediated transcription. We provide evidence that the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) is degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Yokota K,Shibata H,Kobayashi S,Suda N,Murai A,Kurihara I,Saito I,Saruta T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:It remains difficult to pre-operatively differentiate follicular carcinoma and adenoma even under intraoperative investigations including histopathologic diagnosis of frozen sections. METHODS:We retrospectively compared dual phase thallium (Tl-201) thyroid scan and fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology to d...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Leung HC,Chang CT,Wu HS,Wang TY,Sun SS,Kao CH

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ca2(+)-ATPase of plasma membranes from a variety of tissues is subject to stimulation in vitro, and apparently in vivo, by physiological concentrations of iodothyronines regarded as biologically active in other bioassay systems. This calmodulin-dependent action of thyroid hormone is nongenomic, that is, directly o...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Davis PJ,Davis FB,Lawrence WD

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rat adrenal cortex possesses at least two mechanisms for uptake of extracellular lipoprotein cholesterol; one is receptor mediated endocytosis and the second is a non-endocytotic pathway. The latter was revealed by the ability of lipoproteins such as HDL which do not possess apo B or apo E to enhance steroid hormo...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Gwynne JT,Hess B,Hughes T,Rountree R,Mahaffee D

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Increasing evidence exists that hyperprolactinemia alters metabolic profile. The mechanism of this effect is unknown. We aimed to investigate the differences between the metabolic profile of patients with prolactinomas and nonfunctional pituitary adenomas and to evaluate the impact of other pituitary hormones o...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Perić B,Kruljac I,Šundalić S,Pećina HI,Jović A,Štefanović M,Butorac D,Vrkljan M

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of crowding on the pituitary-gonadal axis was studied in adult male rats. Crowding reduced body weight gain, did not alter relative adrenal weight and increased relative testis weight. Neither basal levels of corticosterone nor its response to acute stress were altered by crowding. Likewise, LH secretion wa...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Armario A,Lopez-Calderón A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between plasma homocysteine (Hcy) levels and carotid, cardiac, and renal end-organ damage in newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. METHODS:Newly diagnosed normotensive T2DM patients (n = 390) were enrolled in this study. The pa...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Kundi H,Kiziltunc E,Ates I,Cetin M,Barca AN,Ozkayar N,Ornek E

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse Y1 adrenocortical tumor cells harbor amplified and overexpressed c-Ki-ras gene, displaying relatively high constitutive levels of Ras x GTP. Here we report that Y1 cells also constitutively display high levels of phosphorylated AKT/PKB, that are dependent on Ras x GTP and PI3K. ACTH rapidly causes dephosphorylat...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Forti FL,Armelin HA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor-promoting phorbol esters are believed to affect cell functions by activating a Ca+2-and lipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C). 12-0-Tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) inhibits LH stimulation of progesterone (P) accumulation in rat granulosa cells. To determine the mechanisms by which TPA inhibits...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Kawai Y,Clark MR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two CYP21 genes, the active CYP21 and the pseudogene, CYP21P, also pairs of duplicated genes including the XA, XB, XB-S; YA, YB; and ZA, ZB are arranged in tandem next to the serum complement C4 genes (C4A and C4B). In this report, we have analyzed the influence of some DNA sequences within the C4A/CYP21P region on th...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Chang SF,Cheng CL

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work was to study if the alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) was involved in activation of the pituitary-adrenal axis (PAA) in rats. The hormone increased plasma corticosterone (CORT) level, and induced an anxiogenic response as indicated by results from the elevated plus-maze test. Intracereb...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Vecsernyés M,Biró E,Gardi J,Julesz J,Telegdy G

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] can mediate effects without being converted to 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D]. METHODS:Vitamin D3 (VD3) was injected intramuscularly to 25-hydroxyvitamin D-1α-hydroxylase [1α(OH)ase] gene knockout (KO) male mice with a dose of 10,000 IU per week for...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Zhang ZL,Ding XF,Tong J,Li BY

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: Testotoxicosis is an autosomal dominant form of limited gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty in boys. It is caused by a heterozygous constitutively activating mutation of the LHCGR gene encoding the luteinizing/hormone receptor (LHR). Some twenty mutations of the LHCGR gene have been reported. Most of ...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Daussac A,Barat P,Servant N,Yacoub M,Missonier S,Lavran F,Gaspari L,Sultan C,Paris F

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether hyperuricemia is associated with the early phase and late phase of insulin release in apparently healthy non-obese subjects with normal glucose tolerance. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A population-based cross-sectional study was performed. Apparently healthy individuals aged 20 to 65 years were eligi...

journal_title：Endocrine research

authors： Simental-Mendía LE,Simental-Mendía E,Rodríguez-Morán M,Guerrero-Romero F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00