Insulin-like growth factor-II (IGF-II), type 2 IGF receptor, and IGF-binding protein-2 gene expression in rat lung alveolar epithelial cells: relation to proliferation.

abstract：:Neurons in the rodent anteroventral periventricular nucleus (AVPV) play a key role in integrating circadian and gonadal steroid hormone information in the control of fertility. In particular, estradiol-sensitive kisspeptin neurons located in the AVPV, and adjacent structures [together termed the rostral periventricula...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ducret E,Gaidamaka G,Herbison AE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several lines of indirect evidence suggest that a monocyte family precursor gives rise to the osteoclast, although this hypothesis is controversial. Starting with a uniform population of nonspecific esterase positive, tartrate-sensitive, acid phosphatase-producing, mannose receptor-bearing mononuclear cells, prepared ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Alvarez JI,Teitelbaum SL,Blair HC,Greenfield EM,Athanasou NA,Ross FP

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was previously reported that PRL can stimulate FSH release in immature female rats and PRL-deficient male dwarf mice. We have examined the effects of PRL-producing ectopic pituitary grafts on plasma FSH and LH levels in adult male golden hamsters during exposure to both long (14 h of light, 10 h of darkness) and sh...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bartke A,Siler-Khodr TM,Hogan MP,Roychoudhury P

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many aspects of reproductive function are corrected in hypogonadal mice with preoptic area grafts (HPG/POA). Gonadotropin release and gonadal development are dependent on the presence of GnRH cells within the grafts and GnRH innervation of the median eminence. This study examined the effect of a known modulator of GnR...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Saitoh Y,Silverman AJ,Gibson MJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex chromosome imbalance in males is linked to a supernumerary X chromosome, a condition resulting in Klinefelter syndrome (KS; 47, XXY). KS patients suffer from infertility, hypergonadotropic hypogonadism, and cognitive impairments. Mechanisms of KS pathophysiology are poorly understood and require further exploratio...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wistuba J,Luetjens CM,Stukenborg JB,Poplinski A,Werler S,Dittmann M,Damm OS,Hämäläinen T,Simoni M,Gromoll J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both fructose consumption and increased intracellular glucocorticoid activation have been implicated in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome. Glucocorticoid activation by 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1) depends on hexose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (H6PD), which physically interacts with 11β-HSD...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Senesi S,Legeza B,Balázs Z,Csala M,Marcolongo P,Kereszturi E,Szelényi P,Egger C,Fulceri R,Mandl J,Giunti R,Odermatt A,Bánhegyi G,Benedetti A

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal nutrition can affect the susceptibility of the offspring to metabolic disease later in life, suggesting that this period is a window of opportunity for intervention to reduce the risk of metabolic disease. Resveratrol, a natural polyphenol, has a wide range of beneficial properties including anti-obesogenic, ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ros P,Díaz F,Freire-Regatillo A,Argente-Arizón P,Barrios V,Argente J,Chowen JA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were made unilaterally cryptorchid by cutting the gubernaculum testis at birth. At 100 days age, the rats were injected with 600 IU/kg hCG. A biphasic testosterone response was seen in the scrotal (Scr) testis in response to hCG, with maxima at 1 h and 3 days after injection. The acute peak of testosterone was of...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Huhtaniemi I,Bergh A,Nikula H,Damber JE

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New insulin-secreting cell lines (INS-1 and INS-2) were established from cells isolated from an x-ray-induced rat transplantable insulinoma. The continuous growth of these cells was found to be dependent on the reducing agent 2-mercaptoethanol. Removal of this thiol compound caused a 15-fold drop in total cellular glu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Asfari M,Janjic D,Meda P,Li G,Halban PA,Wollheim CB

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipokines, cytokines mainly produced by adipocytes, are active participants in the regulation of inflammation. Administration of zymosan (ZY) was used to investigate the regulation and role of adipokines during peritonitis in mice. Injection of ZY led to a significant increase in leptin levels in both serum and perit...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Pini M,Gove ME,Sennello JA,van Baal JW,Chan L,Fantuzzi G

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase (EC 1.6.2.4), the enzyme involved in progesterone 17-hydroxylation, was purified to apparent homogeneity by detergent solubilization of the microsomal fractions of liver and testis from untreated rats. The enzymes from these two tissues were then compared with regard to several paramet...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hales DB,Betz G

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was conducted to elucidate the possible molecular mechanisms involved in the antispermatogenic activity of l-CDB-4022, an indenopyridine. In this study 45-d-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with a single oral dose of l-CDB-4022 (2.5 mg/kg) or vehicle, and blood and testes were collected at v...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Koduri S,Hild SA,Pessaint L,Reel JR,Attardi BJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translocator protein (TSPO) is a mitochondrial outer membrane protein of unknown function with high physiological expression in steroidogenic cells. Using TSPO gene-deleted mice, we recently demonstrated that TSPO function is not essential for steroidogenesis. The first link between TSPO and steroidogenesis was establ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tu LN,Zhao AH,Stocco DM,Selvaraj V

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circadian clocks have been described in each tissue of the hypothalamo-pituitary-ovarian axis. Although a role for the clock in the timing of ovulation is indicated, the impact of diseases that disrupt fertility on clock function or the clocks' role in the etiology of these pathologies has yet to be fully appreciated....

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sellix MT,Murphy ZC,Menaker M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin, a recently-discovered hormonal product of the obese gene, circulates in the blood at levels paralleling those of fat reserves and regulates satiety and improves reproductive performance if injected into mice lacking circulating leptin. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that leptin signals metabolic informati...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Spicer LJ,Francisco CC

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diets lacking soy and alpha-alpha derivatives that are considered to be estrogen-free by standard bioassays (uterotrophic assay and vaginal opening) have been revealed to contain considerable amounts of compounds able to transcriptionally activate the estrogen receptors (ERs) and stimulate luciferase expression in sev...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ciana P,Brena A,Sparaciari P,Bonetti E,Di Lorenzo D,Maggi A

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used to study the effects of 17 beta-estradiol on the content of phosphates and on the flux catalyzed by creatine kinase in immature rat uteri. Perifusion with oxygenated medium at 36 C maintained the uteri in a viable state for at least 10 h in vitro during 31P NMR measurement...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Degani H,Victor TA,Kaye AM

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasma fraction rich in thyroid hormone-binding globulin (hTBG, human thyropexin) was injected iv into rabbits in order to see whether thyroid hormone concentrations in plasma would increase by return of T3 and T4 from the extravascular space. For this purpose, both [125I]T3 and [131I]T4 were simultaneously injected...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Wahl R,Schmidberger H,Fessler E,Heinzel W,Schenzle D,Bohner J,Kallee E

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dissociation kinetics of uterine estradiol receptor (UER) from young, middle-aged, and old mice have been studied in vitro and correlated with interactions of the steroid receptor with nuclear suspensions in a cell-free system. Furthermore, we have determined in these various age groups of mice the concentration o...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Belisle S,Bellabarba D,Lehoux JG,Robel P,Baulieu EE

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metalloproteinase inhibitors, such as tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases 1 and 2 (TIMP-1 and -2), play a key role in the regulation of metalloproteinases that modify extracellular matrix composition. Although expression of TIMP-1 within ovarian tissues has been well characterized, little information is available ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Smith GW,McCrone S,Petersen SL,Smith MF

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large-Maf transcription factor v-maf musculoaponeurotic fibrosarcoma oncogene homolog A (MafA) has been found to be crucial for insulin transcription and synthesis and for pancreatic β-cell function and maturation. However, insights about the effects of small Maf factors on β-cells are limited. Our goal was to elu...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nomoto H,Kondo T,Miyoshi H,Nakamura A,Hida Y,Yamashita K,Sharma AJ,Atsumi T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of periparturient secretion of PRL on cytological differentiation of mammary epithelial cells was studied in 17 multiparous, monotocous Holstein cows. Mammary tissue was obtained 10 days prepartum and 10 days postpartum from untreated cows and from cows treated with CB154 (2-Br-alpha-ergokryptin) or CB15...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Akers RM,Bauman DE,Goodman GT,Capuco AV,Tucker HA

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local androgen synthesis in prostate cancer (PC) may contribute to the development of castration-resistant PC (CRPC), but pathways controlling intratumoral steroidogenic enzyme expression in PC are unknown. We investigated the effects of activin, a factor involved in the regulation of PC growth and steroidogenic enzym...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hofland J,van Weerden WM,Steenbergen J,Dits NF,Jenster G,de Jong FH

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that, in prostate cancer cells, androgens up-regulate IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR) by inducing cAMP-response element-binding protein (CREB) activation and CREB-dependent IGF-IR gene transcription through androgen receptor (AR)-dependent membrane-initiated effects. This IGF-IR up-regulation i...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Malaguarnera R,Sacco A,Morcavallo A,Squatrito S,Migliaccio A,Morrione A,Maggiolini M,Belfiore A

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of trabecular bone volume is mediated by local events. Recently, it has been shown that the cytokines interleukin-1 (IL-1), tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha), and TNF beta [also called lymphotoxin (LT)] produced by immune cells all stimulate osteoclast activity, whereas the lymphokine interferon-gamma (I...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Smith DD,Gowen M,Mundy GR

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumoral insulin-producing cells of the RINm5F line display a poor secretory response to D-glucose. Relative to basal insulin output, which corresponds to a fractional release of stored hormone close to 25%/90 min, the glucose-induced increment in insulin release does not exceed 28 +/- 7%. The low efficiency of D-gluco...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Valverde I,Barreto M,Malaisse WJ

更新日期：1988-04-01 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：:There is a growing body of evidence that subtle decreases in maternal thyroid hormone during gestation can impact fetal brain development. The present study examined the impact of graded levels of thyroid hormone insufficiency on brain development in rodents. Maternal thyroid hormone insufficiency was induced by expos...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Goodman JH,Gilbert ME

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent thyroid hormone receptors (TRs) bind to AGGTCA-related motifs as monomers and/or homodimers, and as heterodimers with retinoid X receptors (RXRs) depends on the number, spacing, and orientation of these half-sites. Here we show that recombinant RXR alpha affects TR binding to DNA in diverse ways; it enhance...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ribeiro RC,Apriletti JW,Yen PM,Chin WW,Baxter JD

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wortmannin (5-100 nM), a specific phosphatidyinositol 3-kinase inhibitor, augmented 8 mM glucose-induced insulin secretion from control Sprague Dawley rat islets in a dose-dependent manner. This effect persisted after its removal from the perifusion medium; however, this augmenting effect was reduced by the calcium ch...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zawalich WS,Zawalich KC

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00