Regulation of L-type voltage-gated calcium channels by epidermal growth factor.

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：:The effects of morphine on the release of dopamine from tuberoinfundibular neurons and the release of PRL from the anterior pituitary gland were studied in diestrous female rats. Morphine ions ejected iontophoretically in minute quantities into the arcuate nuclei (using one electrode per nucleus) were found to reduce ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Haskins JT,Gudelsky GA,Moss RL,Porter JC

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that chronic 17β-estradiol (E2) treatment in mice decreases platelet responsiveness, prolongs the tail-bleeding time and protects against acute thromboembolism via the hematopoietic estrogen receptor alpha (ERα), and independently of ERβ. Here, we have explored the respective roles of membrane vs ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Valéra MC,Fontaine C,Lenfant F,Cabou C,Guillaume M,Smirnova N,Kim SH,Chambon P,Katzenellenbogen JA,Katzenellenbogen BS,Payrastre B,Arnal JF

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of TRH gene expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) by leptin is critical for normal function of the thyroid axis in rodents and humans. The TRH neuron in the PVH expresses both leptin and melanocortin-4 receptors, suggesting that both signaling systems may regulate TRH gene ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Guo F,Bakal K,Minokoshi Y,Hollenberg AN

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of the hypophosphatemic effect of thyrocalcitonin (TCT) is uncertain and may involve removal of inorganic phosphate (P1) from the plasma by heretofore unidentified organs. Rats, 192 g. thyroparathyroidectomized 16-24 h earlier, received 100 MRC mU TCT or vehicle (V) SC and 100 muCi 32PO4 iv. One h later ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Meyer RA Jr,Meyer MH

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific uptake by rat liver of human (hGH) and bovine (bGH) GHs labeled with 125I was studied by an in vivo procedure. A significant reduction of the uptake was observed when labeled hormones were injected together with different amounts of the corresponding native GH. This reduction was dose dependent, and the c...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Turyn D,Dellacha JM

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regularly menstruating female rhesus monkeys were implanted sc with Silastic tubing packed with estrone. The implants were replaced every 6-8 months to maintain the serum estrone and estradiol concentrations constantly elevated 1.5-2.5-fold, i.e. in the midfollicular phase range, for 4 yr. Increasing the estrone and e...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Billiar RB,Richardson DW,Little B

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid phosphatase, phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN), is a key element in controlling cell growth and survival and has a well established role as tumor suppressor protein in many neoplasia. Several data indicate that silencing of PTEN gene expression may be relevant in follicular thyroid cell transformation. T...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Tell G,Pines A,Arturi F,Cesaratto L,Adamson E,Puppin C,Presta I,Russo D,Filetti S,Damante G

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular mechanisms underlying unloading-induced reduction of bone formation have not yet been fully understood. In vitro, Runx2 has been suggested to be involved in mechanical signaling in osteoblasts. However, the roles of Runx2 in vivo during the bone response to mechanical stimuli have not yet been known. The pur...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Salingcarnboriboon R,Tsuji K,Komori T,Nakashima K,Ezura Y,Noda M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate (Glu) is the most prevalent excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain and has been implicated in the regulation of GnRH secretion in several mammalian species, including the monkey. To investigate the neuroanatomical basis for Glu-GnRH interactions, we performed an immunocytochemical study at both the light a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Goldsmith PC,Thind KK,Perera AD,Plant TM

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work extends our previous report that the intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of interleukin-1beta(IL-1beta, 80 ng) significantly blunted the testosterone response to 1 U/kg human CG (hCG), an effect that we attributed to the stimulation of inhibitory pathways connecting the hypothalamus to the test...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ogilvie K,Rivier C

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a recently developed microdissection technique, four circumventricular organs were removed from the rat brain, and their contents of LHRH and TRH were measured. The subfornical organ, the organon vasculosum lamia terminalis, the subcommissural organ, the area postrema all contained significant quantities of both ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kizer JS,Palkovits M,Brownstein MJ

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A perifusion system has been developed in which a dose-dependent response of isolated Leydig tumor cells to steroidogenic stimuli, as assessed by the rates of steroid production, can be measured as a function of time. In response to a continuous perifusion for 340 min with a saturating concentration of hCG, ovine LH (...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Segaloff DL,Puett D,Ascoli M

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:p-Tyramine, an endogenous amine with sympathomimetic action, is found in the mammalian hypothalamus. When injected ip, p-tyramine reduced serum PRL without altering LH and TSH serum titers in adult orchidectomized rats and rats subjected to ether or immobilization stress. The hyperprolactinemia achieved by this last p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Becú-Villalobos D,Lacau de Mengido IM,Libertun C

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the presence and localization of the main G protein alpha-subunits in the human fetal adrenal gland during the second trimester of gestation. Immunofluorescence studies conducted on sections from frozen glands obtained immediately after therapeutic abortion indicated tha...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Breault L,Chamoux E,Lehoux JG,Gallo-Payet N

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine diurnal differences in the proportions of receptors that were occupied and activated by basal and stress levels of corticosterone, we measured available type I (mineralocorticoid) and type II (glucocorticoid) adrenal steroid receptor levels in brain, pituitary, and immune tissues of unstressed and acutely s...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Spencer RL,Miller AH,Moday H,Stein M,McEwen BS

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central feature of glucocorticoid (GC)-induced osteoporosis is decreased bone formation, secondary to decreased numbers of functional osteoblasts. We find that ERK activity is essential for serum-induced osteoblast proliferation in vitro because inhibition of MAPK/ERK kinase activity by U0126 completely abolished bo...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Engelbrecht Y,de Wet H,Horsch K,Langeveldt CR,Hough FS,Hulley PA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the possibility that the prepubertal hiatus in gonadotropin secretion in primates is occasioned by an endogenous opioid peptide (EOP)-dependent suppression of pulsatile GnRH release, the ability of an EOP receptor antagonist, naloxone (NAL), to elicit GnRH release was examined indirectly in the rhesus monke...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Medhamurthy R,Gay VL,Plant TM

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding characteristics of 125I-labeled Leu15-gastrin and the molecular identification of the gastrin receptor was investigated in dispersed guinea pig gastric glands. The binding of [125I]gastrin to gastric glands was temperature dependent, saturable, and specific. At 37 C, the binding was rapid, became maximal w...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ramani N,Praissman M

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of estrogen on the synthesis of pituitary PRL mRNA and PRL and the release of PRL into plasma were investigated in male and female normal and hypogonadal (hpg) mice. Because the hpg mouse is totally deficient in hypothalamic GnRH, it provides an excellent model for investigating the effects of estrogen and...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stanley HF,Curtis A,Sheward WJ,Roberts JL,Fink G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of adrenergic stimulation in the regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) in rat pinealocytes was investigated by measuring phosphorylated MAPK using Western blot analysis and a MAPK enzymatic assay. Stimulation with the endogenous neurotransmitter, norepinephrine (NE; a mixed alpha- and beta-adr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ho AK,Chik CL

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fasting increases hypothalamic neuropeptide Y (NPY) and agouti-related peptide (AGRP) messenger RNA (mRNA) and reduces hypothalamic POMC mRNA, and is also characterized by a reduction in plasma leptin, insulin, and glucose, each of which has been implicated in the regulation of hypothalamic gene expression. To further...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mizuno TM,Makimura H,Silverstein J,Roberts JL,Lopingco T,Mobbs CV

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulation of mitogenesis in rat Nb2 node lymphoma cells by human (h) PRL was inhibited by inhibitors of Na+/H+ exchange (viz. amiloride and its analogs) and inhibitors of protein kinases (isoquinolinesulfonamide derivatives). The most potent were ethylisopropylamiloride (EP-Am) (IC50, 13 microM) and H-7, selective f...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Too CK,Walker A,Murphy PR,Cragoe EJ Jr,Jacobs HK,Friesen HG

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen is generally considered to maintain bone mass through suppression of bone resorption. We have previously demonstrated that administration of pharmacological doses of estrogen increases bone formation in rats. Because such high doses of estrogen might induce bone formation through some mechanism other than the...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Chow JW,Lean JM,Chambers TJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:In this study, we demonstrate that disruption of neuroendocrine signaling is a major factor driving disease progression in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-induced chronic relapsing experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, an animal model of multiple sclerosis. Although the initial episode of chronic relapsing ex...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stefferl A,Storch MK,Linington C,Stadelmann C,Lassmann H,Pohl T,Holsboer F,Tilders FJ,Reul JM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic glucocorticoids (GCs), including dexamethasone (DEX), are powerful anti-inflammatory drugs. Long-term use of GCs, however, can result in metabolic side effects such as hyperglycemia, hepatosteatosis, and insulin resistance. The GC receptor (GR) and liver X receptors (LXRα and LXRβ) regulate overlapping genes...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Patel R,Magomedova L,Tsai R,Angers S,Orellana A,Cummins CL

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of an estradiol-chemical delivery system (E2-CDS) for the brain vs. estradiol benzoate (E2-BNZ) in suppressing serum testosterone (T) and weights of the ventral prostate and seminal vesicle in male rats. Also, the role of serum T in the weight reduction of andr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Anderson WR,Rahimy MH,Brewster ME,Bodor N,Simpkins JW

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids are potent inhibitors of prostaglandin (PG) release in vitro, but they fail to influence basal PG production in vivo. To test one possible explanation for this apparent discrepancy in the present study we investigated the effect of dexamethasone (DEX) on basal and antidiuretic hormone-stimulated renal ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Náray-Fejes-Tóth A,Fejes-Tóth G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin acts directly as a mitogen on isolated embryonic tissues but has been shown to be inactive at physiological concentrations on several fetal cell types. Since insulin availability is obligatory for optimal fetal growth, we have investigated its mitogenic actions on chondrocytes isolated from the epiphyseal grow...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hill DJ,de Sousa D

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00