Chromatographic evidence for vasotocin biosynthesis by cultured pineal ependymal cells from rat fetuses.

abstract：:We have developed and characterized a primary cell culture system to study the regulation of 17 alpha-hydroxylase cytochrome P450 (P45017 alpha) gene expression in bovine thecal cells. Conditions have been established for the dispersal and growth of thecal cells isolated from bovine follicles, which maintain the expre...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Demeter-Arlotto M,Rainey WE,Simpson ER

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of the proopiomelanocortin (POMC) gene by normal lung and thyroid was examined by measurement of the content of ACTH, beta-lipotropin (beta LPH), and beta-endorphin (beta EP) in porcine lung and thyroid tissue. Acid extracts of normal porcine lung and thyroid tissue each contained appreciable amounts of...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Clements JA,Funder JW,Tracy K,Morgan FJ,Campbell DJ,Lewis P,Hearn MT

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that the circadian rhythm in hepatic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase expression (a limiting catalytic step of gluconeogenesis) and hepatic glucose production is maintained by both daily oscillation in autonomic inputs to the liver and night feeding behavior. However, increased glycemia and reduced melato...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nogueira TC,Lellis-Santos C,Jesus DS,Taneda M,Rodrigues SC,Amaral FG,Lopes AM,Cipolla-Neto J,Bordin S,Anhê GF

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In osteoblasts, retinoic acid (RA) modulates the synthesis of various proteins, including collagen. However, little is known about the effects of RA on the regulation of interstitial collagenase synthesis and collagen degradation. After treatment of primary osteoblast-enriched (Ob) cells from fetal rat calvariae with ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Varghese S,Rydziel S,Jeffrey JJ,Canalis E

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:α7-Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) agonists confer protection against a wide variety of cytotoxic insults and suppress oxidative stress and apoptosis in various cell systems, including hepatocytes. We recently demonstrated that nicotine, when combined with a high-fat diet (HFD), triggers oxidative stress, a...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hasan MK,Friedman TC,Sims C,Lee DL,Espinoza-Derout J,Ume A,Chalfant V,Lee ML,Sinha-Hikim I,Lutfy K,Liu Y,Mahata SK,Sinha-Hikim AP

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:Based on the finding that retinoic acid (RA) increases 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2D3] receptor number in ROS 17/2 cells, we investigated the effects of RA on the ability of 1,25-(OH)2D3 to regulate alkaline phosphatase activity and PTH-responsive adenylate cyclase in these cells. A maximally effective dose of...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Grigoriadis AE,Petkovich PM,Rosenthal EE,Heersche JN

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine parathyroid organoids were maintained for up to 12 days of culture in the presence or absence of insulin. Insulin-treated organoids secreted more PTH and secretory protein-I (SP-I) than did untreated organoids at both 1.4 and 1.8 mM Ca, concentrations chosen to promote partially elevated and suppressed secretio...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hinton DA,MacGregor RR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete hypothalamic deafferentation, either limited to the median eminence, arcuate nucleus, and basal parts of ventromedial nuclei, or comprising ventromedial nuclei and dorsomedial hypothalamus as well reduced considerably the rise of immunoassayable serum TSH in adult male rats rendered hypothyroid by administrat...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hefco E,Krulich L,Aschenbrenner JE

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin stimulation of glucose transport involves the translocation of vesicles containing the glucose transporter Glut 4 to the plasma membrane. Since low mol wt GTP-binding proteins (LMW-GTP-binding proteins) have been implicated in the regulation of vesicular trafficking, we have analyzed these proteins in adipocyt...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Cormont M,Tanti JF,Grémeaux T,Van Obberghen E,Le Marchand-Brustel Y

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive neurophysin (Np) is demonstrated by the immunoperoxidase technique not only within neurones of the classical hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal system, but also in extrahypothalamic perikarya and fibers. Np-positive perikarya are found in the triangular nucleus of the septum. Np fibers join the stria terminal...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Sofroniew MV,Weindl A

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testicular cytosol from Sprague-Dawley rats was shown to possess an estradiol binding component which exhibited the properties of a receptor. Specific binding of estradiol by the receptor was shown, at 4C in vitro, to reach equilibrium by 6 h. That level of binding was maintained at a plateau for 18 h. Estradiol bindi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Abney TO

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have attempted to determine if the resistance of the X-linked hypophosphatemic mouse to the actions of 1,25(OH)2D3 is due to abnormal cytosolic receptors for this hormone. Cytoplasmic 1,25-dihydroxy-vitamin D3 [1,25(OH)3D3] receptors were demonstrated in hypophosphatemic (HYP) mouse tissues including intestine, kid...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Seino Y,Sierra RI,Ichikawa M,Avioli LV

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative light microscope radioautographic approach was utilized to locate specific binding sites for blood-borne 125I-labeled ACTH1-24 in the rat brain. Specific binding occurred exclusively in the external zone of the median eminence, adjacent to the primary portal plexus, and to a lesser extent in the ventr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： van Houten M,Khan MN,Khan RJ,Posner BI

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has previously been reported that treatment of rat luteal cells and human granulosa luteal cells with hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) results in a significant inhibition of steroid production. The mechanism of inhibition in the former was found to be at the level of cholesterol transport into the mitochondria, whereas in ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Stocco DM,Wells J,Clark BJ

更新日期：1993-12-01 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：:The disappearance of 125-I-ACTH from the circulation of 4 pregnant and fetal sheep has been followed after a single injection to the ewe or fetus. The mean metabolic clearance rate for the fetus and the ewe was 55 and 34 ml/min/kg respectively, giving a half-life in each case of about 1 min. The higher fetal than mate...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Jones CT,Luther E,Ritchie JW,Worthington D

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on glycogen metabolism and the binding of [125I]iodo-EGF to receptors in fetal rat hepatocytes have been examined. The actions of EGF have been compared with those of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and insulin. EGF (0.1-45 nM) stimulated dose-dependent increases in [1...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Freemark M

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which the proto-oncogene, c-fos, is up-regulated in response to PGE2 in the mouse osteoblastic (MC3T3-E1) cell line was investigated using RT-PCR. c-fos messenger RNA up-regulation by dmPGE2 is rapid, starting 10 min post stimulation, and transient. The specific protein kinase A (PKA) inhibitor, H89, ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fitzgerald J,Dietz TJ,Hughes-Fulford M

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate ester are the most abundant circulating adrenal steroids in humans. Administration of DHEA has been reported to have beneficial effects on obesity, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and atherosclerosis in obese rodents, although its effects on insulin resistance have not been full...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kimura M,Tanaka S,Yamada Y,Kiuchi Y,Yamakawa T,Sekihara H

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenal secretory rates of catecholamines in response to a repeated stimulus have not been described. We have used repeated small hemorrhages spaced 24 h apart in pentobarbital anesthetized dogs prepared with a chronic adrenal venous catheter to study this question. Our results confirm earlier reports that an initial ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Lilly MP,Engeland WC,Gann DS

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tear fluid is known to contain many different hormones with relevance for ocular surface homeostasis. We studied the presence and functional role of insulin-like factor 3 (INSL3) and its cognate receptor RXFP2 (relaxin/insulin-like family peptide receptor 2) at the ocular surface and in tears. Expression of human INSL...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hampel U,Klonisch T,Sel S,Schulze U,Garreis F,Seitmann H,Zouboulis CC,Paulsen FP

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the importance of estrogen in osteoporosis, the effects of decreased estrogen production using sensitive measurements of bone mineral metabolism were studied in oophorectomized rats. Serum levels of ionized calcium, bone gla protein (BGP), vitamin D metabolites (25-hydroxyvitamin D and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ismail F,Epstein S,Fallon MD,Thomas SB,Reinhardt TA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of ovarian follicles undergo atresia through a mechanism involving apoptotic cell death. Although GnRH and its agonists have been shown to suppress ovarian growth and differentiation in hypophysectomized rats, studies on the induction of follicle atresia by GnRH are contradictory. In the present study, th...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Billig H,Furuta I,Hsueh AJ

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay was developed to detect tritium-labeled ovine FSH beta-subunit [( 3H]oFSH beta) secreted from primary ovine pituitary cultures. This procedure used affinity-enriched antibodies raised against reduced and carbamylmethylated oFSH beta (RCM-oFSH beta) in a two-cycle immunoextraction procedure. A discrete species...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Whitfield GK,Miller WL

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether maternal melatonin could be transported in milk to suckling rats was investigated because melatonin is probably not produced in these animals during the first 10 days of life. [3H]Melatonin was found to be rapidly transferred from the maternal circulation into lactating mammary tissue, and the ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Reppert SM,Klein DC

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study analyzes the role of the autonomic nervous system, the pituitary gland, ACTH, dexamethasone (DEX), and thyroid hormones in the regulation of 5'deiodinase (5'D) in the hypothalamus (HP) and adrenal gland (AG) of the rat. 5'D activity was analyzed in rats under basal conditions (22 C) and during cold exposure...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Anguiano B,Quintanar A,Luna M,Navarro L,Ramírez del Angel A,Pacheco P,Valverde C

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravascular injections of adrenocorticotropic hormone in hypophysectomized rats were approximately 3 times more effective in stimulating increases in plasma corticosteroid concentration when given at the offset rather than the onset of the daily photoperiod (12 h:12 h light-dark cycle). Reversal of the photoperiodic...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ottenweller JE,Meier AH,Ferrell BR,Horseman ND,Proctor A

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific binding sites for PRL were identified on isolated intestinal epithelial cells from both male and female rabbits. These receptors exhibited a very high affinity for PRL (Kd = 5 x 10(-11) M) and were immunologically very similar to the well characterized mammary PRL receptor. About 3500 PRL receptors/cell were ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dusanter-Fourt I,Belair L,Gespach C,Djiane J

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mammalian ovaries contain sympathetic neurons expressing the low affinity neurotropin receptor (p75NTR). To date neither the role these neurons might play in ovarian physiology nor their embryological origin is known. Immunohistochemistry was used to detect postnatal changes in distribution and number of both p75NTR-p...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Dees WL,Hiney JK,McArthur NH,Johnson GA,Dissen GA,Ojeda SR

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00