Iodothyronine 5'-deiodinase is present in mouse sublingual gland.

abstract：:The effects of insulin treatment and dietary glucose on the responsiveness of adipose tissue to insulin and GH after hypophysectomy were studied. Male rats, 130-150 g, were hypophysectomized. Glucose metabolism was measured by determining the production of CO2 from [14C]glucose and the incorporation of glucose into li...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Gause I,Isaksson O,Lindahl A,Edén S

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) is produced by the vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) of injured and atherosclerotic arteries, in which it may exert autocrine control over SMCs by binding to its principal receptors, NPR-B and NPR-C, but few studies have examined the factors that regulate CNP expression in human SMCs...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mendonça MC,Doi SQ,Glerum S,Sellitti DF

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Androgens are the primary regulators of epididymal structure and functions. Principal cells are the major cell type of the tissue and are particularly sensitive to androgen removal. To distinguish the direct effects of androgens on this cell type, DNA microarrays were used to identify androgen-regulated genes in the m...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Seenundun S,Robaire B

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：: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：:In the bovine ovary, thecal cells are the only cell type capable of expressing the CYP17 gene in response to LH. With the onset of ovulation and luteinization in the cow, there is complete loss of P450c17alpha expression. To characterize the molecular mechanisms involved in tissue-specific regulation of the CYP17 gene...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Borroni R,Liu Z,Simpson ER,Hinshelwood MM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of ACTH and the Ca++ ionophore, A23187, on steroidogenesis and phospholipid metabolism during incubation of dispersed rat adrenal cells. Increasing doses of ACTH elicited nearly parallel increases in corticosterone production and adrenal inositide (mono- and di-) concentrations. As reported pre...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Farese RV,Sabir MA,Larson RE

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)ergic nerves innervate both the neurohypophysis and the hypothalamus. To test the hypothesis that VIP is a releasing factor for neurohypophyseal hormones, rats were given intracerebroventricular (icv) infusions of VIP in doses varying from 0.3 pmol/kg.min to 3 nmol/kg.min for 5 m...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bardrum B,Ottesen B,Fahrenkrug J,Fuchs AR

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily of transcription factors, is activated by aldosterone and mediates its natriferic action in tight epithelia. MR is also expressed in nonepithelial tissues. Importantly, it mediates the deleterious effects of inappropriately high aldoster...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Aguilar-Sánchez C,Hernández-Díaz I,Lorenzo-Díaz F,Navarro JF,Hughes TE,Giraldez T,Alvarez de la Rosa D

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolic consequences of visceral obesity have been associated with amplification of glucocorticoid action by 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11beta-HSD1) in adipose tissue. This study aimed to assess in a rat model of diet-induced obesity the effects of pharmacological 11beta-HSD1 inhibition on the m...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Berthiaume M,Laplante M,Festuccia W,Gélinas Y,Poulin S,Lalonde J,Joanisse DR,Thieringer R,Deshaies Y

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on collagen and protein synthesis in clone MC3T30-E1, a cell line which retains osteoblast-like characteristics. EGF at concentrations of 2-50 ng/ml significantly the hydroxyproline content of the cell layer. These effects were completely abolished by the add...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hiramatsu M,Kumegawa M,Hatakeyama K,Yajima T,Minami N,Kodama H

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of short-chain fatty acid receptors GPR41/FFAR3 and GPR43/ free fatty acid receptor 2 (FFAR2) was studied in the gastrointestinal tract of transgenic monomeric red fluorescent protein (mRFP) reporter mice. In the stomach free fatty acid receptor 3 (FFAR3)-mRFP was expressed in a subpopulation of ghrelin...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Nøhr MK,Pedersen MH,Gille A,Egerod KL,Engelstoft MS,Husted AS,Sichlau RM,Grunddal KV,Poulsen SS,Han S,Jones RM,Offermanns S,Schwartz TW

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrogen deficiency causes bone loss by increasing the number of bone-resorbing osteoclasts. Selective p38α MAPK inhibitors prevent bone-wasting effects of estrogen withdrawal but implicated mechanisms remain to be identified. Here, we show that inactivation of the p38α-encoding gene in osteoblast lineage cells with t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Thouverey C,Caverzasio J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating levels of the pancreatic beta-cell peptide hormone amylin and the gut peptide PYY[3-36] increase after nutrient ingestion. Both have been implicated as short-term signals of meal termination with anorexigenic and weight-reducing effects. However, their combined effects are unknown. We report that the combi...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Roth JD,Coffey T,Jodka CM,Maier H,Athanacio JR,Mack CM,Weyer C,Parkes DG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of removing extracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+e), depleting intracellular Ca2+ (Ca2+i), inhibiting cAMP-dependent calmodulin, and blocking voltage-sensitive Ca2+ channels on the secretion of ACTH by perifused dispersed rat anterior pituitary cells. The cells were stimulated with synthetic arginine vasopr...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Won JG,Oki Y,Orth DN

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-minded 1 (SIM1) mutations are associated with obesity in mice and humans. Haploinsufficiency of mouse Sim1 causes hyperphagic obesity with increased linear growth and enhanced sensitivity to a high-fat diet, a phenotype similar to that of agouti yellow and melanocortin 4 receptor knockout mice. To investigate t...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Kublaoui BM,Holder JL Jr,Tolson KP,Gemelli T,Zinn AR

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyromimetics represent a class of experimental drugs that can stimulate tissue-selective thyroid hormone action. As such, thyromimetics should have effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid (HPT) axis, but details of this action and the subsequent effects on systemic thyroid hormone levels have not been reported ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Ferrara SJ,Bourdette D,Scanlan TS

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies that bind to the TSH receptor were obtained by an autoantiidiotypic approach in which immunization of BALB/c mice was performed with mixtures of bovine (b) and human (h) TSH. Two of 28 positive wells were selected for cloning and characterization: D2 and 4G11. Their antiidiotypic character was ev...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Hill BL,Erlanger BF

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of sex steroids on the growth and differentiation of target tissues requires the presence of specific intracellular receptors. We compared the distribution of cells containing estrogen receptor (ER) and/or progesterone receptor (PR) in rabbit uterus by immunohistochemistry using monoclonal antibodies direct...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zaino RJ,Clarke CL,Feil PD,Satyaswaroop PG

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：:Leptin enhances the glucose utilization in most insulin target tissues and paradoxically decreases it in white adipose tissue (WAT), but knowledge of the mechanisms underlying the inhibitory effect of central leptin on the insulin-dependent glucose uptake in WAT is limited. After 7 d intracerebroventricular leptin tre...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Bonzón-Kulichenko E,Fernández-Agulló T,Moltó E,Serrano R,Fernández A,Ros M,Carrascosa JM,Arribas C,Martínez C,Andrés A,Gallardo N

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have examined the effects of FSH, forskolin, and (Bu)2cAMP on messenger RNA (mRNA) levels for all known subunits of cAMP-dependent protein kinase in rat Sertoli cells, using newly developed complementary DNA (cDNA) probes. mRNAs for the three regulatory subunits [RI alpha, RII51, (RII beta), an...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Oyen O,Sandberg M,Eskild W,Levy FO,Knutsen G,Beebe S,Hansson V,Jahnsen T

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the pituitary, GABA regulates the release of several hormones via different receptors. GABA(C) receptors are heterooligomers that differ from GABA(A) receptors in that they contain p-subunits and are insensitive to bicuculline. However, molecular and functional evidence for the presence of GABA(C) receptors outside...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Boue-Grabot E,Taupignon A,Tramu G,Garret M

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IGF1-a small, single-chain, secreted peptide in mammals-is essential for normal somatic growth and is involved in a variety of other physiological and pathophysiological processes. IGF1 expression appears to be controlled by several different signaling mechanisms in mammals, with GH playing a key role by activating an...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Rotwein P

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early obesity and late onset of insulin resistance associated with hormonal imbalances occur in FSH receptor-deficient follitropin receptor knockout female mice. This study tests the hypothesis that chronic high-fat diet aggravates obesogenic changes in a depot-specific manner and explores some molecular links of horm...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Zhang H,Chen X,Aravindakshan J,Sairam MR

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldosterone selectivity in mineralocorticoid target tissues has been suggested to be due to 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11-OHSD), which, by inactivating the endogenous glucocorticoids cortisol and corticosterone (CS), would allow aldosterone to bind to the mineralocorticoid receptor that has equal affinity f...

journal_title：Endocrinology

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

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermediate filament protein nestin was originally found to be expressed in neuronal progenitor cells, but recent studies have shown that other cell types, including endocrine and vascular endothelial cells, express nestin. In the present study, we examined the expression and localization of nestin in the ovaries...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Takahashi N,Itoh MT,Ishizuka B

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF alpha) has been localized to the anterior pituitary, specifically to the lactotroph and somatotroph cell populations, by our previous studies. Since pituitary lactotrophs are known to undergo growth in response to estrogens, we have used an estradiol-induced pituitary hyperplasia/...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Borgundvaag B,Kudlow JE,Mueller SG,George SR

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under acute stress conditions in the rat, there is rapid and transient increase in circulating prolactin (PRL). This leads to an elevated expression of the long form of PRLR (PRLR-L) first in the hypothalamus and the choroid plexus. This increase in PRL is involved in the inhibition of stress-induced hypocalcemia and ...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Fujikawa T,Tamura K,Kawase T,Mori Y,Sakai RR,Sakuma K,Yamaguch A,Ogata M,Soya H,Nakashima K

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present report, the action of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) on testicular steroid hormone formation was studied. For this purpose, the direct effects of LIF were evaluated on basal and human (h)CG-stimulated testosterone synthesis by cultured, purified Leydig cells isolated from porcine testes. LIF reduced (...

journal_title：Endocrinology

authors： Mauduit C,Goddard I,Besset V,Tabone E,Rey C,Gasnier F,Dacheux F,Benahmed M

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00