Evidence that serotonin stimulates a prolactin-releasing factor in the rat.

abstract：:The role of beta-endorphin in the stimulation of growth hormone secretion elicited by administration of clonidine (Clon), an alpha2-adrenergic agonist, was investigated in awake, freely moving male rats. Animals were infused slowly with either 1 ml of normal rabbit serum (NRS), beta-endorphin antiserum (beta-end-AS) o...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Bruhn TO,Tresco PA,Mueller GP,Jackson IM

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple unit activity (MUA) was recorded from the adrenocorticotropic area (n. posterior medialis hypothalami, PMH) of unrestrained resting pigeons throughout the 24 h period and compared with plasma corticosterone levels (B). Bilateral electrolytic lesions of the hippocampus suppressed diurnal variations of MUA and ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Bouillé C,Baylé JD

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolactin (PRL) secretion in the female rat is regulated by an endogenous stimulatory rhythm (ESR), which is normally under the tonic inhibition of dopamine (DA). The ESR consists of a nocturnal (N) component which peaks at approximately 03.00 h, and a diurnal (D) component which peaks at approximately 17.00 h. This E...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Arey BJ,Kanyicska B,Freeman ME

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used an in vivo pharmacological approach to investigate the potential influence of serotonin (5-HT) on peptide release from the intermediate lobe (IL) of the rat pituitary. Plasma levels of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) as well as the ultrastructural appearance of IL cells were used as indicators...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Carr JA,Saland LC,Samora A,Benavidez S,Krobert K

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in the activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis after administration of Mycoplasma fermentans were examined. Male rats were injected intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) with heat-inactivated M. fermentas (6 micrograms protein/10 microliters/rat) or vehicle and were killed 2 h later....

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Wohlman A,Gallily R,Yirmiya R,Weidenfeld J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Copulatory behavior in the ovariectomized rat, i.e. the lordosis response (LR) on being mounted by a male, can be induced by administration of either estrogen alone or estrogen followed by progesterone. LR has been shown to be inhibited by lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in certain doses (greater than or equal to 50 ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Sietnieks A,Meyerson BJ

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromocriptine or other dopamine agonists are usually effective for the treatment of prolactin-secreting adenomas. Five to 18% of prolactinomas, however, do not respond to such therapy. We have shown previously that such resistance to bromocriptine correlates with reduced binding to the D2 receptor subtype of dopamine,...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Caccavelli L,Feron F,Morange I,Rouer E,Benarous R,Dewailly D,Jaquet P,Kordon C,Enjalbert A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at evaluating chronic stress models in mice with special attention to morphine treatment. We hypothesized that repeated periods of drug withdrawal induce chronic stress. To verify this hypothesis, mice were made dependent on morphine and then subjected to several types of repeated withdrawa...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Zelena D,Barna I,Mlynarik M,Gupta OP,Jezova D,Makara GB

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sleep-wakefulness pattern and brain protein levels were determined in rats for 3 h following these conditions: administration of an inhibitor of protein synthesis (anisomycin), administration of several doses of rat growth hormone (GH) or thyrotropin, and administration of a combination of anisomycin + GH or thyro...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Drucker-Colín RR,Spanis CW,Hunyadi J,Sassin JF,McGaugh JL

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of intraventricular and intravenous (i.v.) hypertonic saline on plasma and perfusate arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OT) levels was determined. A push-pull technique was used to sample third ventricular cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the conscious unrestrained rat. Intraventricular perfusion of hyper...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Morris M,Barnard RR Jr,Sain LE

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence in rodents suggests that a prolactin locally synthesized and released within the brain can act together with that taken up from the circulation to modulate neuroendocrine responses. The present study was designed to identify the regional patterns of prolactin expression in the adult and developin...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Roselli CE,Bocklandt S,Stadelman HL,Wadsworth T,Vilain E,Stormshak F

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between concentrations of vasopressin in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was examined under basal and hypoxic conditions in unanesthetized and unrestrained adult female sheep. Under basal conditions mean (+/- SE) concentration of vasopressin (4.1 +/- 0.3 pg/ml) in CSF was significantly (p less th...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Stark RI,Daniel SS,Husain MK,Zubrow AB,James LS

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary transcription factor-1 (Pit-1 or GHF-1) is a transcription factor specific to the anterior pituitary and is involved in the expression and regulation of the growth hormone (GH), prolactin (PRL) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) beta-subunit genes. The expression of these three genes can be modulated by c...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： González-Parra S,Chowen JA,García-Segura LM,Argente J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A role for glutamate in signalling mechanisms in the mammalian pineal gland is suggested by the high concentration of the transmitter in pinealocytes and the expression of glutamate receptor subunits in the rat gland. A single type of glutamate binding site has been characterized in the rat and bovine pineal gland, pr...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Mick G

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differences in plasma prolactin concentration between normal and estradiol-implanted male rats were compared after treatment with 3 different stimulating agents of prolactin secretion [ether anesthesia, pimozide (a "specific' dopaminergic receptor blocking agent) and TRH] using conscious, free-moving rats implante...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Piercy M,Shin SH

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medial parvocellular paraventricular corticotropin-releasing hormone (mPVN CRH) cells are critical in generating hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses to systemic interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta). However, although it is understood that catecholamine inputs are important in initiating mPVN CRH cell responses...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Buller K,Xu Y,Dayas C,Day T

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[125I]-neuropeptide Y receptors were characterized in the rat pituitary gland using quantitative autoradiography. Scatchard analysis of saturation isotherms showed high affinity (Kd 8.5 x 10(-11) M) and single class of binding sites (Bmax 0.22 pmol/mg of protein) in the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, with no s...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Torda T,Saavedra JM

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is extensive evidence that serotonin (5-HT) is implicated in the neuroendocrine control regulating the secretion of several anterior pituitary hormones. It has also been reported that the posterior pituitary is necessary for prolactin (PRL) response to 5-HT as well as to suckling, in which 5-HT implication has b...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Balsa JA,Sánchez-Franco F,Pazos F,Lara JI,Lorenzo MJ,Maldonado G,Cacicedo L

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a great deal of conflicting data regarding the issue of whether androgens influence opiate receptors in the whole male rat brain. Although Hahn and Fishman initially reported that long-term castration produced a large increase in the density of opiate-binding sites, relative to controls, no other independent ...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Cicero TJ,O'Connor LH,Bell RD

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mu-opioid receptor (OR) is involved in several aspects of female reproductive neuroendocrinology, such as the control of gonadotropin release and the display of lordosis behavior. Even though the neuroendocrine events modulated by mu-ORs are steroid hormone-dependent, few studies have shown how steroid hormones su...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Acosta-Martinez M,Etgen AM

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we utilized the 7315a PRL- and ACTH-secreting tumor to induce a hyperprolactinemic (HP) state sufficient to profoundly suppress the postcastration LH rise in female rats. Tumor-induced prolactin levels which ranged 2,000-3,000 ng/ml substantially reduced the LH rise in both ovariectomized (OVX) an...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Shu C,Selmanoff M

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an assessment of endocrine influences on the actions of morphine, we have studied the effects of intracerebroventricular administration of somatostatin and thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) on the antinociceptive, temperature and cataleptic responses to subcutaneous morphine in both intact and hypophysect...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Kasson BG,George R

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Djungarian hamster, short photoperiods induce regression of testes and accessory glands. There is evidence that the length of time melatonin levels are elevated is the signal conveying the photoperiodic effects to the neuroendocrine axis. When the temporal course of decompression of the pattern of pineal melato...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Hoffmann K,Illnerová H

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity, and concentrations of monoamines, monoamine metabolites and oxytocin (OT) were measured in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of sheep during late pregnancy, labour, parturition, vaginocervical stimulation, lamb separation and suckling. Concentrations of AChE, 4-hydroxy-3 methoxyphenyl...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Kendrick KM,Keverne EB,Baldwin BA,Sharman DF

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic dopamine (DA) tonically inhibits prolactin (PRL) release from the anterior pituitary gland. Transient escapes from this DA tone elicit a pronounced potentiation of the PRL-releasing action of secretagogues such as thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH). Previous evidence has suggested that modulation of Ca(2...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： del Mar Hernández M,García Ferreiro RE,García DE,Hernández ME,Clapp C,Martínez de la Escalera G

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present paper the effects of estradiol and testosterone on the expression of the types 1 and 5 somatostatin receptors (sst1 and sst5) in the goldfish forebrain and pituitary were investigated. Estradiol increased the sst1 expression in both the forebrain and pituitary in a dose- and time-dependent manner. In ad...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Canosa LF,Lin X,Peter RE

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observations in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model for multiple sclerosis (MS), have indicated that a low activity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system is accompanied by a high susceptibility for EAE in rat strains and that elevated corticosteroid levels are necessary for spontaneous r...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Purba JS,Raadsheer FC,Hofman MA,Ravid R,Polman CH,Kamphorst W,Swaab DF

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An abolishment of 24 h periodicity of the adrenocortical activity was observed in rats subjected to a prolonged food deprivation of 7--8 days. Total locomotor activity progressively decreased and its circadian rhythm faded out in a similar fashion as the adrenocortical rhythm. The circadian rhythms of both locomotor a...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Kobayashi K,Takahashi K

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Differences in the cardiovascular and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functions at high altitudes (HAs) between visitors to and natives of HA were examined. METHODS:The cardiovascular functions and peripheral oxygen saturation (SPO2) were monitored, and the cortisol awakening response (CAR) and nig...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Park JY,Hwang TK,Park HK,Ahn RS

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The expression of somatostatin receptors (SSTRs) and dopamine receptor 2 (DR2) in neuroendocrine tumors is of clinical importance as somatostatin analogues and dopamine agonists can be used for their localization and/or treatment. The objective of this study is to examine the expression of the five SSTR subty...

journal_title：Neuroendocrinology

authors： Kanakis G,Grimelius L,Spathis A,Tringidou R,Rassidakis GZ,Öberg K,Kaltsas G,Tsolakis AV

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00