The uterine myometrium is a target for increased levels of activin A during pregnancy.

Abstract:

:Activin A is a dimeric protein hormone that regulates numerous cellular functions. A clear physiological role for this molecule in pregnancy is suggested by previous studies in the human, wherein activin A rises dramatically as women approach parturition. To determine whether the rodent is a suitable animal model for further studies of activin action during pregnancy, the serum concentration of activin A was measured in pregnant rats. Activin A was detected in the serum of pregnant rats, beginning on day 12, and the serum concentration rose progressively through gestation (22-fold) and dramatically (140-fold) in labor. The potential target tissues for circulating activin were then identified in two ways. First, iodinated activin was injected into pregnant rats, and the tissues targeted by labeled ligand were identified in vivo. A tissue targeted by activin A in the pregnant rat was the uterine myometrium. To determine the ligand specificity of the uterine myometrial cells, the uteri of pregnant rats were collected and analyzed by in situ ligand binding. 125I-activin A binding was specific for the uterus myometrium, and the ligand binding was competed by unlabeled activin A but not by inhibin A. This result suggests that the receptor in this tissue compartment is an activin-specific receptor. The production of abundant activin A and the ability of exogenous ligand to target the myometrium of the uterus provides a pathway by which activin could regulate uterine function during pregnancy.

journal_name

Endocrinology

journal_title

Endocrinology

authors

Draper LB,Chong H,Wang E,Woodruff TK

doi

10.1210/endo.138.7.5231

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-07-01 00:00:00

pages

3042-6

issue

7

eissn

0013-7227

issn

1945-7170

journal_volume

138

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Specific receptor-mediated inhibition by synthetic atrial natriuretic factor of hormone-stimulated steroidogenesis in cultured bovine adrenal cells.

    abstract::The effect of synthetic atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) on adrenal steroidogenesis has been studied in primary culture of bovine adrenal cells. ANF-(8-33) produced a potent 40-70% inhibition of angiotensin II-, ACTH-, PGE1-, and forskolin-stimulated secretion of aldosterone production from zona glomerulosa cells with ...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-115-4-1636

    authors: De Léan A,Racz K,Gutkowska J,Nguyen TT,Cantin M,Genest J

    更新日期:1984-10-01 00:00:00

  • Freeze fracture morphology of thyroid tight junctions in goats with different thyrotropin stimulation.

    abstract::In the thyroid follicles and blood of goats with congenital hypothyroidism and goiter, abnormal iodoproteins (e.g. iodoalbumin) are found. To study the mechanism involved in the passage of these proteins between the follicles and the blood, the morphology of tight junctions in goiters and normal thyroids of goats was ...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-117-1-114

    authors: van Uigen AJ,van Dijk JE,Koch CA,de Vijlder JJ

    更新日期:1985-07-01 00:00:00

  • Effects of Acupuncture, RU-486 on the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Chronically Stressed Adult Male Rats.

    abstract::We have recently reported that pretreatment with electroacupuncture (EA) at stomach meridian point 36 (St36) prevents the chronic cold-stress increase in the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA), an action that may be under central control. Given that treatment for stress-related symptoms usually begins after ons...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/EN.2015-1018

    authors: Eshkevari L,Mulroney SE,Egan R,Lao L

    更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00

  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Integrating Environmental Influences.

    abstract::There are now robust data supporting the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) paradigm. This includes human and animal data focusing on nutrition or environmental chemicals during development. However, the term DOHaD has not been generally accepted as the official term to be used when one is concerned w...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/EN.2015-1394

    authors: Heindel JJ,Balbus J,Birnbaum L,Brune-Drisse MN,Grandjean P,Gray K,Landrigan PJ,Sly PD,Suk W,Cory Slechta D,Thompson C,Hanson M

    更新日期:2015-10-01 00:00:00

  • Discordant effects of aging on prolactin and luteinizing hormone-beta messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the female rat.

    abstract::To examine the molecular genetic basis for the age-related increase in PRL secretion and decrease in LH production in the rat, we measured steady state levels of PRL and LH beta mRNA in pituitary homogenates and cell lysates from monolayer adenohypophyseal cultures. These mRNA levels were compared with the correspondi...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-126-2-773

    authors: Stewart DA,Blackman MR,Kowatch MA,Danner DB,Roth GS

    更新日期:1990-02-01 00:00:00

  • The hepatic extraction of gastric inhibitory polypeptide and insulin.

    abstract::The hepatic extractions of gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) and insulin were determined using in vitro and in vivo methods to assess the role of the liver in GIP metabolism and the possible effect of GIP on the hepatic extraction of insulin. During in vitro studies using the isolated perfused rat liver, infusion o...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-115-3-1011

    authors: Hanks JB,Andersen DK,Wise JE,Putnam WS,Meyers WC,Jones RS

    更新日期:1984-09-01 00:00:00

  • PLIN2 Is Essential for Trophoblastic Lipid Droplet Accumulation and Cell Survival During Hypoxia.

    abstract::Trophoblast hypoxia and injury, key components of placental dysfunction, are associated with fetal growth restriction and other complications of pregnancy. Accumulation of lipid droplets has been found in hypoxic nonplacental cells. Unique to pregnancy, lipid accumulation in the placenta might perturb lipid transport ...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/en.2018-00752

    authors: Bildirici I,Schaiff WT,Chen B,Morizane M,Oh SY,O'Brien M,Sonnenberg-Hirche C,Chu T,Barak Y,Nelson DM,Sadovsky Y

    更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00

  • Fasting regulates hypothalamic neuropeptide Y, agouti-related peptide, and proopiomelanocortin in diabetic mice independent of changes in leptin or insulin.

    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

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo.140.10.6966

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

    更新日期:1999-10-01 00:00:00

  • The cell surface form of colony-stimulating factor-1 is biologically active in bone in vivo.

    abstract::The specific biological function of the cell surface or membrane-bound isoform of colony-stimulating factor-1 (mCSF-1) is not well understood. To help define the role of this isoform in bone, we developed a transgenic mouse in which targeted expression of human mCSF-1 in osteoblasts was achieved under the control of t...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/en.2002-221071

    authors: Yao GQ,Wu JJ,Sun BH,Troiano N,Mitnick MA,Insogna K

    更新日期:2003-08-01 00:00:00

  • Inhibition of hypothalamic thyrotropin-releasing hormone messenger ribonucleic acid during food deprivation.

    abstract::Food deprivation in laboratory rats induces profound changes in the neuroendocrine system. We have investigated the hypothalamic and pituitary responses of the hypothalamo-pituitary thyroid axis to 48-h food deprivation in Sprague-Dawley rats. Peripheral T3 and hypophysial portal TRH were measured by RIA, and TSH beta...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-129-5-2714

    authors: Blake NG,Eckland DJ,Foster OJ,Lightman SL

    更新日期:1991-11-01 00:00:00

  • Orexins/hypocretins act in the posterior paraventricular thalamic nucleus during repeated stress to regulate facilitation to novel stress.

    abstract::Orexins/hypocretins heavily innervate the posterior division of the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (pPVT), which expresses both orexin receptor types. The pPVT is important for adaptations to repeated stress, particularly the ability to facilitate to novel stress after repeated stress exposure. Here, we exami...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/en.2011-1652

    authors: Heydendael W,Sharma K,Iyer V,Luz S,Piel D,Beck S,Bhatnagar S

    更新日期:2011-12-01 00:00:00

  • Estrogen receptor-immunoreactive glia, endothelia, and ependyma in guinea pig preoptic area and median eminence: electron microscopy.

    abstract::The presence of estrogen receptors (ERs) in nonneural cells in brain, including glia, ependyma, and endothelia, has not previously been documented with electron microscopy. This study employed immunocytochemistry to investigate whether ER immunoreactivity (ER-ir) is present in glial, ependymal, or endothelial cells in...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo.130.1.1727710

    authors: Langub MC Jr,Watson RE Jr

    更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00

  • Disrupted TSH Receptor Expression in Female Mouse Lung Fibroblasts Alters Subcellular IGF-1 Receptor Distribution.

    abstract::A relationship between the actions of TSH and IGF-1 was first recognized several decades ago. The close physical and functional associations between their respective receptors (TSHR and IGF-1R) has been described more recently in thyroid epithelium and human orbital fibroblasts as has the noncanonical behavior of IGF-...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/en.2015-1464

    authors: Atkins SJ,Lentz SI,Fernando R,Smith TJ

    更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00

  • Djungarian hamsters exhibit reproductive responses to changes in daylength at extreme photoperiods.

    abstract::In seasonally breeding species, an animal's photoperiodic history (the daylength or photoperiod previously experienced) influences the reproductive response to new photoperiods. However, this has only been examined over a relatively narrow range of photoperiods. We assessed whether Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungor...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-122-6-2634

    authors: Rivkees SA,Hall DA,Weaver DR,Reppert SM

    更新日期:1988-06-01 00:00:00

  • Selective deficiency of guanine nucleotide-binding protein Go in two dopamine-resistant pituitary tumors.

    abstract::G proteins were quantitated by immunoblot in normal rat anterior pituitary, an estrone-induced pituitary adenoma, and in two transplantable pituitary tumors resistant to dopamine, 7315a and MtTW15. Antisera specific for the alpha o and beta subunits or the alpha i subunit of G proteins were tested with all preparation...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-122-3-1176

    authors: Collu R,Bouvier C,Lagacé G,Unson CG,Milligan G,Goldsmith P,Spiegel AM

    更新日期:1988-03-01 00:00:00

  • NADPH-cytochrome P-450 reductase from untreated rat testicular and liver microsomes: isolation and comparison.

    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

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-119-2-811

    authors: Hales DB,Betz G

    更新日期:1986-08-01 00:00:00

  • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone directly induces apoptotic cell death in the rat ovary: biochemical and in situ detection of deoxyribonucleic acid fragmentation in granulosa cells.

    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

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo.134.1.8275940

    authors: Billig H,Furuta I,Hsueh AJ

    更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00

  • Leukemia inhibitory factor antagonizes gonadotropin induced-testosterone synthesis in cultured porcine leydig cells: sites of action.

    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

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo.142.6.8177

    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

  • Xenoestrogens Ethinyl Estradiol and Zearalenone Cause Precocious Puberty in Female Rats via Central Kisspeptin Signaling.

    abstract::Xenoestrogens from synthetic or natural origin represent an increasing risk of disrupted endocrine functions including the physiological activity of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonad axis. Ethinyl estradiol (EE2) is a synthetic estrogen used in contraceptive pills, whereas zearalenone (ZEA) is a natural mycoestrogen fou...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/en.2015-1330

    authors: Kriszt R,Winkler Z,Polyák Á,Kuti D,Molnár C,Hrabovszky E,Kalló I,Szőke Z,Ferenczi S,Kovács KJ

    更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00

  • Activation of cell adhesion kinase beta by mechanical stretch in vascular smooth muscle cells.

    abstract::We have studied whether activation of cell adhesion kinase beta (CAKbeta) is involved in stretch-induced signaling pathway in cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells. Cyclic stretch (1 Hz) induced a rapid (within 1 min) phosphorylation of CAKbeta, whose effect was time and strength dependent. Both Ca(2+) and Na(+) i...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/en.2002-220939

    authors: Iwasaki H,Yoshimoto T,Sugiyama T,Hirata Y

    更新日期:2003-06-01 00:00:00

  • Failure of prolactin short loop feedback mechanism to operate in old as compared to young female rats.

    abstract::The short loop feedback effect of PRL was studied in young (4-5 months of age) and old (24-26 months of age) ovariectomized rats after a single iv injection of bovine PRL (bPRL, 500 micrograms/100 g BW) or BSA (500 micrograms/100 g BW). Blood samples were collected via intraatrial cannula every 20 min for assay of PRL...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-113-4-1452

    authors: Sarkar DK,Miki N,Meites J

    更新日期:1983-10-01 00:00:00

  • Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone concentrations in plasma, epididymal tissues, and seminal fluid of adult rats.

    abstract::The concentration of testosterone (T) and 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in plasma, seminal fluid, and epididymis of male Wistar rats have been determined by radioimmunoassay. The DHT/T ratio rose from 0.1 in blood to 1 in testicular fluid and 4 in epididymal fluid. This ratio is 2 in tissues of "caput" epididymis a...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-98-1-111

    authors: Pujol A,Bayard F,Louvet JP,Boulard C

    更新日期:1976-01-01 00:00:00

  • Immunocytochemical localization of cytochromes P450 17 alpha-hydroxylase and aromatase in embryonic cell layers of elongating porcine blastocysts.

    abstract::Localized expression of cytochromes P450 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P450c17) and aromatase (P450arom) was investigated in embryonic cell layers of elongating porcine blastocysts by immunocytochemistry. Blastocysts were flushed from the uterus on day 12 of pregnancy, fixed in paraformaldehyde, embedded in paraffin, sectione...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 更正并重新发布的文章,杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo.135.6.7988410

    authors: Conley AJ,Christenson LK,Ford SP,Christenson RK

    更新日期:1994-12-01 00:00:00

  • Effects of naloxone and an enkephalin analog on serum prolactin, cortisol, and gonadotropins in the chimpanzee.

    abstract::To assess a possible regulatory influence of opioids upon anterior pituitary function in the chimpanzee, we evaluated the effects of the specific opiate receptor antagonist naloxone and the agonistic enkephalin analog [D-Ala2, MePhe4,Met(o)-ol]enkephalin (FK 33-824; Sandoz) on serum levels of PRL, cortisol, FSH, and L...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-112-6-2168

    authors: Gosselin RE,Blankstein J,Dent DW,Hobson WC,Fuller GB,Reyes FI,Winter JS,Faiman C

    更新日期:1983-06-01 00:00:00

  • L-Triiodothyronine (T3) stimulates growth of cultured GC cells by action early in the G1 period: evidence for mediation by the nuclear T3 receptor.

    abstract::Incubation with T3 results in a dose-dependent increase in growth rate of cultured GC cells, a GH-producing rat pituitary tumor cell line. The T3-induced increase in growth rate results mainly from shortening of the G1 period from 79.4 +/- 4.3 (SD) h in cells grown in T3-depleted medium (-T3) to 10.0 +/- 0.9 h. This e...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-116-5-2062

    authors: DeFesi CR,Fels EC,Surks MI

    更新日期:1985-05-01 00:00:00

  • Effect of atrial natriuretic peptide on renin release in a superfusion system of kidney slices and dispersed juxtaglomerular cells.

    abstract::The effect of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) on renin release is controversial. Several reports state that ANP inhibits renin secretion, while others have shown no effect. We investigated the effect of synthetic rat ANP with 24 amino acids (atriopeptin III) on renin release in vitro in a dynamic superfusion system o...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-122-4-1437

    authors: Takagi M,Takagi M,Franco-Saenz R,Mulrow PJ

    更新日期:1988-04-01 00:00:00

  • 11 beta-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase alleviates glucocorticoid-mediated inhibition of steroidogenesis in rat Leydig cells.

    abstract::Leydig cells from mature rat testes contain high levels of 11 beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (11HSD), an enzyme that oxidatively inactivates glucocorticoids. We have proposed that the 11HSD of Leydig cells protects the testis from the effects of high levels of glucocorticoids, as may occur in stress and Cushing's d...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo.134.3.8119160

    authors: Monder C,Miroff Y,Marandici A,Hardy MP

    更新日期:1994-03-01 00:00:00

  • Species-specific processing of prodynorphin in the posterior pituitary of mammals.

    abstract::The steady state levels of the prodynorphin-derived opioid peptides, dynorphin A, dynorphin B, and alpha-neo-endorphin, have been extensively studied in the magnocellular/posterior pituitary system of the rat. To determine whether the rat system serves as a general model for prodynorphin processing in the mammalian po...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-120-1-230

    authors: Dores RM,Akil H

    更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00

  • Elevation of hypophysial portal concentrations of adrenocorticotropin secretagogues after fornix transection.

    abstract::Glucocorticoid feedback inhibition at the level of the brain is extremely complex, involving feedback at both hypothalamic and suprahypothalamic levels. The hippocampus has been implicated as a suprahypothalamic mediator of such feedback, based on numerous lesion, stimulation, and steroid implantation studies. These r...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/endo-125-6-2881

    authors: Sapolsky RM,Armanini MP,Sutton SW,Plotsky PM

    更新日期:1989-12-01 00:00:00

  • The calcium oscillator of GnRH-1 neurons is developmentally regulated.

    abstract::Oscillations in intracellular calcium levels have been described in GnRH-1 neurons in both prenatal and adult cells. However, differences have been reported in the mechanisms underlying these [Ca(2+)](i) oscillations, dependent on the model used. The goal of this study was to address whether these changes depend on th...

    journal_title:Endocrinology

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1210/en.2010-0118

    authors: Constantin S,Klenke U,Wray S

    更新日期:2010-08-01 00:00:00