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Sensory nerves and neuropeptides in uterine cervical ripening.

At the time of parturition (fetal delivery) the uterine cervix must "ripen," becoming soft, pliable, and dilated to accommodate the fetus' delivery. The fundamental processes underlying cervical ripening remain poorly understood. Knowledge that…

Distribution and origin of secretoneurin-immunoreactive nerves in the female rat uterus.

Secretoneurin is a 33-amino acid peptide derived from secretogranin II. Secretoneurin immunoreactivity has been localized in the peripheral nervous system where it exerts potent chemotactic activity for monocytes and may play a role in inflammation.…

Daily exercise reduces fat, protein and body mass in male but not female rats.

This study was designed to compare the estimated energy balance, linear growth (body and bone lengths) and body composition (all components including body mass, total body water, fat, protein and ash) response to daily spontaneous running (DSR) in…

Diabetes reduces growth and body composition more in male than in female rats.

Food restriction and/or starvation has a consistently greater and more permanent effect on physical growth in males than in females. Because diabetes may be viewed as being analogous to starvation, we tested the hypothesis that diabetes would reduce…

Testosterone causes direct relaxation of rat thoracic aorta.

Several recent studies have provided evidence that gonadal steroid hormones can exert acute (nongenomic) effects on both neural and vascular tissues. This study examines the acute effects of testosterone (T) on vascular reactivity of the rat thoracic…

Protein kinase and phosphatase activity regulate the form of synaptic plasticity expressed.

Long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) are calcium-dependent forms of synaptic plasticity observed in area CA1 of the hippocampus. Low-frequency tetani (1-5 Hz) activates protein phosphatases to induce LTD, whereas high-frequency…

Tags: 1996, Animals, Calcium/pharmacology, Coussens C M, Neuronal Plasticity/*physiology, Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases/*physiology, Protein Kinases/*physiology, Rats, Synapse (New York, N.Y.), Synaptic Transmission/drug effects/*physiology, Teyler T J

Long-term potentiation induces synaptic plasticity at nontetanized adjacent synapses.

The two forms of long-term potentiation (LTP) and one form of long-term depression (LTD) in hippocampal area CA1 are induced by different afferent tetani: LTD is induced by a 3- to 5-Hz tetanus, whereas higher frequencies are necessary for LTP…

Tags: 1996, Action Potentials/physiology, Animals, Coussens C M, Electric Stimulation/methods, Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials/physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), Long-Evans, Long-Term Potentiation/*physiology, Neuronal Plasticity/*physiology, Rats, Synapses/*physiology, Teyler T J

Genomic cloning, sequencing, and analysis of the hamster cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene (CYP7).

Cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase is the rate limiting enzyme in bile acid biosynthesis and plays an important role in cholesterol homeostasis. The Golden Syrian hamster has been used as an animal model for the study of atherosclerosis and cholesterol…

Effects of bile acids and steroid/thyroid hormones on the expression of cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase mRNA and the CYP7 gene in HepG2 cells.

The expression of cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase mRNA levels in confluent HepG2 cultures was reduced by tauro- or glyco-conjugates of deoxycholate and chenodeoxycholate, but not by cholate. Ursodeoxycholates, on the other hand, stimulated the mRNA…

The opposing effects of retinoic acid and phorbol esters converge to a common response element in the promoter of the rat cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene (CYP7A).

The activity of the rat CYP7A/luciferase reporter gene was increased five-fold by all-trans retinoic acid (atRA) or 9-cis retinoic acid (9cRA) in transient transfection assay in HepG2 cells. Cotransfection with retinoid X receptor (RXR) stimulated…

Transcriptional activation of the cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase gene (CYP7A) by nuclear hormone receptors.

The gene encoding cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase (CYP7A), the rate-limiting enzyme in bile acid synthesis, is transcriptionally regulated by bile acids and hormones. Previously, we have identified two bile acid response elements (BARE) in the…

Tags: *Receptors, *Transcriptional Activation, 1998, Animals, Base Sequence, Bile Acids and Salts/biosynthesis, Chiang J Y, Cholesterol 7-alpha-Hydroxylase/*genetics, COUP Transcription Factor II, COUP Transcription Factors, Crestani M, Cultured, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/*physiology, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, DNA-Binding Proteins/metabolism, DNA/metabolism, Galli G, Genes, Genetic, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4, Hormones/*physiology, Journal of lipid research, Luciferases/genetics, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutagenesis, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nucleic Acid, Oligonucleotide Probes/metabolism, Phosphoproteins/metabolism, Promoter Regions, Rats, Receptors, Repetitive Sequences, Reporter, Retinoic Acid/metabolism, Retinoid X Receptors, Sadeghpour A, Site-Directed, Steroid, Stroup D, Transcription Factors/metabolism, Tumor Cells

Hormonal regulation of the cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene (CYP7).

The transcriptional regulation of the rat cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylase gene (CYP7) by hormones and signal transduction pathways was studied by transient transfection assay of the promoter activity. HepG2 cells were transfected with deletion…

Failure of axonal transport induces a spatially coincident increase in astrocyte BDNF prior to synapse loss in a central target.

Failure of anterograde transport to distal targets in the brain is a common feature of neurodegenerative diseases. We have demonstrated in rodent models of glaucoma, the most common optic neuropathy, early loss of anterograde transport along the…

Anterograde Tract Tracing for Assaying Axonopathy and Transport Deficits in Glaucoma.

Whether to stage degeneration or investigate early pathology in glaucoma, examination of axonal structure and function is essential. There are a wide variety of methods available to investigators using animal models of glaucoma, with varying…

The antinociceptive effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in the rat.

The antinociceptive effects of MDMA and morphine were examined in rats using the tail-flick and hot-plate analgesiometric tests. MDMA, in the dose range of 1.5-6.0 mg/kg IP, produced a dose-dependent elevation in hot-plate latency, but did not…

Spinal beta-endorphin analgesia involves an interaction with local monoaminergic systems.

beta-Endorphin administered intrathecally (i.t.) in rats produced a dose-dependent elevation in tail-flick latency. Naltrexone administered i.t. as a pretreatment reversed the spinal antinociceptive action of beta-endorphin, suggesting that the…

Effects of aging on spinal opioid-induced antinociception.

Initial experiments were conducted to determine whether or not the aging process alters the ability of young, mature, or aged male Fischer 344 rats (5- to 6-, 15- to 16-, and 25- to 26-months-old, respectively) to respond to thermal nociceptive…

Age-related changes in the spinal antinociceptive effects of DAGO, DPDPE and beta-endorphin in the rat.

These studies were designed to investigate how the aging process alters the spinal antinociceptive efficacy of mu (mu), delta (delta) and epsilon (epsilon) opioid receptor agonists administered intrathecally (i.t.) in rats. Various doses of the mu…

The noradrenergic component contributing to spinal fentanyl-induced antinociception is supraspinally mediated.

1. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fitted with intrathecal (i.t.) and intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) catheters. Fentanyl was injected either i.t. or i.c.v., and the antinociceptive efficacy of fentanyl was evaluated using the tail-flick…

Analgesic effects of serotonin and receptor-selective serotonin agonists in the rat spinal cord.

1. Serotonin (5-HT) and selective 5-HT receptor agonists were administered intrathecally (i.t.) in rats, and the antinociceptive efficacy of these agents was assessed on the tail-flick and hot plate tests. 2. The 5-HT receptor agonists examined in…

Serotonin contributes to the spinal antinociceptive effects of morphine.

This study was designed to determine if morphine administered intrathecally (IT) interacts with serotonergic or noradrenergic nerve terminals in the spinal cord to produce analgesia on the spinally mediated tail-flick test. Male Sprague-Dawley rats…

Effect of aging on the substance P receptor, NK-1, in the spinal cord of rats with peripheral nerve injury.

Substance P (SP) levels in the spinal cords of very old rats are less than the levels in younger rats (Bergman et al., 1996). After injury to a peripheral nerve in young rats, immunoreactivity (ir) to the SP receptor, NK-1 (neurokinin-1), increases…

Hyperammonaemia-induced skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction results in cataplerosis and oxidative stress.

KEY POINTS: Hyperammonaemia occurs in hepatic, cardiac and pulmonary diseases with increased muscle concentration of ammonia. We found that ammonia results in reduced skeletal muscle mitochondrial respiration, electron transport chain complex I…

Tags: *ammonia, *ATP, *cellular respiration, *cirrhosis, *Mitochondria, *Oxidative Stress, *portacaval anastamosis, *Reactive oxygen species, *skeletal muscle, 2016, Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism, Aged, Allawy Allawy, Animals, Cell Line, Cell Respiration, Creatine Kinase/metabolism, Dasarathy Srinivasan, Davuluri Gangarao, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Female, Flask Chris A, Hoppel Charles, Humans, Hyperammonemia/*metabolism, Kasumov Takhar, Kumar Avinash, Liver Cirrhosis/metabolism, Male, Middle Aged, Mitochondria, Muscle, Muscle/*metabolism, Myosin Heavy Chains/metabolism, NAD/metabolism, NEOMED College of Pharmacy, Rats, Reactive Oxygen Species/metabolism, Rennison Julie H, Sandlers Yana, Singh Dharmvir, Skeletal/*metabolism, Sprague-Dawley, Thapaliya Samjhana, The Journal of physiology, Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances/metabolism, Van Wagoner David R

Mesenchymal stem cells and their secretome partially restore nerve and urethral function in a dual muscle and nerve injury stress urinary incontinence model.

Childbirth injures muscles and nerves responsible for urinary continence. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) or their secretome given systemically could provide therapeutic benefit for this complex multisite injury. We investigated whether MSCs or their…

Onset of exercise increases lumbar sympathetic nerve activity in rats.

We hypothesized that lumbar sympathetic nerve activity (LSNA) increases at the onset of whole-body dynamic exercise in the rat. To test this hypothesis, we recorded LSNA, heart rate (HR), and arterial pressure (AP) at rest and during a graded…

Tags: 1996, Animal/*physiology, Animals, Blood Pressure, Chen C Y, Collins H L, DiCarlo S E, Heart Rate, Lumbar Vertebrae/*innervation, Medicine and science in sports and exercise, Physical Conditioning, Rats, Sympathetic Nervous System/*physiology

Onset of exercise increases lumbar sympathetic nerve activity in rats.

Tags: 1996, Animal Studies, Chen C, Collins H L, Data Analysis Software, DiCarlo S E, Exercise, Fisher's Exact Test, Funding Source, Heart Rate, Lumbar Vertebrae, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, One-Way Analysis of Variance, Paired T-Tests, Rats, Spinal Nerves, Sympathetic Nervous System – Physiology, Two-Tailed Test

Vagal afferents reflexly inhibit exercise in conscious rats.

Activation of vagal afferents reflexly inhibited locomotion induced by stimulation of the mesencephalic locomotor region in decerebrate cats. However, this reflex has not been tested in intact mammals. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to test…

Local modulation of adrenergic responses in the hindlimb vasculature of the intact conscious rat.

1. Local modulation of adrenergic responses was examined in the hindlimb vasculature of chronically instrumented intact conscious rats. Sprague-Dawley rats (n = 22) were instrumented with a Doppler flow probe around the right common iliac artery, a…

Tags: 1995, Adrenergic Agonists/*pharmacology, Animals, Arginine/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology, Chen C Y, Collins H L, Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors/pharmacology, DiCarlo S E, Female, Hemodynamics/*drug effects/physiology, Hindlimb/*blood supply/drug effects/metabolism, Indomethacin/pharmacology, Male, NG-Nitroarginine Methyl Ester, Nitric Oxide Synthase/antagonists & inhibitors, Patil R D, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, The Journal of physiology

Spermine depresses NMDA, K/AMPA and GABAA-mediated synaptic transmission in the rat hippocampal slice preparation.

The effects of spermine, an endogenous polyamine, were examined in area CA1 of the rat hippocampal slice preparation. Spermine, at low millimolar concentrations, rapidly and potently depressed NMDA and K/AMPA-mediated population EPSPs, and…

The development of GABAB-mediated activity in the rat dentate gyrus.

We examined the effects of GABAB receptor activation in the dentate gyrus of hippocampal slices prepared from 6-8-day-old rat pup. Baclofen (0.25-1.0 microM), a GABAB agonist, rapidly and potently disinhibited the developing dentate, similar to its…

Tags: 1994, Animals, Baclofen/analogs & derivatives/pharmacology, Brain research. Developmental brain research, DiScenna P G, Electric Stimulation, Evoked Potentials/drug effects, GABA-A Receptor Antagonists, GABA-A/drug effects/physiology, GABA-B Receptor Antagonists, GABA-B/*metabolism, Hippocampus/*growth & development/*metabolism, In Vitro Techniques, Nowicky A V, Organophosphorus Compounds/pharmacology, Rats, Receptors, Teyler T J

Development of inhibitory and excitatory synaptic transmission in the rat dentate gyrus.

We studied the ontogeny of inhibitory and excitatory processes in the rat dentate gyrus by examining paired-pulse plasticity in the hippocampal slice preparation. The mature dentate gyrus produces characteristic paired-pulse responses across a wide…

Tags: 1994, Action Potentials, Animals, DiScenna P G, Hippocampus, Hippocampus/*growth & development, Neuronal Plasticity/*physiology, Rats, Reaction Time, Synapses/physiology, Teyler T J

Inhibition of striatal dopamine transporter activity by 17beta-estradiol.

Striatal synaptosomes from ovariectomized rats were prepared to examine the effect of 17beta-estradiol on [3H]dopamine uptake. Estradiol inhibited [3H]dopamine uptake in a dose-dependent manner, with an IC50 of 7.2 microM. Use of identical…

Tags: *Membrane Glycoproteins, *Membrane Transport Proteins, *Nerve Tissue Proteins, 1998, Animals, Boja J W, Carrier Proteins/*antagonists & inhibitors, Disshon K A, Dluzen D E, Dopamine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteins, Dopamine/metabolism, Estradiol/*pharmacology, European journal of pharmacology, Female, Neostriatum/*drug effects/metabolism, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Synaptosomes/*drug effects/metabolism

Estrogen reduces acute striatal dopamine responses in vivo to the neurotoxin MPP+ in female, but not male rats.

The effects of in vivo estrogen treatment upon MPP(+)-induced dopamine (DA) release were determined using in vivo microdialysis in female and male rats. Ovariectomized female rats were implanted or not with an estrogen pellet (0.1 mg, 17beta…

Estrogen as a neuromodulator of MPTP-induced neurotoxicity: effects upon striatal dopamine release.

The effects of estrogen upon MPTP-induced neurotoxicity were examined using in vitro superfusion. In Experiment 1, striatal tissue from ovariectomized rats was infused with MPP+ (10 microM), a combination of MPP+ and 17beta-estradiol (300 nM), the…

Tags: *MPTP Poisoning, 1-Methyl-4-phenylpyridinium/toxicity, 1997, Animals, Brain research, Disshon K A, Dluzen D E, Dopamine Agents/*toxicity, Dopamine/*metabolism, Estradiol/pharmacology, Estrogens/*physiology, Female, Neostriatum/drug effects/*metabolism, Neurotransmitter Agents/*physiology, Ovariectomy, Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Use of in vitro superfusion to assess the dynamics of striatal dopamine clearance: influence of estrogen.

To determine the feasibility of assessing dopamine uptake using in vitro superfusion, striatal tissue from ovariectomized female rats was infused with dopamine (1 microM), nomifensine (1 mM), or a combination of dopamine and nomifensine. Treatment…

Tags: 1999, Animals, Brain research, Corpus Striatum/drug effects/*physiology, Disshon K A, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/*metabolism/pharmacology, Estradiol/*pharmacology, Female, Kinetics, Nomifensine/*pharmacology, Ovariectomy, Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Estrogen decreases corpus striatal neurotoxicity in response to

Ovariectomized rats treated or not with an estradiol pellet were subjected to an unilateral intrastriatal infusion of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA). Various parameters of nigrostriatal dopaminergic function as derived from measurements of dopamine and…

Tags: 1997, 3, 4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid/metabolism, Animal, Animals, Brain research, Corpus Striatum/*drug effects, Disease Models, Dluzen D, Dopamine/metabolism, Estradiol/*pharmacology, Female, Neurotoxins/*toxicity, Oxidopamine/*toxicity, Parkinson Disease/*physiopathology, Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Age-related changes in monoamines within the olfactory bulbs of the Fischer 344 male rat.

In this report the olfactory bulbs (OB) were removed from 5-6 month, 15-16 month and 25-26 month male Fischer 344 rats and assayed for concentrations of monoamines and their metabolites using HPLC-EC. Concentrations of norepinephrine were…

Tags: 1996, 3, 4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid/metabolism, Aging/*metabolism, Animals, Biogenic Monoamines/*metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/metabolism, Inbred F344, Male, Mechanisms of ageing and development, Olfactory Bulb/*metabolism, Rats, Serotonin/metabolism

The effects of nicotine on dopamine and DOPAC output from rat striatal tissue.

The effects of varying doses of nicotine infusion upon spontaneous (basal) and subsequent potassium chloride-stimulated dopamine and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) output from superfused corpus striatal tissue fragments of male rats were…

Tags: 1998, 3, 4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid/*metabolism, Amphetamine/pharmacology, Anderson L I, Animals, Central Nervous System Stimulants/pharmacology, Corpus Striatum/*drug effects/*metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/*metabolism, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, European journal of pharmacology, Ganglionic Stimulants/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Male, Nicotine/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Potassium Chloride/pharmacology, Rats, Sprague-Dawley

Estrogen differentially modulates nicotine-evoked dopamine release from the striatum of male and female rats.

In the present experiment we examined the effects of an in vitro infusion of nicotine (10 microM) upon dopamine release from superfused striatum of castrated male and female rats treated or not treated with estrogen. Estrogen exerted bidirectional…

Tags: 1997, Anderson L I, Animals, Corpus Striatum/drug effects/*metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/*metabolism, Estradiol/*pharmacology, Female, In Vitro Techniques, Kinetics, Male, Neuroscience letters, Nicotine/*pharmacology, Orchiectomy, Ovariectomy, Rats, Sex Characteristics, Sprague-Dawley

L-dopa infusion mode differentially affects corpus striatal dopamine efflux in the presence of reserpine.

In the present experiment we tested the effects of L-DOPA upon dopamine (DA) efflux in vitro from superfused corpus striatal tissue fragments in medium containing reserpine. The purposes of this experiment were first, to evaluate the effects of…

Tags: 1992, Amphetamine/pharmacology, Animals, Chromatography, Corpus Striatum/*drug effects/metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/*metabolism, High Pressure Liquid, Infusions, Intravenous, Journal of neural transmission. General section, Kratko F T Jr, Levodopa/*pharmacology, Male, Potassium/pharmacology, Rats, Reserpine/*pharmacology, Sprague-Dawley

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