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  • 1
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 771 (1995), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1749-6632
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
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  • 2
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 689 (1993), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1749-6632
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1365-2826
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The effects of centrally injected orexin-A on plasma adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and corticosterone levels and corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) mRNA in the parvocellular cells of the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the rat were investigated. In animals implanted previously with a lateral brain ventricle and femoral artery cannula, a single i.c.v. injection of orexin-A (10 µg/rat) resulted in a rapid, significant increase in plasma ACTH and corticosterone concentrations. Plasma ACTH reached a peak (12.5-fold greater than basal levels) at 30 min, which was maintained over 120 min before declining towards control levels by 240 min. Plasma corticosterone concentrations reached a peak (6.7-fold greater than basal levels) at 30 min. Orexin-A at a higher dose (30 µg/rat) also produced a rapid increase in plasma ACTH and corticosterone concentrations. The area under the curve for plasma levels of ACTH was similar for both doses of orexin-A. In a second study, orexin-A (10 µg/rat) was injected i.c.v. and brains and pituitaries were rapidly removed after 240 min. In situ hybridization histochemistry revealed that CRF and AVP mRNA levels were significantly increased in the parvocellular cells of the PVN. Pro-opiomelanocortin mRNA levels in the pituitary gland were not significantly elevated in response to orexin-A. These results suggest that orexin-A is able to act centrally to activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis involving stimulation of both CRF and AVP expression.
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  • 4
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science, Ltd
    Journal of neuroendocrinology 15 (2003), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2826
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and arginine vasopressin (AVP) are expressed in cells of the immune system where they exert immunomodulatory roles, but these neuropeptides are poorly characterized in human immune tissues. The aim of this study was to determine concentrations and distribution of CRH and AVP in nonactivated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). PBMC from normal human subjects were separated into enriched subpopulations of T and B cells and monocytes/macrophages by a magnetic bead/monoclonal antibody technique. CRH and AVP were measured in cell extracts by radioimmunoassay (RIA). CRH-immunoreactivity (ir) ranged 0.24–0.8 fmol/million cells (n = 6 subjects) in T cell extracts, 0.4–2.7 fmol/million cells (n = 4) in B cells and 0.63–2.16 fmol/million cells (n = 4) in macrophages. AVP-ir ranged 0.2–0.95 fmol/million cells in T cell extracts, 〈0.1–0.8 fmol/million cells in B cells and 0.14–3.19 fmol/million cells in macrophages. Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of T and B cell extracts revealed a peak of CRH-ir which coeluted with synthetic CRH-41; this peak was not present in macrophages. A second peak of CRH-ir which eluted in a more hydrophobic position was observed in extracts of T and B cells and macrophages. This unidentified form of CRH-ir is the predominant form of CRH-ir in nonactivated human PBMC. This is the first study to demonstrate that CRH-ir and AVP-ir are colocalized within human T cells, B cells and monocytes/macrophages. We have confirmed observations of a variant form of CRH-ir in human PBMC and show that this is the predominant form in macrophages and B cells whereas CRH-ir, which coelutes with CRH(1–41) on HPLC, is present in significant amounts only in T cells. These data also confirm that CRH-ir in human PBMC is not urocortin because the antiserum used in the CRH RIA does not bind to urocortin.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1365-2826
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Enhanced corticosterone release by female compared to male rats under basal and stress conditions is well documented. The demonstration that gonadectomy enhances stress-induced corticosterone secretion in male rats, but reduces such levels in female rats, suggests a causal association between gonadal steroids and corticosterone release. The present study examined the corticosterone profile of sham gonadectomized and gonadectomized female and male rats under basal and stress conditions. An automated sampling system collected blood from each freely moving, unanaesthetized rat every 10 min (i) over a 24-h period; (ii) following noise stress; and (iii) following an immune-mediated stress (lipopolysaccharide, LPS). Plasma was analysed for corticosterone content using radioimmunoassay. Castration resulted in a significant increase in basal corticosterone release compared to the sham-castrated male rats. Pulsar analysis revealed a significant two-fold increase in the number of corticosterone pulses over 24 h. Corticosterone increases in response to noise stress and to LPS injection were enhanced following castration. Conversely, ovariectomy resulted in a two-fold reduction in the number of corticosterone pulses as well as the stress response compared to sham-ovariectomized female rats. Arginine vasopressin (AVP), corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) and glucocorticoid receptor mRNAs in the paraventricular nucleus and pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) mRNA in the anterior pituitary were analysed post-LPS administration by in situ hybridization. Significantly higher values were found for AVP, CRH and POMC mRNAs examined for sham females and castrated males compared to sham males and ovariectomized females. This study confirms previous reports concerning the influence of gonadal factors in regulating HPA axis activity and stress responsiveness. The present results extend these observations to the regulation of the dynamic pattern of corticosterone release under basal conditions and suggests that this alteration in pulsatility is important for the differences in stress responsiveness when comparing males and females.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 689 (1993), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1749-6632
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General
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  • 7
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Physiologia plantarum 61 (1984), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1399-3054
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: ‘Grasslands Huia’ white clover (Trifolium repens L.), ‘Grasslands Maku’ lotus (Lotus pedunculatus Cav.) and suckling clover (T. dubium Sibth) were grown in a controlled environment at various levels of P supply. Dry weights and the concentration of inorganic-, lipid-, ester- and residual-P in trifoliate leaves were measured. Lotus grew better than white or suckling clover at low P. White clover and lotus responded steeply to increased P and had similar shoot dry weights at high P. Suckling clover had lower shoot weights than the other species at all P levels. The superior growth of lotus at low levels of p was probably due to better root growth and P uptake. Lotus had higher shoot P concentrations at low levels of P but lower concentrations than the others at high levels. White clover and suckling clover had similar shoot P concentrations at all levels of supply. In white and suckling clover total leaf P concentration rose with P supply. Of the P fractions, inorganic-and residual-P showed the largest rises in concentration. The increases in lipid- and ester-P were smaller. Increases in lotus leaf P were small, primarily because of the relatively small rises in inorganic- and residual-P. White clover is a vigorous species but requires high levels of P for best growth. Suckling clover has a relatively small response to improvements in P availability. The behaviour of the various P fractions is similar to that in white clover. Lotus grows well at low P but also shows rapid growth at high P supply. Whether efficiency is defined as the ability to extract P from the environment or to maintain low internal P concentration, lotus makes efficient use of P over the whole range of P supply.
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