alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone
The experimental generation of antibodies to alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone and adrenocorticotropic hormone
... 1 Abbreviations: MSH, melanocyte stimulating hormone; ACTH, adrenocorticotropic hormone; RSA, rabbit serum albumin; anti-ACTH, serum from rabbits that have received injections of rabbit [r] ...
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α-melanocyte stimulating hormone modulates the central acyl ghrelin-induced stimulation of feeding, gastrointestinal motility, and colonic secretion
... ICV injection of acyl ghrelin elicited food intake, accelerated gastric emptying, increased the geometric center and running percentage of small intestinal transit, decreased C[r] ...
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Alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone reduces endotoxin induced liver inflammation
... a-MSH decreases LPS-induced cytokine and chemokine mRNA accumulation. Since a-MSH prevents neutrophil and macrophage infiltration, we focused on factors that cause im- mune cell infiltration early in inflammation. ...
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The increase of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the plasma of chronic fatigue syndrome patients
... by the application of a dopamine agonist, which sup- pressed the secretion of a-MSH from the pituitary gland [9]. Furthermore, removal of the pituitary gland resulted in suppression of the stress-induced increase of the ...
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Melanoma cell migration is upregulated by tumour necrosis factor-alpha and suppressed by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone
... a-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone had an inhibitory effect on TNF-a- stimulated migration for HBL cells, completely blocking migration at 10 9 M ...
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In vivo multiplex quantitative analysis of 3 forms of alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone in pituitary of prolyl endopeptidase deficient mice
... Neuropeptide hormones involve multiple maturation steps, including cleavage by proteases, multiple post- translational modifications and deactivation or degrada- tion processes. Further, rapid perturbations of the neu- ...
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Anti-inflammatory and anti-invasive effects of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in human melanoma cells
... The aim of this study was to find out more about the role of a-MSH in influencing melanoma progression. We compared three genetically distinct human melanoma cell lines and examined to what extent a-MSH influenced cell ...
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Alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone protects against renal injury after ischemia in mice and rats
... -Melanocyte-stimulating hormone ( a -MSH) is a potent anti–inflammatory agent that inhibits neutrophil mi- gration and production of neutrophil chemokines and ...
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Multiple feedback regulatory loops upon rat hypothalamic corticotropin releasing hormone secretion Potential clinical implications
... corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neuron is regulated by CRH, by products of the proopiomelanocortin (POMC) gene, and/or by glucocorticoids, we used a rat hypothalamic organ culture system in which rat CRH ...
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α Melanocyte stimulating hormone (α MSH) modulates human chondrocyte activation induced by proinflammatory cytokines
... Background: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating-hormone ( α -MSH) has marked anti-inflammatory potential. Proinflammatory cytokines are critical mediators of the disturbed cartilage homeostasis in ...
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Overcoming Diminished Motivation
... Poster: Alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating Hormone Enhances Flank Marking Behavior in Male Syrian Hamsters by Activating Arginine Vasopressin AVP V1a Receptors.. Poster: Microinjection of argi[r] ...
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Evaluation of polydentate picolinic acid chelating ligands and an α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone derivative for targeted alpha therapy using ISOL-produced 225Ac
... Ac and 225 Ra, respectively, and three 10-day implantations) (Robertson et al. 2018). Increasing the beam current from 10 to 100 μ A would further increase yields 10x and replacing uranium carbide targets with thorium ...
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Preclinical Melanoma Imaging with 68Ga-Labeled α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Derivatives Using PET
... In vitro competitive binding assays were performed using B16F10 cells. 500,000 cells/well were seeded onto a 24 well poly-D-lysine coated plate (Corning) overnight. Growth media was removed, and reaction buffer ...
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Gonadotropin treatment augments postnatal oogenesis and primordial follicle assembly in adult mouse ovaries?
... Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) is a pleiotropic hor- mone produced by the pituitary and exerts its action on the ovary by inducing proliferation, differentiation and steroidogenesis in the granulosa ...
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Biochemical Study of the Effects of Insulin Resistance on Sex Hormones in Men and Women Type-2 Diabetic Patients / Meisan-Iraq
... This study was carried out on peoples who suffering from type II of diabetes mellitus in Meisan province. The study samples included (50) patients suffering from type II of diabetes (26 men and 24 women) aged between ...
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Serum Follicular Stimulating Hormone and Luteinizing Hormone as Measured by Radioimmunoassay Correlated with Sexual Development in Hypopituitary Subjects
... INTRODUCTION The intent of this investigation was to determine if serum follicular-stimulating hormone FSH1 and luteinizing hormone LH concentrations in subjects with hypopituitarism cor[r] ...
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Impact of Obesity on Serum Testosterone, Luteinizing Hormone and Follicular Stimulating Hormone levels in Sudanese Obese Male
... follicular stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone levels, and there is an inverse correlation between BMI and testosterone whereas LH and FSH levels are positively correlated with ...
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The effect of the intracervical administration of follicle stimulating hormone or luteinizing hormone on the levels of hyaluronan, COX2 and COX2 mRNA in the cervix of the nonpregnant ewe
... Scaramuzzi, The effect of the intra- cervical administration of follicle stimulating hormone or luteinizing hormone on the levels of hyaluronan, COX2 and COX2 mRNA in the cervix of the [r] ...
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Expression and localisation of FSHR, GHR and LHR in different tissues and reproductive organs of female yaks
... Luteinising hormone receptor (LHR) is an impor- tant reproductive hormone receptor in mammals. In recent years, more and more studies reported that LHR existed in extragonadal tissues such as gastric smooth ...
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Recombinant follitropin alfa/lutropin alfa in fertility treatment
... Follitropin alpha has a specific activity of 10,000 IU/mg which is similar to the urinary highly purified urofollitropin but is 100 times higher than that of other urinary derived FSH ...Follitropin alpha ...
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