Urocortin: a mechanism for the sustained activation of the HPA axis in the late-gestation ovine fetus?

Urocortin Expression in Rat Brain: Evidence Against a Pervasive Relationship of Urocortin-Containing Projections With Targets Bearing Type 2 CRF Receptors

1999 • 354 citations

Maturation and Activation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary Adrenal Function in Fetal Sheep*

1989 • 268 citations

Distribution of urocortin-like immunoreactivity in the central nervous system of the rat

1998 • 256 citations

Cloning and characterization of human urocortin [published erratum appears in Endocrinoogy 1996 Sep;137(9):3896]

1996 • 183 citations

Differential distribution of urocortin- and corticotropin-releasing factor-like immunoreactivities in the rat brain

1999 • 149 citations

Changes in pituitary responses to synthetic ovine corticotrophin releasing factor in fetal sheep

1985 • 120 citations

Intercellular Communication in the Anterior Pituitary*

2000 • 108 citations

Localization of urocortin messenger RNA in rat brain and pituitary.

1996 • 90 citations

Effect of urocortin on ACTH secretion from rat anterior pituitary in vitro and in vivo: comparison with corticotropin-releasing hormone

1998 • 86 citations

Urocortin Expression in Human Pituitary Gland and Pituitary Adenoma

1997 • 83 citations

Distribution and concentration of urocortin, and effect of adrenalectomy on its content in rat hypothalamus

1998 • 80 citations

Urocortin expression in the human central nervous system

1999 • 79 citations

Regulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in fetal sheep

1996 • 76 citations

Changes in Pro‐Opiomelanocortin and Pre‐proenkephalin mRNA Levels in the Ovine Brain during Pregnancy, Parturition and Lactation and in Response to Oestrogen and Progesterone

1993 • 73 citations

Normal and Growth Hormone (GH)-Secreting Adenomatous Human Pituitaries Release Somatostatin and GH-Releasing Hormone

1989 • 64 citations

Developmental changes in the distribution of pro-opiomelanocortin and prolactin mRNA in the pituitary of the ovine fetus and lamb

1994 • 60 citations

Urocortin Is Not a Significant Regulator of Intermittent Electrofootshock-Induced Adrenocorticotropin Secretion in the Intact Male Rat**This work was supported by NIH Grant DK-26741 and The Foundation for Research.

1999 • 59 citations

A Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Type I Receptor Antagonist Delays Parturition in Sheep

1998 • 57 citations

Localization and Characterization of Urocortin during Human Pregnancy

2000 • 47 citations

Labelling of CRF1 and CRF2 receptors using the novel radioligand, [3H]-urocortin

1997 • 43 citations

Paracrine communication in the anterior pituitary as studied in reaggregate cell cultures

1997 • 42 citations

Ovine genomic urocortin: cloning, pharmacologic characterization, and distribution of central mRNA

1999 • 40 citations

Corticotropin-releasing hormone is produced by rat corticotropes and modulates ACTH secretion in a paracrine/autocrine fashion.

1998 • 34 citations

Regulation of ovine fetal pituitary function by corticotrophin-releasing hormone, arginine vasopressin and cortisol in vitro

1994 • 34 citations

Effect of Urocortin and Its Interaction with Adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) Secretagogues on ACTH Release

1998 • 31 citations

Effect of Late Hypothalamo‐Pituitary Disconnection on the Development of the HPA Axis in the Ovine Fetus and the Initiation of Parturition

1994 • 28 citations

Developmental and glucocorticoid regulation of pituitary 11 β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 gene expression in the ovine fetus and lamb

1995 • 28 citations

Neuroendocrine regulation of pituitary–adrenal function during fetal life

1996 • 27 citations

Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Type I Receptor Messenger Ribonucleic Acid and Protein Levels in the Ovine Fetal Pituitary: Ontogeny and Effect of Chronic Cortisol Administration¹

2000 • 20 citations

Divergent changes in plasma ACTH and pituitary POMC mRNA after cortisol administration to late-gestation ovine fetus

1998 • 17 citations

Hypothalamo-Pituitary Disconnection of the Late-Gestation Ovine Fetus Results in Profound Changes in Cortisol Secretion that Are Not Reflected in Commensurate Changes in Adrenocorticotropin Secretion*

1998 • 15 citations

Ovine anterior pituitary proopiomelanocortin gene expression is not increased by ACTH secretagogues in vitro.

1993 • 15 citations

The effect of estradiol on output of adrenocorticotropin and prolactin by fetal sheep anterior pituitary cells

1998 • 10 citations

The effect of estradiol on output of adrenocorticotropin and prolactin by fetal sheep anterior pituitary cells

1998 • 7 citations

Cited By (0)

Loading...