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Methods: Five beagle bitches were administered MPA subcutaneously at 10 mg/kg, every four weeks. A combination of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH), gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH), and thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) was administered before and 2, 5, 8, and 11 months after the initial MPA treatment. Blood samples for determination of plas...

PURPOSE To assess the feasibility of somatostatin receptor scintigraphy for patients with Cushing's syndrome caused by tumors secreting ectopic corticotropin or corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH). PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten patients with Cushing's syndrome, nine with ectopic corticotropin-secreting tumors and one with a CRH-secreting tumor, were consecutively studied. For comparison purposes...

RANKL: Receptor activator of nuclear factorkappa B ligand; PTHrP: Parathyroid Hormone Related Peptide; ACTH: Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; POMC: Pro-Opiomelanocortin; PNES: Paraneoplastic Endocrine Syndrome; OPG: Osteoprotegrin; CS: Cushing’s Syndrome; CLIP: Corticotrophin-Like Intermediate Lobe Peptide; MSH: α-Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone; CLIP: Corticotrophin-Like Intermediate Lobe Peptide; ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Corticotropin releasing factor is an endogenous neuropeptide released by the hypothalamus that activates the pituitary-adrenocortical system in response to stressful stimuli. It has been demonstrated that corticotropin releasing factor increases the excitability of hippocampal neurons in both in vitro and in vivo studies, which may contribute to neurological injury during...

Abstract Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus are canonical controllers endocrine response to stress. Here we propose a new role for these cells as gate state transitions that allow organism engage stress-related behaviors. Specifically, review evidence indicating activation at critical times allows organisms move is permissive motor actio...

Fallopian tube (FT) and endometrial urocortin 1 (Ucn1) and corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH)-receptor (CRH-R1/CRH-R2) expression were examined using quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and immunohistochemistry in nonpregnant and pregnant women (intrauterine, IUP; ectopic pregnancy, EP). Tubal Ucn1 messenger RNA (mRNA) expression was higher in luteal compared to follicu...