Publication Date:
1982-07-02
Description:
Administration of synthetic ovine corticotropin-releasing factor led to rapid, parallel increases in adrenocorticotropin and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone concentrations in rat plasma. Prior treatment with dexamethasone almost completely blocked the adrenocorticotropin response but not the increase in melanocyte-stimulating hormone. These data demonstrate that corticotropin-releasing factor is a potent stimulator not only of adrenocorticotropin secretion from the corticotrophs of the anterior pituitary gland but also of peptide secretion from the intermediate lobe. Such data suggest that melanocyte-stimulating hormone and beta-endorphin play a role in the physiological response to stress.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Proulx-Ferland, L -- Labrie, F -- Dumont, D -- Cote, J -- Coy, D H -- Sveiraf, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Jul 2;217(4554):62-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6283632" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/blood
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Animals
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Castration
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Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/*pharmacology
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Dexamethasone/pharmacology
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Female
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Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormones/blood/*secretion
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Pituitary Gland/drug effects/*secretion
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Pituitary Gland, Anterior/secretion
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Rats
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Rats, Inbred Strains
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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