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Query: UNIPROT:P01189 (beta-endorphin)
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Androsterone sulfate (5alpha-androstan-3alpha-ol-17-one, 3-sodium sulfate) administered to freely moving rats via cerebroventricular cannulae induced analgesia, wet-dog shakes, body jerks, rigidity, Straub tail, hypermotility, excessive grooming, hyperreactivity to stimuli, aggression, escape behavior, EEG spiking, and behavioral and EEG seizures. These responses resemble those produced by certain opiate drugs and by beta-endorphin, an endogenous peptide; they appear during the 5-min infusion period, persist in some cases for several hours, and are diminished by pretreatment with the narcotic antagonist naloxone. These findings indicate that steroid hormones can act upon at least some of the same central pathways influenced by recognized opiate compounds.
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PMID:Opiate-like naloxone-reversible effects of androsterone sulfate in rats. 74 33

Ten patients were studied before and after autologous adrenal medullary transplantation to the central nervous system for Parkinson's disease to determine if the presence of new catecholamine-producing tissue near the hypothalamus would alter hypothalamic or pituitary function, mineralocorticoid levels, or catecholamine production. No clinically apparent ill effects occurred. Changes in endocrine function were largely short-term and transient: at 7-10 days after surgery, urinary catecholamine levels were significantly increased, PRL levels were significantly elevated despite markedly increased serum dopamine levels, and gonadal steroid levels (estradiol and testosterone) were significantly lower despite unchanged basal and stimulated levels of gonadotropins. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate was significantly reduced at 7-10 days after surgery and remained low at 3-6 months. Other changes at 3-6 months after surgery included increased stimulated corticotropin levels and reduced serum aldosterone response to upright posture. The changes at 7-10 days were probably due to stress or unilateral adrenalectomy or both; the changes at 3-6 months were likely due to unilateral adrenalectomy. We conclude that unilateral adrenalectomy and autologous adrenal medullary transplantation to the central nervous system does not produce clinically important changes in endocrine function; however, possible adverse consequences of long-term reduction of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate levels cannot be excluded.
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PMID:Changes in endocrine function after adrenal medullary transplantation to the central nervous system. 239 80

This study examined the effects of human chorionic gonadotropin, adrenocorticotropin, human luteinizing hormone, and mouse epidermal growth factor on growth (thymidine incorporation) and steroidogenesis (dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate production) of human fetal zone adrenal cells in monolayer culture. Two preparations of human chorionic gonadotropin extracted from pregnancy urine were used, one highly purified (National Institutes of Health, CR-121) and one less pure (Sigma). Thymidine incorporation was increased twofold to tenfold in cultures exposed to the Sigma human chorionic gonadotropin preparation or to mouse epidermal growth factor as compared to control. Pure National Institutes of Health human chorionic gonadotropin and luteinizing hormone had no effect on growth. When adrenocorticotropin was added alone or in combination with Sigma human chorionic gonadotropin or mouse epidermal growth factor, growth was decreased. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate production was stimulated by adrenocorticotropin but not by human luteinizing hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin, or mouse epidermal growth factor. These results suggest that human pregnancy urine contains a growth factor which remains to be identified but that pure human chorionic gonadotropin has no mitogenic or steroidogenic effects on the cultured fetal zone cells of the human fetal adrenal gland.
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PMID:The effects of human chorionic gonadotropin on growth and steroidogenesis of the human fetal adrenal gland in vitro. 303 Jan 10

Current evidence indicates that the neuroendocrine system is the highest regulator of immune/inflammatory reactions. We hypothesized that immune alterations, which were related to the level of injury, found in a cohort of spinal cord-injured subjects may be influenced by altered hormonal patterns postinjury. Therefore, we investigated aspects of both pituitary and adrenal function in the same cohort of spinal cord-injured subjects. We found significant elevations in both cortisol and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate in chronic spinal cord-injured survivors compared with their able-bodied age- and gender-matched controls. Levels of dehydroepiandrosterone, adrenocorticotropin, and prolactin were not different in spinal cord-injured subjects overall compared with their controls. Both dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and dehydroepiandrosterone were higher in tetraplegics compared with their controls, but we found no such differences in paraplegics compared with their controls. When the two groups of spinal cord-injured subjects were compared with each other, we also found differences between these two subject groups in dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and dehydroepiandrosterone (higher in the tetraplegics compared with paraplegics). We found no differences between either group of spinal cord-injured subjects and their controls for adrenocorticotropin, prolactin, or cortisol. These data suggest that some hormonal differences between subjects and their controls may be further related to the level of injury (specifically dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone). Finally, we investigated correlations within subjects for the above hormones. Dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and prolactin were highly correlated (the higher the dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, the higher the prolactin) but only in the tetraplegic subjects.
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PMID:Adrenal and pituitary hormone patterns after spinal cord injury. 1041 43