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Query: UNIPROT:P01189 (beta-endorphin)
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These experiments examined the interaction of beta-endorphin and GABAergic drugs, administered post-training, in influencing retention of an inhibitory avoidance response. Male CD1 mice were trained in an inhibitory avoidance task, given immediate post-training ip injections and tested 24 h later for retention. beta-Endorphin (0.5, 1.0, or 2.0 micrograms/kg) and muscimol (0.5, 1.0, or 2.0 mg/kg) produced dose-dependent impairment of retention; picrotoxin (0.25, 0.5, or 1.0 mg/kg) and bicuculline (0.1, 0.25, or 0.5 mg/kg) produced dose-dependent enhancement of retention. A low subeffective dose of muscimol (0.5 mg/kg) potentiated the retention-impairing effect of beta-endorphin (1.0 microgram/kg). In addition, concurrent administration of low, subeffective doses of bicuculline (0.1 mg/kg) or picrotoxin (0.25 mg/kg) attenuated the retention-impairing effects of beta-endorphin (1.0 microgram/kg). The findings are consistent with previous evidence indicating that beta-endorphin influences memory through an interaction with GABAergic mechanisms.
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PMID:Interaction of beta-endorphin and GABAergic drugs in the regulation of memory storage. 811 37

The immune cells of rat and man synthesize, store and secrete hormones, characteristic to the endocrine glands. In the present experiments female and male CD1 mice were treated with 10 IU/kg insulin sc. (the controls with normal saline) and after 30 min peritoneal fluid was gained. The cells of the peritoneal fluid (lymphocytes and the monocyte-granulocyte group) were studied by immunocytochemical flow-cytometry to adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), triiodothyronine (T3), histamine and serotonin content. In the female mice each hormone level was significantly lower in the insulin-treated animals, except histamine in the monocyte-granulocyte group. In the insulin-treated male animals, the hormone levels were similar to the control. The results 1) support the previously hypothesized hormonal network in the immune system, 2) justify that the insulin effect is not species dependent and 3) call attention to the sex, species and organ differences in the response.
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PMID:In vivo effect of insulin on the hormone production of immune cells in mice - gender differences. 2549 70

There is evidence that endogenous cannabinoids (eCBs) play a role in the control of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, although they appear to have dual, stimulatory and inhibitory, effects. Recent data in rats suggest that eCBs, acting through CB1 receptors (CB1R), may be involved in adaptation of the HPA axis to daily repeated stress. In the present study we analyze this issue in male mice and rats. Using a knock-out mice for the CB1 receptor (CB1-/-) we showed that mutant mice presented similar adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) response to the first IMO as wild-type mice. Daily repeated exposure to 1h of immobilization reduced the ACTH response to the stressor, regardless of the genotype, demonstrating that adaptation occurred to the same extent in absence of CB1R. Prototypical changes observed after repeated stress such as enhanced corticotropin releasing factor (CRH) gene expression in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, impaired body weight gain and reduced thymus weight were similarly observed in both genotypes. The lack of effect of CB1R in the expression of HPA adaptation to another similar stressor (restraint) was confirmed in wild-type CD1 mice by the lack of effect of the CB1R antagonist AM251 just before the last exposure to stress. Finally, the latter drug did not blunt the HPA, glucose and behavioral adaptation to daily repeated forced swim in rats. Thus, the present results indicate that CB1R is not critical for overall effects of daily repeated stress or proper adaptation of the HPA axis in mice and rats.
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PMID:Evidence against a critical role of CB1 receptors in adaptation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and other consequences of daily repeated stress. 2609 3