Wirasak Fungfuang   Tomoaki Nakada   Nobuhiro Nakao   Misao Terada   Makoto Yokosuka   Sveinbjorn Gizurarson   Jann Hau   Changjong Moon   Toru R Saito   
Laboratory animal research 29(1) 1-6 2013年3月 [査読有り]
The aim of this study was to investigate food intake, serum leptin levels, and leptin mRNA expression during the sexual cycle in rats. Female Wistar-Imamichi rats aged 8-10 weeks were used in this experiment. Food intake was measured during the li...
Prolactin (PRL) has numerous physiological functions that are mediated by its receptors in target cells. Expression of the rat PRL receptor (PRLR) gene is regulated in a tissue-specific manner via the transcriptional activation of five distinct fi...
Hidemi Tabata   Momoko Kobayashi   Junko H. Ikeda   Nobuhiro Nakao   Toru R. Saito   Minoru Tanaka   
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY 48(2) 169-176 2012年4月 [査読有り]
Prolactin (Prl) receptor (Prlr) gene is expressed in various brain regions, with the highest level present in the choroid plexus, a site for receptor-mediated PRL transport from the blood to cerebrospinal fluid. We investigated the regulatory mech...
Yamamoto I   Ishikawa S   Li G   Takemitsu H   Fujiwara M   Mori N   Hatano Y   Suzuki T   Mori A   Nakao N   Kawasumi K   Sako T   Arai T   
Veterinary Medicine Research and Reports 3 65-69 2012年 [査読有り]
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY 174(2) 116-123 2011年11月 [査読有り]
Neuromedin U (NMU) is a bioactive peptide that is involved in a variety of physiological functions. Two of its receptors, NMUR1 and NMUR2, have been identified and characterized in mammals. In this study, we performed cDNA cloning of chicken NMUR1...