... with intrauterine nicotine exposure showed a significantly higher prevalence of own smoking habits and lower educational status compared to those in the group without exposure. Conclusion: Smoking during pregnancy may be considered as an adverse intrauterine influence that may alter the endocrine-metabolic status...

... to in the content or advertisements. Corticotropin Corticotropin releasing hormone Ethanol Adrenal steroids Noradrenalin Serotonin Nicotine 5-Hydroxyindoleacetic acid 3-Methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol Clinical neuroendocrinology Clinical Neuroendocrinology Neuroendocrinology 1994:60:635-642 Thomas D...

...James R. Pauly; Allan C. Collins Previous studies from our laboratory have established an interaction between central nervous system nicotinic cholinergic systems and glucocorticoid hormones. When mice are treated for 1 week with exogenous corticosterone (CORT) they become insensitive...

...Christopher M. Flores; Bridget A. Hulihan-Giblin; Pamela J. Hornby; Michael D. Lumpkin; Kenneth J. Kellar Nicotinic cholinergic, opiate and serotonergic agonists as well as dopaminer-gic antagonists induce the release of pituitary prolactin. The purposes of the present studies were to determine...

...Joseph Weidenfeld; Miriam Bodoff; David Saphier; Talma Brenner The aim of the present study was to further characterize the site of action of nicotine-induced hypothalamo-hypophyseal-adrenal (HHA) activation. A systemic injection of nicotine in concentrations of 65–2,100 µg/kg elevated serum...

... immunoreactive CRH (IR-rCRH) in vitro. ACh stimulated hypothalamic IR-rCRH secretion in a dose-dependent fashion, at concentrations ranging from 3.3 × 10 –10 to 10 –5 M . This effect was antagonized by the simultaneous presence of atropine and hexamethonium, a muscarinic and a nicotinic receptor antagonist...

...Kurt Andersson; Kjell Fuxe; Peter Eneroth; Anders Härfstrand; Luigi F. Agnati Male rats were treated acutely with nicotine (4 × 2 mg/kg, 30-min time intervals, total treatment time 2 h) or exposed to cigarette smoke from 4 × 1 cigarette (30-min time intervals, total treatment time 2 h). Some rats...

... type) burned at 30-min intervals. Control animals were exposed to air alone or to nicotine-free cigarette smoke (Cambridge glass fibre filters). In contrast to chronic exposure to filtered smoke, exposure to unfiltered smoke resulted in a 10% increase in catecholamine (CA) levels (quantitative...

...J.N. Hayward; K. Pavasuthipaisit The objective of this study was to determine the effects of i.v. nicotine on plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP), plasma osmolality, and behavior in the conscious monkey. Adult, female, chronically prepared monkeys (Macaca mulatta) were studied with i.v. infusion of 5...

... the pulsatile discharge of the hormone and depressed the plasma LH concentration. Neither progesterone nor small amounts of rat prolactin altered the pulsatile rhythm or lowered plasma LH levels. A s.c. injection of nicotine tartrate at a dosage which blocks the pro-estrous rise of LH caused a marked depression...

...Y. Kato; K. Chihara; S. Ohgo; H. Imura Intravenous injections of chlorpromazine(200 µ g/100 g b.w.) or pentobarbital (2 mg/100 g b.w.) caused significant increases in both plasma growth hormone (GH) and prolactin levels in urethane-anesthetized rats. The concurrent administration of nicotine (0.02...