Roles of connexins and pannexins in (neuro)endocrine physiology

Pannexin 1 channels: new actors in the regulation of catecholamine release from adrenal chromaffin cells

(2014) Fanny Momboisse et al.   Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Tanycytic VEGF-A Boosts Blood-Hypothalamus Barrier Plasticity and Access of Metabolic Signals to the Arcuate Nucleus in Response to Fasting

(2013) Fanny Langlet et al.   Cell Metabolism

Hypothalamic Astroglial Connexins are Required for Brain Glucose Sensing-Induced Insulin Secretion

(2013) Camille Allard et al.   JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM

Navigating Pituitary Structure and Function - Defining a Roadmap for Hormone Secretion

(2013) David J Hodson et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Physiological Regulation of Magnocellular Neurosecretory Cell Activity: Integration of Intrinsic, Local and Afferent Mechanisms

(2013) C. H. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Gap junction signalling is a stress-regulated component of adrenal neuroendocrine stimulus-secretion coupling in vivo

(2013) Michel G. Desarménien et al.   Nature Communications

Connexin and pannexin hemichannels in brain glial cells: properties, pharmacology, and roles

(2013) Christian Giaume et al.   Frontiers in Pharmacology

Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating peptide enhances electrical coupling in the mouse adrenal medulla

(2012) Jacqueline Hill et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY

Pituitary endocrine cell networks – 10 years and beyond

(2012) David J. Hodson et al.   ANNALES D ENDOCRINOLOGIE

Paracrine signaling through plasma membrane hemichannels

(2012) Nan Wang et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Connexin-36 Gap Junctions Regulate In Vivo First- and Second-Phase Insulin Secretion Dynamics and Glucose Tolerance in the Conscious Mouse

(2012) W. S. Head et al.   DIABETES

Connexins and β-cell functions

(2012) Valentina Cigliola et al.   DIABETES RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

PACAP Controls Adrenomedullary Catecholamine Secretion and Expression of Catecholamine Biosynthetic Enzymes at High Splanchnic Nerve Firing Rates Characteristic of Stress Transduction in Male Mice

(2012) N. Stroth et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Anterior pituitary cell networks

(2012) P.R. Le Tissier et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Physiological mechanisms for the modulation of pannexin 1 channel activity

(2012) Joanna K. Sandilos et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LONDON

A tridimensional view of pituitary development and function

(2012) Patrice Mollard et al.   TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

Existence of long-lasting experience-dependent plasticity in endocrine cell networks

(2012) David J. Hodson et al.   Nature Communications

Reduced Cx43 Gap Junction Plaque Expression Differentiates Thyroid Carcinomas From Benign Disease

(2011) E. Ashlie Darr   ARCHIVES OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD & NECK SURGERY

Connexin-dependent signaling in neuro-hormonal systems

(2011) Ilaria Potolicchio et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Gap junction-mediated intercellular communication in the adrenal medulla: An additional ingredient of stimulus–secretion coupling regulation

(2011) Claude Colomer et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Glutamate release through connexin 43 by cultured astrocytes in a stimulated hypertonicity model

(2011) Shan Jiang et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Possible contribution of pannexin channel to ATP-induced currents in vitro in vasopressin neurons isolated from the rat supraoptic nucleus

(2011) Toyoaki Ohbuchi et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Coordination of calcium signals by pituitary endocrine cells in situ

(2011) David J. Hodson et al.   CELL CALCIUM

Expression and Roles of Pannexins in ATP Release in the Pituitary Gland

(2011) Shuo Li et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Gap Junctions between Neuronal Inputs But Not Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons Control Estrous Cycles in the Mouse

(2011) Rebecca E. Campbell et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Characterization of novel Pannexin 1 isoforms from rat pituitary cells and their association with ATP-gated P2X channels

(2011) Shuo Li et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Glucose increases intracellular free Ca2+ in tanycytes via ATP released through connexin 43 hemichannels

(2011) Juan A. Orellana et al.   GLIA

Pulsatile patterns of pituitary hormone gene expression change during development

(2011) K. Featherstone et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Connexins: Key Mediators of Endocrine Function

(2011) Domenico Bosco et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Related pituitary cell lineages develop into interdigitated 3D cell networks

(2011) L. Budry et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Altered Expression of the Gap Junction Protein Connexin43 Is Associated with Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas When Compared with Other Noncancer Pathologies of the Thyroid

(2011) Claudia Dominguez et al.   THYROID

Ion Channels and Signaling in the Pituitary Gland

(2010) Stanko S. Stojilkovic et al.   ENDOCRINE REVIEWS

Novel Ontogenetic Patterns of Sexual Differentiation in Arcuate Nucleus GHRH Neurons Revealed in GHRH-Enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein Transgenic Mice

(2010) Simon McArthur et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Use of a prolactin-Cre/ROSA-YFP transgenic mouse provides no evidence for lactotroph transdifferentiation after weaning, or increase in lactotroph/somatotroph proportion in lactation

(2010) Emma Castrique et al.   JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY

Functional Characterization of  9-Containing Cholinergic Nicotinic Receptors in the Rat Adrenal Medulla: Implication in Stress-Induced Functional Plasticity

(2010) C. Colomer et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

GnRH-Induced [Ca2+]i-Signalling Patterns in Mouse Gonadotrophs Recorded from Acute Pituitary Slices in vitro

(2010) Claudia Sánchez-Cárdenas et al.   NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Pituitary growth hormone network responses are sexually dimorphic and regulated by gonadal steroids in adulthood

(2010) C. Sanchez-Cardenas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stress-induced Intercellular Communication Remodeling in the Rat Adrenal Medulla

(2009) Claude Colomer et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Colocalization of connexin 36 and corticotropin-releasing hormone in the mouse brain

(2009) Lars Westberg et al.   BMC NEUROSCIENCE

Different Degrees of Somatotroph Ablation Compromise Pituitary Growth Hormone Cell Network Structure and Other Pituitary Endocrine Cell Types

(2009) Eleanor Waite et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Cell adhesion receptors and gap junctions in normal and neoplastic transformed thyrocytes

(2009) E. Pötter et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & DIABETES

PACAP regulates immediate catecholamine release from adrenal chromaffin cells in an activity-dependent manner through a protein kinase C-dependent pathway

(2009) Barbara A. Kuri et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Pannexin 1: The Molecular Substrate of Astrocyte "Hemichannels"

(2009) R. Iglesias et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Revisiting the Stimulus-Secretion Coupling in the Adrenal Medulla: Role of Gap Junction-Mediated Intercellular Communication

(2009) Claude Colomer et al.   MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY

Immunohistochemistry of connexin 43 throughout anterior pituitary gland in a transgenic rat with green fluorescent protein-expressing folliculo-stellate cells

(2008) Kotaro Horiguchi et al.   ANATOMICAL SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL

ATP release by way of connexin 36 hemichannels mediates ischemic tolerance in vitro

(2008) Sarah C. Schock et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Migrating Cells Retain Gap Junction Plaque Structure and Function

(2008) Bado Hewa Defranco et al.   CELL COMMUNICATION AND ADHESION

Connexin40 Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Is Positively Regulated by Thyroid Hormone (TH) Acting in Cardiac Atria via the TH Receptor

(2008) Norma A. S. Almeida et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Functional Remodeling of Gap Junction-Mediated Electrical Communication between Adrenal Chromaffin Cells in Stressed Rats

(2008) C. Colomer et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Gap junctions as modulators of adrenal cortical cell proliferation and steroidogenesis

(2008) S.A. Murray et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Astroglial Metabolic Networks Sustain Hippocampal Synaptic Transmission

(2008) N. Rouach et al.   SCIENCE

Connexin-32 acts as a downregulator of growth of thyroid gland

(2007) Gaëlle Prost et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM