Endocrine Abstracts

Coupling metabolic processes to nutrient availability is essential for survival. The nuclear receptors PPARα and FXR regulate adaptive liver metabolism in the fasted-state and fed-state, respectively, through a complex mechanism that is incompletely understood. Here, we show that hepatic expression of the steroidogenic enzyme Cyp17al is strikingly regulated by feed-fast cycles via a repressive nuclear receptor cascade involving bile-acid:FXR signalling. Using both gain- a...

Coupling the release of pituitary hormones to the developmental stage of the oocyte is essential for female fertility. It is thought to require estrogen to have simultaneous positive and negative feedback effects on two spatially-distinct regions of the hypothalamus, the arcuate nucleus and ‘AVPV’ nucleus. However, the mechanistic basis for this differential effect is not known. Therefore, we mapped the genomic binding of the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) in bot...