MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY Volume 148, Nos. 1-2 February 25th 1999 Cited in Biological Abstracts; Elsevier BIOBASE/Current Awareness in Biological Sciences: Current Contents / Life Sciences: EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus, Informedicus, Pascal M CONTENTS Research Papers Retinoic acids up-regulate steroidogenic acute regulatory protein gene H.-K. Lee, M.-S. Yoo, H.-S. Choi, H.-B. Kwon, J. Soh (South Korea) Two different gene elements are required for glucose regulation of $14 transcription B. Liu, W. Li, C.N. Mariash (USA) Transforming growth factor-/f inhibits DNA synthesis in immature rat Leydig cells in vitro S.A. Khan, M. Mirsafian, K. Howdeshell, J.-H. Dorrington (Canada, USA) The p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade is not required for the stimulation of insulin secretion from rat islets of Langerhans C.J. Burns, S.L. Howell, P.M. Jones, S.J. Persaud (UK) A functional role of the erg-like inward-rectifying K* current in prolactin secretion from rat lactotrophs C.K. Bauer, R. Schafer, D. Schiemann, G. Reid, I. Hanganu, J.R. Schwarz (Germany) An androgen receptor mutation in the direct vicinity of the proposed C-terminal z-helix of the ligand binding domain containing the AF-2 transcriptional activating function core is associated with complete androgen insensitivity I. Peters, W. Weidemann, G. Romalo, D. Knorr, H.-U. Schweikert, K.-D. Spindler (Germany) Retinoid signaling in immortalized and carcinoma-derived human uroepithelial cells P. Waliszewski, M. Waliszewska, N. Gordon, R.E. Hurst, D.M. Benbrook, A. Dhar, G.P. Hemstreet, III (USA) Isolation and characterization of the mouse cytosolic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (GTP) gene: evidence for tissue-specific hypersensitive sites C.P. Williams, C. Postic, D. Robin, P. Robin, J. Parrinello, K. Shelton, R.L. Printz, M.A. Magnuson, D.K. Granner, C. Forest, R. Chalkley (USA, France) Orphan receptor Arp-| binds to the nucleotide sequence located between TATA box and transcriptional initiation site of the human angiotensinogen gene and reduces estrogen induced promoter activity C.S. Narayanan, Y. Cui, Y.Y. Zhao, J. Zhou, A. Kumar (USA) Regulation of steroidogenesis in jc-410, a stable cell line of porcine granulosa origin M.R. Rodway, C.L. Swan, C. Gillio-Meina, N.K. Crellin, P.F. Flood, P.J. Chedrese (Canada) Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) juvenile hormone esterase: hormonal regulation, developmental expression and cDNA cloning Q.-L. Feng, T.R. Ladd, B.L. Tomkins, M. Sundaram, S.S. Sohi, A. Retnakaran, K.G. Davey, S.R. Palli (Canada) Regulation of protein kinase C 0 by estrogen in the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line M. Shanmugam, N.L. Krett, E.T. Maizels, R.E. Cutler, Jr, C.A. Peters, L.M. Smith, M.L. O’Brien, O.-K. Park-Sarge, S.T. Rosen, M. 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Phillips (Australia) Differential protein-DNA binding analysis identifies a novel enhancer element, US-1, involved in the upregulation of the oxytocin receptor gene in human myometrium at term T. Kimura, Y. Mizumoto, R. Ivell (Japan, Germany) Prolactin receptor expression in the testis of the ram: localisation, functional activation and the influence of gonadotrophins H.N. Jabbour, G.A. Lincoln (UK) In vitro regulation of rat Sertoli cell transferrin expression by tumor necrosis factor x and retinoic acid F. Sigillo, F. Guillou, I. Fontaine, M. Benahmed, B. Le Magueresse-Battistoni (France) Calendar Notes to Authors PRINTED IN IRELAND