MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY Volume 147, Nos. 1-2 January 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 At The Cutting Edge Insulin inhibition of glucocorticoid-stimulated gene transcription: requirement for an insulin response element? C.E. Pierreux, G.G. Rousseau, F.P. Lemaigre (Belgium) | Research Papers Treatment of human endometrial stromal cells with chorionic gonadotropin promotes their morphological and functional differentiation into decidua S.W. Han, Z.M. Lei, C.V. Rao (USA) 7 Regulation of human growth hormone receptor gene transcription by triiodothyronine (T,) P.E. Mullis, A. Eblé, U. Marti, U. Biirgi, M.-C. Postel-Vinay (Switzerland, France) 17 The stimulatory effect of endothelin-1 on frog adrenocortical cells is mediated through both the phospholi- pase C and the adenylyl cyclase transduction pathways F. Cartier, C. Delarue, I. Remy-Jouet, M.K. Kodjo, A. Fournier, H. Vaudry (France, Canada) 7 Conserved amino acids in the ligand-binding and t, domains of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor « are necessary for heterodimerization with RXR A. Gorla-Bajszezak, C. Juge-Aubry, A. Pernin, A.G. Burger, C.A. Meier (Switzerland) 37 Acute pretranslational regulation of type III iodothyronine deiodinase by growth hormone and dexam- ethasone in chicken embryos S. Van der Geyten, N. Buys, J.P. Sanders, E. Decuypere, T.J. Visser, E.R. Kithn, V.M. Darras (Belgium, The Netherlands) 49 Biosynthesis of secretogranin II in Xenopus intermediate pituitary A.M. Van Horssen, G.J.M. Martens (The Netherlands) 57 Characterization of the porcine Lhx3/LIM-3/P-Lim LIM homeodomain transcription factor B.C. Meier, J.R. Price, G.E. Parker, J.A.L. Bridwell, S.J. Rhodes (USA) 65 Characterization of membrane estrogen binding proteins from rabbit uterus P. Monje, R. Boland (Argentina) 75 Correlation between expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor # and squamous differentiation in epidermal and tracheobronchial epithelial cells H. Matsuura, H. Adachi, R. C. Smart, X. Xu, J. Arata, A. M. Jetten (USA, Japan) 85 Analysis of proopiomelanocortin gene transcription mechanisms in bronchial tumour cells A. Picon, X. Bertagna, Y. de Keyzer (France) 93 CBP-dependent and independent enhancing activity of steroid receptor coactivator-1 in thyroid hormone receptor-mediated transactivation M. Ikeda, A. Kawaguchi, A. Takeshita, W.W. Chin, T. Endo, T. Onaya (Japan, USA) 103 (Contents continued on inside back cover) This journal is part of ContentsDirect, the free alerting service which sends tables of contents by e-mail for Elsevier Science books and journals. 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If you need information about the journal, you can find all details (including full “Notes to Authors’) on the World Wide Web: access under http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/mce or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/mce (Contents continued from outside back cover) Characterization of the translated products of the alternatively spliced luteinizing hormone receptor in the ovine ovary throughout the oestrous cycle D.J. Bacich, C.R. Earl, D.S. O’Keefe, R.J. Norman, R.J. Rodgers (Australia) 113 Prolactin kinase activity in bovine anterior pituitary sub-cellular fractions J.R. Wicks, C.L. Brooks (USA) 125 Different bioactivities of human thyrotropin receptors with different signal peptides J. Young Park, J. Lee, B.Y. Cho, C.-B. Chae (South Korea) 133 Transcriptional regulation of adrenomedullin in rat vascular smooth muscle cells Y. Hattori, A. Mimura, K. Akimoto, K. Kasai (Japan) 143 Growth hormone and the expression of mRNAs for matrix proteins and oncogenes in bone M.A. Salih, P.B. Orhii, C. Chen, D.N. Kalu (USA) 149 The lack of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor desensitisation in «T3-1 cells is not due to GnRH receptor reserve or phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bis-phosphate pool size W. Forrest-Owen, G.B. Willars, $.R. Nahorski, D. Assefa, J.S. Davidson, J. Hislop, C.A. McArdle (UK, South Africa) Calendar Notes to Authors PRINTED IN IRELAND