MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY Volume 152, Nos. 1-2 June 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 Stable over-expression of estrogen receptor-% in ECV304 cells inhibits proliferation and levels of secreted endothelin-! and vascular endothelial growth factor S. Hamid Ali, A.L. O’Donnell, S. Mohamed, S. Mousa, P. Dandona (USA) | Characterisation of the effects of natriuretic peptides upon ACTH secretion from the mouse pituitary S.B. Guild, G. Cramb (UK) 1] Serotonin-inducible transcription of interleukin-l% in uterine smooth muscle cells requires an AP-1 site: cloning and partial characterization of the rat IL-l« promoter T.T. Huang, J.M. Vinci, L. Lan, J.J. Jeffrey, B.D. Wilcox (USA) 21 Cloning of bovine estrogen receptor beta (ER): expression of novel deleted isoforms in reproductive tissues N. Walther, C. Lioutas, G. Tillmann, R. Ivell (Germany) 37 Differential expression of type | angiotensin II receptor mRNA and aldosterone responsiveness to an- giotensin in aldosterone-producing adenoma Y.-M. Chen, K.-D. Wu, M.-I. Hu-Tsai, J.-S. Chu, M.-K. Lai, B.-S. Hsieh (Taiwan, ROC) 47 Structural characterization of the goat uterine estrogen receptor activation factor using an endogenous calcium activated neutral protease M.P. Kumar, L. Bhaskar, R.V. Thampan (India) 57 Role of ecto-kinase in phorbol ester-enhanced growth hormone-binding protein release from human IM-9 cells Y. Saito, K. Takagi, R. Teshima, H. Ikebuchi, T. Yamazaki, J. Sawada (Japan) 65 Studies on two ecdysone receptor isoforms of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana S.C. Perera, T.R. Ladd, T.S. Dhadialla, P. J. Krell, S.S. Sohi, A. Retnakaran, S.R. Palli (Canada, USA) 73 DNA immunization is associated with increased activity of type I iodothyronine 5’-deiodinase in mouse liver J. Brtko, S. Mostbéck, S. Scheiblhofer, A. Hartl, J. Thalhamer (Slovak Republic, Austria) 85 Addition of an N-terminal dimerization domain promotes assembly of hCG analogs: implications for subunit combination and structure—function analysis W. Lin, M.X. Ransom, R.V. Myers, M.P. Bernard, W.R. Moyle (USA) 9] The subcellular localization of phospholipase D activities in rat Leydig cells A. Mette Strand, L. Lauritzen, A.M. Vinggaard, H.S. Hansen (Denmark) 99 Pit-1 mediates cell-specific and cAMP-induced transcription of the tilapia GH gene B. Sekkali, A. Belayew, M. Bortolussi, J.A. Martial, M. Muller (Belgium, Italy) 111 Developmental regulation of insulin-like growth factor-I and growth hormone receptor gene expression L. Shoba, M.R. An, S.J. Frank, W.L. Lowe, Jr. (USA) 125 The EGF response element in the prolactin promoter K.K. Jacob, E. Wininger, K. DiMinni, F.M. Stanley (USA) 137 DNase I hypersensitivity analysis of non-pituitary human prolactin gene expression M. Gaasenbeek, B. Gellersen, G.E. 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Haro, J. Bustamante, P. Hernandez, R. Flores, R. Aguilar, C. Lopez-Guajardo, A.O. Martinez (USA) Parathyroid hormone-related protein is a positive regulator of keratinocyte growth factor expression by normal dermal fibroblasts E.A.G. Blomme, Y. Sugimoto, Y.C. Lin, C.C. Capen, T.J. Rosol (USA) Androgen stimulates mitogen-activated protein kinase in human breast cancer cells X. Zhu, H. Li, J.-P. Liu, J.W. Funder (Australia) Announcement Calendar Notes to Authors PRINTED IN IRELAND a e e e ee