Michael D Culler

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1 Chronic treatment with a melanocortin-4 receptor agonist causes weight loss, reduces insulin resistance, and improves cardiovascular function in diet-induced obese rhesus macaques. Diabetes 2012 1.91
2 Identification of adropin as a secreted factor linking dietary macronutrient intake with energy homeostasis and lipid metabolism. Cell Metab 2008 1.45
3 Ghrelin treatment causes increased food intake and retention of lean body mass in a rat model of cancer cachexia. Endocrinology 2007 1.25
4 Ghrelin treatment of chronic kidney disease: improvements in lean body mass and cytokine profile. Endocrinology 2007 1.23
5 Adropin deficiency is associated with increased adiposity and insulin resistance. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2012 1.19
6 Analysis of the therapeutic functions of novel melanocortin receptor agonists in MC3R- and MC4R-deficient C57BL/6J mice. Peptides 2009 1.16
7 Taspoglutide, an analog of human glucagon-like Peptide-1 with enhanced stability and in vivo potency. Endocrinology 2010 1.04
8 Novel analogs of ghrelin: physiological and clinical implications. Eur J Endocrinol 2004 1.01
9 Long-term effects of ghrelin and ghrelin receptor agonists on energy balance in rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2008 1.01
10 Rapid pituitary tumor shrinkage with dissociation between antiproliferative and antisecretory effects of a long-acting octreotide in an acromegalic patient. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2007 0.97
11 Distinct functional properties of native somatostatin receptor subtype 5 compared with subtype 2 in the regulation of ACTH release by corticotroph tumor cells. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2005 0.95
12 Effect of ghrelin and its analogues, BIM-28131 and BIM-28125, on the expression of myostatin in a rat heart failure model. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle 2012 0.95
13 Ghrelin, peptide YY and their hypothalamic targets differentially regulate spontaneous physical activity. Physiol Behav 2011 0.94
14 Combined effects of ghrelin and higher food intake enhance skeletal muscle mitochondrial oxidative capacity and AKT phosphorylation in rats with chronic kidney disease. Kidney Int 2010 0.93
15 No effects of human ghrelin on cardiac function despite profound effects on body composition in a rat model of heart failure. Int J Cardiol 2008 0.92
16 A potential inhibitory role for the new truncated variant of somatostatin receptor 5, sst5TMD4, in pituitary adenomas poorly responsive to somatostatin analogs. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2010 0.92
17 Drug Insight: prolactin-receptor antagonists, a novel approach to treatment of unresolved systemic and local hyperprolactinemia? Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab 2006 0.91
18 Somatostatin receptor subtype 1 selective activation in human growth hormone (GH)- and prolactin (PRL)-secreting pituitary adenomas: effects on cell viability, GH, and PRL secretion. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003 0.90
19 Regulation of growth hormone and prolactin gene expression and secretion by chimeric somatostatin-dopamine molecules. Endocrinology 2007 0.89
20 A novel growth hormone secretagogue-1a receptor antagonist that blocks ghrelin-induced growth hormone secretion but induces increased body weight gain. Neuroendocrinology 2005 0.89
21 Selective activation of somatostatin receptor subtypes differentially modulates secretion and viability in human medullary thyroid carcinoma primary cultures: potential clinical perspectives. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006 0.89
22 Efficacy of a dopamine-somatostatin chimeric molecule, BIM-23A760, in the control of cell growth from primary cultures of human non-functioning pituitary adenomas: a multi-center study. Endocr Relat Cancer 2008 0.87
23 Constitutive somatostatin receptor activity determines tonic pituitary cell response. Mol Endocrinol 2009 0.86
24 Somatostatin analogs in vitro effects in a growth hormone-releasing hormone-secreting bronchial carcinoid. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2005 0.86
25 Discovery of adamantyl ethanone derivatives as potent 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11beta-HSD1) inhibitors. ChemMedChem 2010 0.86
26 Functional association of somatostatin receptor subtypes 2 and 5 in inhibiting human growth hormone secretion. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003 0.86
27 Somatostatin receptors 1, 2, and 5 cooperate in the somatostatin inhibition of C6 glioma cell proliferation in vitro via a phosphotyrosine phosphatase-eta-dependent inhibition of extracellularly regulated kinase-1/2. Endocrinology 2008 0.85
28 Ghrelin and its analogues, BIM-28131 and BIM-28125, improve body weight and regulate the expression of MuRF-1 and MAFbx in a rat heart failure model. PLoS One 2011 0.85
29 Selective regulation of somatostatin receptor subtype signaling: evidence for constitutive receptor activation. Mol Endocrinol 2007 0.85
30 Novel chimeric somatostatin analogs: facts and perspectives. Eur J Endocrinol 2007 0.84
31 Somatostatin receptor type 5 modulates somatostatin receptor type 2 regulation of adrenocorticotropin secretion. J Biol Chem 2005 0.83
32 Somatostatin receptor subtype 1-selective activation reduces cell growth and calcitonin secretion in a human medullary thyroid carcinoma cell line. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002 0.83
33 Cortistatin inhibits migration and proliferation of human vascular smooth muscle cells and decreases neointimal formation on carotid artery ligation. Circ Res 2013 0.83
34 Role of complex cyclin d1/cdk4 in somatostatin subtype 2 receptor-mediated inhibition of cell proliferation of a medullary thyroid carcinoma cell line in vitro. Endocrinology 2006 0.82
35 Cortistatin inhibits growth hormone release from human fetal and adenoma pituitary cells and prolactin secretion from cultured prolactinomas. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006 0.82
36 Suppression of rat and human growth hormone and prolactin secretion by a novel somatostatin/dopaminergic chimeric ligand. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003 0.81
37 Balance between somatostatin and D2 receptor expression drives TSH-secreting adenoma response to somatostatin analogues and dopastatins. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 2012 0.80
38 Somatostatin and dopamine-somatostatin multiple ligands directed towards somatostatin and dopamine receptors in pituitary adenomas. Neuroendocrinology 2006 0.80
39 Effect of application route of the ghrelin analog BIM-28131 (RM-131) on body weight and body composition in a rat heart failure model. Int J Cardiol 2013 0.80
40 Somatostatinergic ligands in dopamine-sensitive and -resistant prolactinomas. Eur J Endocrinol 2008 0.80
41 Differential efficacy of SSTR1, -2, and -5 agonists in the inhibition of C6 glioma growth in nude mice. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2009 0.80
42 Somatostatin analogs and chimeric somatostatin-dopamine molecules differentially regulate human growth hormone and prolactin gene expression and secretion in vitro. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2012 0.79
43 Preclinical and clinical experiences with the role of dopamine receptors in the treatment of pituitary adenomas. Eur J Endocrinol 2007 0.79
44 Discovery of novel inhibitors of human 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2008 0.79
45 Adamantyl ethanone pyridyl derivatives: potent and selective inhibitors of human 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1. ChemMedChem 2011 0.78
46 Subtype selective interactions of somatostatin and somatostatin analogs with sst1, sst2, and sst5 in BON-1 cells. Med Oncol 2004 0.78
47 Discovery of adamantyl heterocyclic ketones as potent 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 inhibitors. ChemMedChem 2011 0.77
48 Evidence for differential effects of selective somatostatin receptor subtype agonists on alpha-subunit and chromogranin a secretion and on cell viability in human nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas in vitro. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2004 0.77
49 Glucocorticoid inhibition of growth in rats: partial reversal with the full-length ghrelin analog BIM-28125. Pituitary 2007 0.77
50 Somatostatin and dopamine receptor expression in lung carcinoma cells and effects of chimeric somatostatin-dopamine molecules on cell proliferation. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2005 0.77
51 Leukemia inhibitory factor regulates prolactin secretion in prolactinoma and lactotroph cells. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2003 0.76
52 Adamantyl carboxamides and acetamides as potent human 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 inhibitors. Bioorg Med Chem 2012 0.75
53 Novel melanocortin-4 receptor agonists that decrease food intake and body weight. Adv Exp Med Biol 2009 0.75
54 Regulation of prostate cancer cell proliferation by somatostatin receptor activation. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2009 0.75
55 The somatostatin subtype-2 receptor antagonist, BIM-23627, improves the catabolic effects induced by long-term glucocorticoid treatment in the rat. Regul Pept 2005 0.75
56 Lanreotide promotes apoptosis and is not radioprotective in GH3 cells. Endocr Relat Cancer 2009 0.75
57 The toxicology of chemokine inhibition. Mini Rev Med Chem 2005 0.75
58 GHS-1a agonists that effectively stimulate food intake and body weight gain. Adv Exp Med Biol 2009 0.75