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Hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal activity during human sleep: a coordinating role for the limbic hippocampal systemJ Born
Clinical Neuroendocrinology and Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Lubeck, Germany
Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes 106:153-63. 1998..First clinical trials suggest that this trias of symptoms may benefit from intranasal treatment with neuropeptides like vasopressin and growth hormone releasing hormone...
Awareness in memory: being explicit about the role of sleepJan Born
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Trends Cogn Sci 8:242-4. 2004..These new data add to emerging evidence that sleep-related memory consolidation involves an interaction between different memory systems...
Sleep to rememberJan Born
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Neuroscientist 12:410-24. 2006....
Sniffing neuropeptides: a transnasal approach to the human brainJan Born
Department of Neuroendocrinology, , Ratzeburger Allee 160, , Germany
Nat Neurosci 5:514-6. 2002
Neuropsychological effects of vasopressin in healthy humansJ Born
University of Lubeck, Germany
Prog Brain Res 119:619-43. 1998..A mediation of effects by peripheral changes can be excluded since the central nervous effects were observed in studies using intranasal VP administration providing a direct access to brain functions...
Impaired off-line consolidation of motor memories after combined blockade of cholinergic receptors during REM sleep-rich sleepBjörn Rasch
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Neuropsychopharmacology 34:1843-53. 2009..Taken together, these results identify high cholinergic activity during late, REM sleep-rich sleep as an essential factor promoting sleep-dependent consolidation of motor skills...
Early morning rise in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activity: a role for maintaining the brain's energy balanceChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 34:455-62. 2009..Sleep is not critically involved in this glucose-glucocorticoid feedback loop but may reduce the brain's sensitivity to the anorexigenic effect of enhanced glucose supply...
Towards the therapeutic use of intranasal neuropeptide administration in metabolic and cognitive disordersManfred Hallschmid
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Regul Pept 149:79-83. 2008..Our results may contribute to the future development of therapeutic strategies in disorders like obesity and cognitive impairments that derive from dysfunctions of central nervous neuropeptidergic pathways...
Acute sleep deprivation reduces energy expenditure in healthy menChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Am J Clin Nutr 93:1229-36. 2011..Epidemiologic evidence indicates that chronic sleep curtailment increases risk of developing obesity, but the mechanisms behind this relation are largely unknown...
Euglycemic infusion of insulin detemir compared with human insulin appears to increase direct current brain potential response and reduces food intake while inducing similar systemic effectsManfred Hallschmid
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Diabetes 59:1101-7. 2010....
Pharmacological REM sleep suppression paradoxically improves rather than impairs skill memoryBjörn Rasch
University of Lubeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Haus 23a, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Nat Neurosci 12:396-7. 2009..Our results indicate that REM sleep as a unitary phenomenon is not required for skill-memory consolidation...
Intranasal insulin improves memory in humans: superiority of insulin aspartChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Neuropsychopharmacology 32:239-43. 2007..This finding may be especially relevant for a potential clinical administration of intranasal insulin in the treatment of memory disorders like Alzheimer's disease...
Altered neuroendocrine sleep architecture in patients with type 1 diabetesKamila Jauch-Chara
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Diabetes Care 31:1183-8. 2008..Disturbances of sleep may arise from and contribute to the disease process in chronically ill patients with type 1 diabetes...
Processing of food stimuli is selectively enhanced during insulin-induced hypoglycemia in healthy menBernd Schultes
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D 23538 Luebeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 30:496-504. 2005..If executive control of attention becomes affected by hypoglycemia, cognitive resources appear to be preferentially allocated to the processing of food stimuli...
Shift of monocyte function toward cellular immunity during sleepTanja Lange
Department of Internal Medicine, , , Germany
Arch Intern Med 166:1695-700. 2006....
Intranasal atrial natriuretic peptide acts as central nervous inhibitor of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal stress system in humansBoris Perras
Medizinische Klinik I, Universitatsklinikum Schleswig Holstein, Campus Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D 23558 Lübeck, Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:4642-8. 2004..The absence of an effect on CRH/VP-induced pituitary-adrenal responses suggests a direct action of the peptide on the central nervous system inhibiting stimulated hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal activity at the hypothalamic level...
Intranasal insulin improves memory in humansChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 29:1326-34. 2004..These findings could be of relevance for the treatment of patients with memory disorders like in Alzheimer's disease...
Comparable sensitivity of postmenopausal and young women to the effects of intranasal insulin on food intake and working memoryRosemarie Krug
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Hs 50 1, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:E468-72. 2010....
Improvement of sleep and pituitary-adrenal inhibition after subchronic intranasal vasopressin treatment in elderly humansBoris Perras
Institute of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Germany
J Clin Psychopharmacol 23:35-44. 2003..Overall, results indicate a promoting effect of AVP on SWS in aged accompanied by a beneficial rather than impairing influence on the neuroendocrine pattern of sleep...
Effects of cortisol suppression on sleep-associated consolidation of neutral and emotional memoryUllrich Wagner
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 58:885-93. 2005..The role of the strong cortisol rise accompanying late sleep for emotional memory consolidation has not yet been investigated...
The memory function of noradrenergic activity in non-REM sleepSteffen Gais
University of Lubeck, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 23:2582-92. 2011..We conclude that noradrenergic activity during non-REM sleep interacts with other sleep-related mechanisms to functionally contribute to off-line memory consolidation...
Transcranial direct current stimulation during sleep improves declarative memoryLisa Marshall
Institute of Neuroendocrinology H23a, University of Lubeck, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
J Neurosci 24:9985-92. 2004..Shifts in extracellular ionic concentration in frontocortical tissue (expressed as negative DC potentials during SWS) may facilitate sleep-dependent consolidation of declarative memories...
Meal anticipation potentiates postprandial ghrelin suppression in humansVolker Ott
Department of Neuroendocrinology, Hs 50 1, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Luebeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 37:1096-100. 2012....
Sleep associated regulation of T helper 1/T helper 2 cytokine balance in humansStoyan Dimitrov
Department of Neuroendocrinology, , Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, , Germany
Brain Behav Immun 18:341-8. 2004..001). Though unexpected, the most pronounced effect of sleep on T cell cytokine production was a robust decrease in TNF-alpha producing CD8+ cells probably reflecting increased extravasation of cytotoxic effector and memory T cells...
Sleep selectively enhances memory expected to be of future relevanceInes Wilhelm
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
J Neurosci 31:1563-9. 2011..In conclusion, our work shows that sleep preferentially benefits consolidation of memories that are relevant for future behavior, presumably through a SWS-dependent reprocessing of these memories...
Sleep, hormones, and memoryJan Born
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Haus 23a, Lubeck, Germany
Obstet Gynecol Clin North Am 36:809-29, x. 2009....
High-calorie glucose-rich food attenuates neuroglycopenic symptoms in patients with Addison's diseaseJohanna Klement
University of Lubeck, Department of Internal Medicine I, Ratzeburger Allee 160, House 32, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95:522-8. 2010..It will be important to investigate whether additional oral glucose supply may be helpful in improving patients' well-being...
A 3-day estrogen treatment improves prefrontal cortex-dependent cognitive function in postmenopausal womenRosemarie Krug
Department of Neuroendocrinologie, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Hs 23a, D 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 31:965-75. 2006..Our results encourage future studies to investigate whether repeated induction of short-lasting estrogen peaks could enhance cognitive efficacy of hormonal replacement therapy...
Sleep enhances serum interleukin-7 concentrations in humansChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Hs 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Brain Behav Immun 21:1058-62. 2007..The findings concur with the notion of a supportive influence of sleep on T cell function related to formation of T cell memory...
Suppressing the morning rise in cortisol impairs free recallUlrike Rimmele
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Luebeck 23562, Germany
Learn Mem 17:186-90. 2010..Thus, not only high, but also very low glucocorticoid levels impair retrieval, with the latter effect possibly reflecting insufficient occupation of hippocampal/amygdalar mineralocorticoid receptors (MRs)...
Modulation of food intake by glucose in patients with type 2 diabetesBernd Schultes
Department of Internal Medicine I, Medical University Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, D 23538 Luebeck, Germany
Diabetes Care 28:2884-9. 2005..On this background, we hypothesized that a short-term reduction of blood glucose concentration to normal values acutely increases food intake in type 2 diabetic patients...
Combined blockade of cholinergic receptors shifts the brain from stimulus encoding to memory consolidationBjörn H Rasch
University of Lubeck, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 18:793-802. 2006....
Contribution of norepinephrine to emotional memory consolidation during sleepSabine Groch
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Luebeck, Haus 50 1, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Luebeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 36:1342-50. 2011..Here, we examined whether NE supports the consolidation of amygdala-dependent emotional memory during SWS...
Differential sensitivity of men and women to anorexigenic and memory-improving effects of intranasal insulinChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Hs 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 93:1339-44. 2008..Long-term administration of intranasal insulin reduces body weight in men, but not in women, while improving hippocampus-dependent memory processing in both genders...
Sleep-stage-specific regulation of plasma catecholamine concentrationBjörn Rasch
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:884-91. 2007....
Shifting from implicit to explicit knowledge: different roles of early- and late-night sleepJuliana Yordanova
Department of Neurology, University of Lubeck, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Learn Mem 15:508-15. 2008....
Sleep-like concentrations of growth hormone and cortisol modulate type1 and type2 in-vitro cytokine production in human T cellsTanja Lange
Department of Internal Medicine, , Germany
Int Immunopharmacol 6:216-25. 2006..Yet, our finding of predominant type1 activity after cortisol administration, rules out any relevance of this suppression for the shift towards type1 activity during SWS...
Influence of captopril on symptomatic and hormonal responses to hypoglycaemia in humansKerstin M Oltmanns
Department of Internal Medicine I, Institute of Pharmacology and Clinical Neuroendocrinology, Medical University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Luebeck, Germany
Br J Clin Pharmacol 55:347-53. 2003..Although ACE inhibitors are approved for controlling diabetic complications, previous investigations regarding this putative side-effect are controversial...
Effects of sleep and circadian rhythm on the human immune systemTanja Lange
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1193:48-59. 2010....
Cortisol and epinephrine control opposing circadian rhythms in T cell subsetsStoyan Dimitrov
Departments of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Germany
Blood 113:5134-43. 2009..Thus, activation of the major stress hormones during daytime favor immediate effector defense but diminish capabilities for initiating adaptive immune responses...
Immediate but not long-term intranasal administration of insulin raises blood pressure in human beingsChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Metabolism 54:1356-61. 2005..However, the effect is not observed with prolonged administration of the hormone, suggesting the emergence of counterregulatory processes...
Transcortical direct current potential shift reflects immediate signaling of systemic insulin to the human brainManfred Hallschmid
University of Lubeck, Institute of Neuroendocrinology, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Diabetes 53:2202-8. 2004..The rapid emergence of the DC potential shift, reflecting gross ionic changes in brain tissues, indicates that systemic insulin can serve as an immediate feedback signal in the control of hypothalamic and higher brain functions...
Declarative memory consolidation: mechanisms acting during human sleepSteffen Gais
Department of Neuroendocrinology, , , Germany
Learn Mem 11:679-85. 2004..In addition, sleep seems to provide an optimal milieu for declarative memory reprocessing and consolidation by reducing cholinergic activation and the cortisol feedback to the hippocampus during SWS...
Sleep and awareness about presence of regularity speed the transition from implicit to explicit knowledgeSpyridon Drosopoulos
University of Lubeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Lubeck, Germany
Biol Psychol 86:168-73. 2011..We conclude that whilst sleep facilitates the conversion of implicit into explicit knowledge, the effect of awareness is not specific to sleep-dependent consolidation...
Sleep enhances false memories depending on general memory performanceSusanne Diekelmann
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Behav Brain Res 208:425-9. 2010..The other is related to the recovery function of sleep and affects cognitive control processes of retrieval. Both effects are unmasked when the material is relatively weakly encoded...
Differential energetic response of brain vs. skeletal muscle upon glycemic variations in healthy humansKerstin M Oltmanns
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538, Luebeck, Germany
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 294:R12-6. 2008..A disturbance of these mechanisms may have far-reaching implications for metabolic dysregulation associated with obesity or diabetes mellitus...
Odor cues during slow-wave sleep prompt declarative memory consolidationBjörn Rasch
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Science 315:1426-9. 2007..Concurring with these findings, functional magnetic resonance imaging revealed significant hippocampal activation in response to odor re-exposure during SWS...
No elevated plasma catecholamine levels during sleep in newly diagnosed, untreated hypertensivesBjörn Rasch
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
PLoS ONE 6:e21292. 2011....
Intranasal insulin reduces body fat in men but not in womenManfred Hallschmid
Institute of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Diabetes 53:3024-9. 2004..Our results provide a strong, first confirmation in humans that insulin acts as a negative feedback signal in the regulation of adiposity and point to a differential sensitivity to the catabolic effects of insulin based on sex...
Food anticipation and subsequent food withdrawal increase serum cortisol in healthy menVolker Ott
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Luebeck, Germany
Physiol Behav 103:594-9. 2011....
The influence of learning on sleep slow oscillations and associated spindles and ripples in humans and ratsMatthias Mölle
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Eur J Neurosci 29:1071-81. 2009..Slow oscillations might provide an effective temporal frame for hippocampus-to-neocortical information transfer only when thalamo-neocortical systems are already critically involved during learning...
Blocking NMDA receptor signaling does not decrease hormonal counterregulation to hypoglycemia in humansIsabel Pais
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Luebeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 33:1069-76. 2008..Our data do not support the view that in humans, enhanced glutamate signaling during hypoglycemia supports the satisfaction of increased central nervous energy demands by enforcing hormonal counterregulation...
Enhancing influence of intranasal interleukin-6 on slow-wave activity and memory consolidation during sleepChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
FASEB J 23:3629-36. 2009..01). Other types of memory were not affected. The ability of IL-6 to enhance sleep-associated emotional memory consolidation highlights an example of a functional interaction between the central nervous and immune system...
Transcranial electrical currents to probe EEG brain rhythms and memory consolidation during sleep in humansLisa Marshall
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
PLoS ONE 6:e16905. 2011....
Sleep enhances explicit recollection in recognition memorySpyridon Drosopoulos
University of Lubeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology, D 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Learn Mem 12:44-51. 2005..05). The data indicate that in a task that allows separating the contribution of explicit and implicit memory, sleep particularly supports explicit memory formation. The mechanism of this effect appears to be linked to SWS...
Number and function of circulating human antigen presenting cells regulated by sleepStoyan Dimitrov
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Germany
Sleep 30:401-11. 2007....
Offline consolidation of memory varies with time in slow wave sleep and can be accelerated by cuing memory reactivationsSusanne Diekelmann
University of Lubeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Hs 50 1, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Neurobiol Learn Mem 98:103-11. 2012..External reactivation cues can accelerate the consolidation process even during shorter sleep episodes...
Boosting slow oscillations during sleep potentiates memoryLisa Marshall
University of Lubeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology, Haus 23a, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Nature 444:610-3. 2006..Our findings indicate that endogenous slow potential oscillations have a causal role in the sleep-associated consolidation of memory, and that this role is enhanced by field effects in cortical extracellular space...
Sleep-dependent surges in growth hormone do not contribute to sleep-dependent memory consolidationSteffen Gais
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Hs 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 31:786-91. 2006....
Hypoglycemia counterregulation during sleepSteffen Gais
Departments of Neuroendocrinology, Medical University of Lubeck, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Sleep 26:55-9. 2003..This study examined the influence of sleep on the counterregulatory response to hypoglycemia in healthy subjects...
Intranasal insulin enhances postprandial thermogenesis and lowers postprandial serum insulin levels in healthy menChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Germany
Diabetes 60:114-8. 2011..We determined the effect of intranasal insulin, which directly targets the brain, on glucose metabolism and energy expenditure in humans...
Overweight humans are resistant to the weight-reducing effects of melanocortin4-10Manfred Hallschmid
Department of Neuroendocrinology, , Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23, , Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 91:522-5. 2006..In overweight subjects, a decreased sensitivity to ACTH/MSH peptides may derive from alterations at the level of the melanocortin receptor or at subsequent steps in the processing of the body fat signal...
Manipulating central nervous mechanisms of food intake and body weight regulation by intranasal administration of neuropeptides in manManfred Hallschmid
Institute of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Physiol Behav 83:55-64. 2004..The results corroborate in humans the significance of all three messengers for the central nervous regulation of adiposity and might contribute to the future development of medical strategies against body-weight-related disorders...
Gut protein uptake and mechanisms of meal-induced cortisol releaseChristian Benedict
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 90:1692-6. 2005..We conclude that the meal-related hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis response to amino acids results from a signal that rather acts at the gastrointestinal mucosa than directly via the circulating blood...
Memory consolidation during sleep: interactive effects of sleep stages and HPA regulationUllrich Wagner
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Stress 11:28-41. 2008..The increase in cortisol release during late REM sleep-rich sleep may counteract an overshooting consolidation of emotional memories...
Slow-wave sleep and the consolidation of long-term memoryJan Born
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
World J Biol Psychiatry 11:16-21. 2010..This synchronization is thought to be critical to the long-term storage of respective memories within neocortical networks...
Systemic immune parameters and sleep after ultra-low dose administration of IL-2 in healthy menTanja Lange
Department of Internal Medicine, , Germany
Brain Behav Immun 16:663-74. 2002..Also, IL-2 increased the TSH concentration. There were no hints at a sleep promoting effect of IL-2. Immune changes suggest that nocturnal IL-2 administration induces a shift towards Th2 mediated defense...
Learning-dependent increases in sleep spindle densitySteffen Gais
Department of Neuroendocrinology, , , Germany
J Neurosci 22:6830-4. 2002..56; p < 0.05). Power spectra and time spent in sleep stages did not differ between learning and nonlearning conditions. Results indicate that spindle activity during non-REM sleep is sensitive to previous learning experience...
Sleep loss produces false memoriesSusanne Diekelmann
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
PLoS ONE 3:e3512. 2008..This effect was abolished by caffeine administration prior to retrieval, indicating that adenosinergic mechanisms can contribute to the generation of false memories associated with sleep loss...
The whats and whens of sleep-dependent memory consolidationSusanne Diekelmann
University of Lubeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Sleep Med Rev 13:309-21. 2009....
The memory function of sleepSusanne Diekelmann
University of Lubeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Nat Rev Neurosci 11:114-26. 2010....
The impact of post-learning sleep vs. wakefulness on recognition memory for faces with different facial expressionsUllrich Wagner
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Neurobiol Learn Mem 87:679-87. 2007..Results suggest that face recognition, despite its dependence on specialized brain systems, nevertheless relies on the general neural mechanisms of sleep-associated memory consolidation...
Sleep in children improves memory performance on declarative but not procedural tasksInes Wilhelm
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck 23538, Germany
Learn Mem 15:373-7. 2008..However, opposite to adults, children showed smaller improvement in finger-tapping skill across retention sleep than wakefulness, indicating that sleep-dependent procedural memory consolidation depends on developmental stage...
Growth hormone-releasing hormone facilitates hypoglycemia-induced release of cortisolBoris Perras
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Regul Pept 110:85-91. 2002..e. hypothalamic) level as suggested by restriction of the effect to the hypoglycemia-induced cortisol release with no effects after pituitary stimulation with CRH/vasopressin...
Preserved inhibitory effect of recurrent hypoglycaemia on the male gonadotrophic axisKerstin M Oltmanns
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Leubeck, Luebeck, Germany
Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 62:217-22. 2005..As counterregulatory stress hormone release is attenuated during recurrent hypoglycaemia, we questioned whether the gonadotrophic axis and PRL adapt similarly...
Signs of REM sleep dependent enhancement of implicit face memory: a repetition priming studyUllrich Wagner
Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bamberg, Markusplatz 3, D 96045 Bamberg, Germany
Biol Psychol 62:197-210. 2003..Together, these findings indicate that implicit face memories particularly benefit from REM sleep associated brain mechanisms...
Hypoxia causes glucose intolerance in humansKerstin M Oltmanns
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 169:1231-7. 2004..9) despite clear differences in stress hormonal responses. Hypoxia acutely causes glucose intolerance. One of the factors mediating this effect could be an elevated release of epinephrine...
Modulation of hunger by plasma glucose and metforminBernd Schultes
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, D 23538 Luebeck, Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 88:1133-41. 2003..Metformin attenuates hypoglycemia-induced hunger, but does not appear to influence posthypoglycemic food intake...
Sleep's function in the spontaneous recovery and consolidation of memoriesSpyridon Drosopoulos
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
J Exp Psychol Gen 136:169-83. 2007..In combination, the results indicate that the benefit of sleep for declarative memory consolidation is greater for weaker associations, regardless of whether weak associations result from retroactive interference or poor encoding...
Sleep enforces the temporal order in memorySpyridon Drosopoulos
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
PLoS ONE 2:e376. 2007..To address this issue we tested the influence of sleep on the strength of forward and backward associations in word-triplets...
Bifrontal transcranial direct current stimulation slows reaction time in a working memory taskLisa Marshall
University of Lubeck, Department of Neuroendocrinology H23a, Ratzeburger Allee 160, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
BMC Neurosci 6:23. 2005....
Acute hypoxia decreases plasma VEGF concentration in healthy humansKerstin M Oltmanns
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 290:E434-9. 2006..Contrary to in vitro studies, in healthy humans hypoxia decreases plasma VEGF concentration, suggesting that systemic VEGF concentration may be differently regulated than the expression on cellular basis...
Visual-procedural memory consolidation during sleep blocked by glutamatergic receptor antagonistsSteffen Gais
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
J Neurosci 28:5513-8. 2008..An off-line activation of glutamatergic synapses therefore seems to play a critical part in the consolidation of plastic changes in the visual cortex...
Persistent suppression of resting energy expenditure after acute hypoxiaKerstin M Oltmanns
Department of Psychiatry, University of Luebeck, 23538 Luebeck, Germany
Metabolism 55:669-75. 2006..2). Our data demonstrate that the REE decrease persists 150 minutes after acute hypoxia, indicating an adaptation of energy metabolism. This should be valued as an additive pathogenic factor in diseases with disturbed energy metabolism...
Hippocampus whispering in deep sleep to prefrontal cortex--for good memories?Matthias Mölle
Department of Neuroendocrinology, University of Lubeck, Ratzeburger Allee 160, Haus 23a, 23538 Lubeck, Germany
Neuron 61:496-8. 2009..e., a time window that allows for synaptic plastic changes in the neocortical cells. These observations corroborate evidence for a hippocampo-to-neocortical transfer of memories taking place during SWS...
Brief sleep after learning keeps emotional memories alive for yearsUllrich Wagner
Department of Neuroendocrinology, Medical University of Lubeck, Lubeck, Germany
Biol Psychiatry 60:788-90. 2006....
Cortisol correlates with metabolic disturbances in a population study of type 2 diabetic patientsKerstin M Oltmanns
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Germany
Eur J Endocrinol 154:325-31. 2006..We sought to assess the relationship between diabetes-associated metabolic disturbances and cortisol concentrations in patients with type 2 diabetes...
Acute and prolonged effects of insulin-induced hypoglycemia on the pituitary-thyroid axis in humansBernd Schultes
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Metabolism 51:1370-4. 2002..The pattern of changes suggests that hypoglycemia exerts its influence primarily at a central, ie, pituitary and/or hypothalamic, site of the axis...
Awakening and counterregulatory response to hypoglycemia during early and late sleepKamila Jauch Chara
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Diabetes 56:1938-42. 2007..Here, we investigated whether awakening and counterregulatory responses differ between early and late sleep...
Hypoglycemia during sleep impairs consolidation of declarative memory in type 1 diabetic and healthy humansKamila Jauch Chara
Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Diabetes Care 30:2040-5. 2007..Patients with type 1 diabetes frequently experience hypoglycemic episodes during sleep. We investigated whether short-lasting hypoglycemia during early nocturnal sleep affects the sleep-associated consolidation of declarative memories...
Short-term treatment with metformin decreases serum leptin concentration without affecting body weight and body fat content in normal-weight healthy menBernd Fruehwald-Schultes
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Metabolism 51:531-6. 2002..1). Data indicate that metformin decreases the serum leptin concentration even without affecting body weight and body composition in normal-weight men...
Vascular endothelial growth factor: a novel endocrine defensive response to hypoglycemiaDorle Dantz
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany D-23538
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87:835-40. 2002..569; P = 0.021). Findings show that acute hypoglycemia is accompanied by a brisk increase in circulating VEGF concentration and that VEGF could mediate rapid adaptation of the brain to neuroglycopenia...
Sleep loss alters basal metabolic hormone secretion and modulates the dynamic counterregulatory response to hypoglycemiaSebastian M Schmid
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Luebeck, Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 92:3044-51. 2007..Sleep loss has immediate effects on metabolic function that in the long run may contribute to the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes...
Changes in blood pressure and plasma catecholamine levels during prolonged hyperinsulinemiaWerner Kern
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, D-23538 Luebeck, Germany
Metabolism 54:391-6. 2005....
Is the cortisol awakening rise a response to awakening?Ines Wilhelm
Department of Psychobiology, University of Trier, Johanniterufer 15, 54290 Trier, Germany
Psychoneuroendocrinology 32:358-66. 2007..Although the cortisol awakening response is modulated by circadian influences, it primarily reflects phasic psychophysiological processes specific to the sleep-wake transition...
Defective awakening response to nocturnal hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitusBernd Schultes
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
PLoS Med 4:e69. 2007..Whether hypoglycemia normally provokes awakening from sleep in individuals who do not have diabetes, and whether this awakening response is impaired in T1DM patients, is unknown...
Hormonal, subjective, and neurocognitive responses to brief hypoglycemia in postmenopausal women and age-matched men with type 2 diabetes mellitusJan Phillip Bremer
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, D-23538 Luebeck, Germany
Metabolism 55:331-8. 2006..Therefore, our results cannot be generalized to female patients with type 2 diabetes who are premenopausal or on hormone replacement therapy, that is, conditions characterized by increased blood estrogen levels...
Elevated sleep spindle density after learning or after retrieval in ratsOxana Eschenko
Department of Neuromodulation, Neuroplasticity, and Cognition, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, , , 75005 Paris, France
J Neurosci 26:12914-20. 2006....
Elevated resting and exercise-induced cortisol levels after mineralocorticoid receptor blockade with canrenoate in healthy humansPeter Wellhoener
Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, D 23538 Luebeck, Germany
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:5048-52. 2004..The undiminished concentration of ACTH in the presence of elevated cortisol levels suggests that blockade of MR shifts the set point for cortisol feedback inhibition of the HPA axis toward higher cortisol levels...
Developmental differences in sleep's role for implicit off-line learning: comparing children with adultsStefan Fischer
Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
J Cogn Neurosci 19:214-27. 2007..We speculate that the overnight decrease of implicit knowledge in children reflects a preferential effect of sleep toward the enhancement of explicit aspects of task performance that interferes with implicit performance gains...
Differences between nighttime and daytime hypoglycemia counterregulation in healthy humansVolker Merl
Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany
Metabolism 53:894-8. 2004....
