Orexin-A and endocannabinoid signaling regulate glucose-responsive arcuate nucleus neurons and feeding behavior in obese rats.

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that deeply affects patients, their family and society. Although scientists have made intense efforts in seeking the cure for AD, no drug available today is able to stop AD progression. In this context, compounds isolated from animal venom are potenti...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Camargo LC,Campos GAA,Galante P,Biolchi AM,Gonçalves JC,Lopes KS,Mortari MR

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using canine spleen and lung membranes as model systems, we have shown the presence of subtypes of ETB receptors. This classification was done based on the binding profiles of various analogs of ET-1 that have been identified as ETB-selective. Saturation binding experiments performed with [125I] ET-3 and [125I] IRL-12...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Nambi P,Pullen M,Brooks DP,Gellai M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The action of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is mediated by two recently identified receptors, CRFR1 and CRFR2, that differ with respect to their anatomical distribution and pharmacologic ligand-binding properties. Here we show by an analysis of circadian heartbeat interval fluctuations that CRFR2-deficiency in ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Stiedl O,Meyer M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) donors induce delayed headaches in migraineurs. In a corresponding rat model NO donors cause delayed ongoing activity in central trigeminal neurons which process intracranial afferent input. Cellular models indicate that NO may increase the release or production of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CG...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Eberhardt M,Neeb L,Vogel EM,Tiegs G,Reuter U,Messlinger K,Fischer MJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is now unequivocal evidence that the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2(ACE2)-Ang-(1-7)-Mas axis is a key component of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) cascade, which is closely correlated with ischemic insult occurrence. Our previous studies demonstrated that the Ang-(1-7), was an active member of the brain RAS....

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Lu J,Jiang T,Wu L,Gao L,Wang Y,Zhou F,Zhang S,Zhang Y

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative evaluation of octadecaneuropeptide-like immunoreactivity (ODN-Li) was carried out in hippocampus, cortex and cerebellum of group-reared or three month isolated male Wistar rats, whether muricidal or not. ODN-Li was lower in cortex and cerebellum of isolated animals, (mainly in muricidal) than of group-rea...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Miachon S,Tonon MC,Vaudry H,Buda M

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the latency for tail-flick after thermal stimulation we have assessed the effects of alpha-, gamma(1)- and gamma(2)-MSH on nociceptive threshold in the mice. Intracisternal injections of gamma(2)-MSH induced a distinct analgesia, while gamma(1)-MSH in the same doses gave only a minor analgesia. Intracisternal al...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Klusa V,Germane S,Svirskis S,Opmane B,Wikberg JE

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) is a 17-amino acid peptide that binds to the nociceptin receptor (NOP). N/OFQ and NOP receptors are expressed in numerous brain areas. The generation of specific agonists, antagonists and receptor-deficient mice or rats has enabled progress in elucidating the biological functions of N/OF...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Baiula M,Bedini A,Spampinato SM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using field potential recording in the CA1 region of hippocampal slices from rats injected with cysteamine (200 mg/kg, s.c.), changes in activity and plasticity of Schaffer collateral-CA1 pyramidal cell synapses were examined. Extracellular field potential recording prior to and following either theta-pattern primed b...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Rostampour M,Fathollahi Y,Semnanian S,Hajizadeh S,Mirnajafizadeh J,Shafizadeh M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gestational cocaine treatment in rat dams results in decreased oxytocin (OT) levels, up-regulated oxytocin receptor (OTR) binding density and decreased receptor affinity in the whole amygdala, all concomitant with a significant increase in maternal aggression on postpartum day six. Rat dams with no gestational drug tr...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Jarrett TM,McMurray MS,Walker CH,Johns JM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) is a widely expressed neuropeptide system originally discovered in the gut. Both cerebral and peripheral neurons as well as endocrine I-cells in the small intestine process proCCK to tyrosyl-O-sulfated and α-carboxyamidated peptides. Recently, we reported that gut endocrine I-cells also synthetiz...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Agersnap M,Zhang MD,Harkany T,Hökfelt T,Rehfeld JF

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain extracts from 3 to 4 day old final (eighth) instar larvae of Opisina arenosella (Lepidoptera) stimulate amylase release from midgut preparations maintained in vitro. This effect of the brain extract was both time and dose dependent. The brain factor stimulating enzyme release may be a peptide as it is heat stabl...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Harshini S,Reshmi V,Sreekumar S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of analogues of substance P, where the Met11 residue was replaced by Glu(OCH2CH3), Glu(OBzl) and Hse(CH3), were synthesized in order to investigate the effect on agonist activity of modifications at the C-terminal residue. The biological activities in the guinea-pig ileum assay (NK1 receptor) and rat [text sa...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Poulos C,Antoniou M,Patacchini R,Maggi CA,Pegoraro S,Rovero P

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noradrenaline (NA) has been implicated in both increase and reduction of anxiety. Selective destruction of nerve endings of the locus coeruleus projections by DSP-4 has been shown to reduce active behaviour in novel situations by enhancing anxiety. In the present study, DSP-4 (50 mg/kg) treatment reduced locomotor act...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Kask A,Eller M,Oreland L,Harro J

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid extracts of cat adrenal medullae were found to contain neurotensin-like (0.71 +/- 0.21nmol/gm), met-enkephalin-like (11.71 +/- 2.87nmol/gm), leu-enkephalin-like (1.95 +/- 0.11nmol/gm) and somatostatin-like (1.57 +/- 0.63pmol/gm) immunoreactivities. Using isolated retrogradely perfused cat adrenal glands the secre...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Corder R,Mason DF,Perrett D,Lowry PJ,Clement-Jones V,Linton EA,Besser GM,Rees LH

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical tests have demonstrated for the first time the presence of endothelins in the neuroendocrine cells of fish gill. We have sought co-localization of endothelins with serotonin and neuropeptides which are regarded as neuroendocrine markers of pulmonary diffuse neuroendocrine systems in higher vertebra...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Zaccone G,Mauceri A,Fasulo S,Ainis L,Lo Cascio P,Ricca MB

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available data concerning the effect of oxytocin on memory are often inconsistent. In the present study it was found that oxytocin, intracerebroventricularly injected to adult male rats in a dose range of 1 fg-10 ng/rat immediately after a 5-minute encounter with a juvenile, significantly reduces the social investigat...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Benelli A,Bertolini A,Poggioli R,Menozzi B,Basaglia R,Arletti R

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly purified porcine neurophysin-II, prepared from pig posterior pituitary lobe tissue was injected into fifteen rabbits in the preparation of anti-neurophysin sera. All antisera, when used in association with immunohistochemical procedures, gave an immunoreaction in structures of the rat hypothalamo-neurohypophysi...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Watkins WB

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progesterone metabolite, allopregnanolone (AlloP), is a GABAA receptor modulating steroid and is known to have orexigenic and pro-obesity effects. The neurobiological mechanisms underpinning these effects are most likely due to enhanced GABAergic signaling in the lateral arcuate nucleus (ARC) and medial paraventri...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Löfgren M,Holmberg E,Bäckström T,Egecioglu E,Dickson SL

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of somatostatin and a stable analogue, sandostatin (Octreotide), on the responses of spinal cord neurones in vivo was investigated in the rat. Electrical C-fibre stimulation was used as a model of acute nociception and the response to subcutaneous formalin was used as a model of longer term events. Intratheca...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Chapman V,Dickenson AH

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Possible positive reinforcing and aversive effects of intraperitoneally (ip) administered substance P (SP) and its C-terminal heptapeptide analog [pGlu5, MePhe8, Sar9]-SP5-11 (DIME-C7) were investigated in rats. The 'conditioned corral preference and avoidance procedure' was used for assessing positive and negative re...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Hasenöhrl RU,Gerhardt P,Huston JP

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiological basis for the pain of migraine has been the subject of substantial attention and must include activation of elements of the trigeminal innervation of the cranial vessels, the trigeminovascular system. Recently, consideration of trigeminal-evoked neurogenic plasma protein extravasation (PPE) as a...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Knight YE,Edvinsson L,Goadsby PJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The desire of the pharmaceutical industry to obtain more selective agents for the treatment of anxiety with fewer or diminished side effects and a profile consistent with safety during long-term use resulted in a search which has identified the azapirones as a new class of anxiolytics which lack structural or biochemi...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Taylor DP,Moon SL

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats housed individually for 7 days showed a marked decrease in motor activity when tested under intense light conditions in a novel environment as compared to group-housed rats tested under low light conditions. The ACTH analogue ORG 2766 administered into the amygdala decreased the motor activity of group-housed rat...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Wolterink G,Van Ree JM

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we examined whether the mechanisms mediating the induction of grooming behavior by oxytocin (OT) is similar to mechanisms mediating the effects of OT on uterine contractility. Sprague-Dawley strain female rats were injected intracerebroventricularly (ICV) with OT or OT analogues and then were observed f...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Caldwell JD,Hruby VJ,Hill P,Prange AJ Jr,Pedersen CA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) is co-localized with dopamine (DA) in mesolimbic neurons of the CNS and appears to selectively regulate the output of this system. In an attempt to characterize the nature of CCK interactions with mesolimbic DA-containing nerve terminals, we have investigated CCK regulation of [3H]DA overflow fro...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Vickroy TW,Bianchi BR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurokinin A (NKA) and substance P (SP) are often co-localized in small sensory neurons and have been suggested to subserve similar roles. We have now compared tissue levels of NKA and SP in rat cervical dorsal root ganglia with those in the central and peripheral terminations of the same neurons. We found that NKA co...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Bakhle YS,Bell C

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selectivity of a series of opioid peptides towards the mu-, delta- and kappa-opioid receptors mediating differential inhibition of electrically-induced neurotransmitter release from rat brain slices was studied, viz. cortical [3H]noradrenaline release (inhibited via mu-receptors), striatal [3H]dopamine release (in...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Mulder AH,Wardeh G,Hogenboom F,Frankhuyzen AL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enkephalin-immunoreactive neurons have been identified in the central nervous system of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster by immunocytochemical techniques. Analyses of fly extracts by high performance liquid chromatography and radioimmunoassay show a relatively complex pattern of immunoreactive compounds. The most...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Pagés M,Jiménez F,Ferrús A,Peralta E,Ramírez G,Gelpí E

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A human brain aminopeptidase, which hydrolyses low molecular weight enkephalin-containing peptides (ECPs), was purified to apparent homogeneity from the homogenate of human brain. The enzyme purification involved DEAE-cellulose chromatography and preparative polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The purified aminopeptid...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Duarte GI,Souza FG,Bruno JA,Camargo AC,Carvalho KM

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00