Enkephalin-like immunoreactivity in Drosophila melanogaster.

abstract：:We studied head-injured patients assessed after admission to the hospital according to the Glasgow coma scale (3-8 points). All of them underwent surgical procedure after neuroradiological examination. Due to therapeutic problems, some of these patients had lumbar puncture on the fourth day following surgery. The cont...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Stachura Z,Obuchowicz E,Herman ZS

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently documented the expression of preprothyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) gene in murine, human and rat testis. Moreover, we have localized TRH to rat Leydig cells immunohistochemically, and found that both prepro TRH mRNA and TRH levels are developmentally regulated in the rat testis. To investigate the...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Satoh T,Feng P,Kim UJ,Wilber JF

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the orexinergic pathway from the lateral hypothalamus (LHA) to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and its regulation on the palatable food intake. METHODS:Fluorescent gold retrograde tracing combined with fluoro-immunohistochemical staining were used to observe the projection of orexinergic neurons from ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Liu X,Gao S,Zhang N,Jin T,Sun X,Luan X,Xu L,Guo F

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrathecal administration of VIP to the thoracic spinal cord in the urethane anaesthetized rat provoked a dose-dependent increase in heart rate without any change in arterial pressure. The cardioacceleration observed following administration of 6.5 nmol of VIP at the T9 level (n = 8) occurred within 1-2 min of admini...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Rochford J,Henry JL

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical and experimental evidence have demonstrated that, use of alcohol during pregnancy can interrupt brain development. Alcohol-induced neurocognitive deficits in offspring's are involved with activation of oxidative-inflammatory cascade joined with extensive apoptotic neurodegeneration in different brain regions ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Toosi A,Shajiee H,Khaksari M,Vaezi G,Hojati V

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine-regulated and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is a neuropeptide with reported neuroprotective effects in ischemic cerebral injury. However, its mechanism has not yet been elucidated. Herein, we investigated the role and mechanism of CART in synaptic plasticity in neurons after ischemic cerebral stroke....

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Zhang Z,Cao X,Bao X,Zhang Y,Xu Y,Sha D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is a global public health problem. Orexin and endocannabinoid signaling in the hypothalamus have been shown to regulate feeding and are promising molecular targets for obesity treatment. In this study, we attempted to analyze effects of orexin-A and endocannabinoid signaling modulation in the arcuate nucleus (...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Yang D,Xu L,Guo F,Sun X,Zhang D,Wang M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The orally active, α-hemoglobin derived hemopressin (PVNFKFLSH, Hp(1-9)) and its truncated (PVNFKFL, Hp(1-7) and PVNFKF, Hp(1-6)) and extended ((R)VDPVNFKFLSH, VD-Hp(1-9) and RVD-Hp(1-9)) derivatives have been postulated to be the endogenous peptide ligands of the cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1). In an attempt to cr...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Dvorácskó S,Tömböly C,Berkecz R,Keresztes A

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cholecystokinin and its analogs generate anxiety in humans and measurable anxiety-like behaviors in rats. Cholecystokinin receptor blockers have been reported to have variable effects in the treatment of anxiety disorders. We demonstrated that intracerebroventricular administration of Cholecystokinin-antisens...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Cohen H,Matar MA,Buriakovsky I,Zeev K,Kotler M,Bourin M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Third Galanin Symposium presented many different and exciting results on galanin research reflecting a major progress since the previous symposium in 1998. A major impression was the many possible relationships of galaninergic mechanisms to important brain functions such as development, cognition and ageing as wel...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Hökfelt T

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alarin is a newly identified member of the galanin family of neuropeptides that includes galanin-like peptide (GALP) and galanin. Alarin was discovered as an alternate transcript of the GALP gene in neuroblastoma cells, and subsequently alarin mRNA was detected in the brain of rodents. GALP and galanin are important c...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Van Der Kolk N,Madison FN,Mohr M,Eberhard N,Kofler B,Fraley GS

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superfusion of the dorsal surface of the septum with artificial cerebrospinal fluid containing 10(-10) M [Arg8]-vasopressin (VP) significantly increased the negative (N) wave in field potentials (FPs) elicited in the lateral septum (LS) of rats by stimulation of the fimbria-fornix. A similar increase in the FPs negati...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Urban IJ,De Wied D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of sulphated cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8S) on free intracellular calcium concentration, phosphatidylinositol metabolism, and protein phosphorylation in C6 cells, a rat glioma cell line which was shown to express CCKB type receptors. Increase in [Ca2+]i by both influx across the cell m...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Kaufmann R,Schöneberg T,Lindschau C,Haller H,Ott T

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desensitization is induced by the repeated administration of high doses of substance P (SP) or hemokinin-1 (HK-1). However, little information is available about the mechanisms involved in the induction of desensitization by these peptides. Thus, to characterize this desensitization, we examined the dose-dependent eff...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Naono R,Nakayama T,Ikeda T,Matsusima O,Nishimori T

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the nature of the cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity (CCKLI) in the dorsal horn of the rat spinal cord. Indeed, using the same antiserum, no variation of radioimmunoassayable CCKLI in the dorsal horn of rats treated neonatally with capsaicin could be seen, whereas the density of immunoreacti...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Zouaoui D,Benoliel JJ,Conrath M,Cesselin F

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lumbar disc herniation is a common cause of radicular pain, but the mechanism remains ambiguous and the treatment stays unsatisfied. Many studies revealed a traditional Chinese medicine puerarin may moderate chronic pain from diabetes and nerve injury. Thus far, the role and mechanism of puerarin in radicular pain is ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Zhong Y,Huang YL,Hu YM,Zhu LR,Zhao YS

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the influence of acute exposure of gastric mucosa to the sensory neurotoxin capsaicin on basal gastric acid secretion and on secretion induced by 2-deoxy-D-glucose or histamine in conscious dogs with gastric fistulae has been investigated. Under basal conditions intragastric capsaicin (160 microM, 50 ml ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Soldani G,Mengozzi G,Intorre L,Pacini F,Evangelista S

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats anaesthetized with urethane single unit activity was extracellularly recorded in the neostriatum, and several drugs were microiontophoretically ejected. Separate administration of the sulfated octapeptide cholecystokinin (CCK-8S), serotonin (5-HT) or 8-OH-DPAT (a 5-HT(1A/7) receptor agonist) predominantly indu...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Wilms K,Vierig G,Davidowa H

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During neonatal development exogenous oxytocin increases ERalpha immunoreactivity in the hypothalamus of female prairie voles. The purpose of this study was to determine if the increase in ERalpha is associated with an increase in ERalpha mRNA expression and to determine if the effect is specific to ER subtype or if o...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Pournajafi-Nazarloo H,Carr MS,Papademeteriou E,Schmidt JV,Cushing BS

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have measured cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neuropeptide Y-like immunoreactivity (NPY-LI) and somatostatin-like immunoreactivity (SLI) in control subjects and in patients with various neurologic disorders. We observed a significant reduction in CSF SLI in control subjects over 60 years of age, compared with the younger...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Maeda K,Yasuda M,Kaneda H,Maeda S,Yamadori A

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative roles of hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing-hormone (CRH) and vasopressin (AVP) as mediators of the stimulant effect of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and peptide histidine isoleucine (PHI) on ACTH and corticosterone (CORT) secretion, were examined using receptor blockade of endogenous CRH and AVP....

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Alexander LD,Sander LD

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：:The neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor interacts with peptides that belong to the tachykinin family. NK-1 is inducible in bone marrow (BM) stroma. In neural cells, its expression is high to constitutive. Screening of three cDNA libraries indicated that this different in NK-1 expression in neural and BM cells could not be ex...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Bandari PS,Qian J,Yehia G,Seegopaul HP,Harrison JS,Gascon P,Fernandes H,Rameshwar P

更新日期：2002-02-01 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 anatomical distribution of Substance P (SP) has been investigated since the development of antibodies against it in the 1970s. Although initial studies were performed with antibodies that also recognised the other endogenous neurokinins, most of the initial descriptions are surprisingly still valid today. In this ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Ribeiro-da-Silva A,Hökfelt T

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial dysautonomia (FD) patients have diminished sensory C-fibers. Calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) is a widely distributed neuropeptide and prominent neurotransmitter in C-fibers. We show that plasma CGRP levels measured by radioimmunoassay is significantly lower in 51 FD patients compared to controls (P<0.0...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Maayan C,Becker Y,Gesundheit B,Girgis SI

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide and vasoactive intestinal peptide belong to the same neuropeptide family. Both peptides are present in nerve fibers in the gastric wall and are thought to be involved in the regulation of inflammatory processes. Experimental ulcers were induced in the rat gastric mucosa b...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Mei Q,Sundler F

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the hot plate test the intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) injection of oxytocin produced a significant decrease in nociception, starting from the dose of 1 microgram/rat. A comparable effect was obtained with 10-200 times higher intraperitoneal (i.p.) doses. The i.c.v. injection of the oxytocin antagonist d(CH2)5-Tyr...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Arletti R,Benelli A,Bertolini A

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:We have used [3H]Senktide, a selective Neurokinin B receptor ligand, for the characterization of NK-3 receptors in rat and guinea pig CNS membranes. Scatchard analysis of saturation binding studies in cerebral cortex membranes indicated that this ligand bound to a single site with apparent high affinity (KD = 4.6 +/- ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Renzetti AR,Barsacchi P,Criscuoli M,Lucacchini A

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00