Effect of loxiglumide (CR 1505) on CCK-induced contractions and 3H-acetylcholine release from guinea-pig gallbladder.

abstract：:To study the effect of septicaemia, the temporal changes in tissue adrenomedullin (AM) and preproAM mRNA levels were studied in the heart and blood vessels after lipopolysaccharide (LPS) injection. Radioimmunoassay and solution hybridization-RNase protection assays were used to follow the changes in AM and its mRNA le...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Li YY,Cheung BM,Wong LY,Hwang IS,Kumana CR,Tang F

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) injected into either the ventral tegmental area (VTA) or the nucleus accumbens on dopamine and its metabolite DOPAC and CCK-immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens were studied. Measurements were made 1, 3 and 6 weeks after the lesion in both the anterior and posterior part ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Igarashi Y,Wiegant VM,Van Ree JM

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germline ablation of VGF, a secreted neuronal, neuroendocrine, and endocrine peptide precursor, results in lean, hypermetabolic, and infertile adult mice that are resistant to diet-, lesion-, and genetically-induced obesity and diabetes (Hahm et al., 1999, 2002). To assess whether this phenotype is predominantly drive...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Jiang C,Lin WJ,Sadahiro M,Shin AC,Buettner C,Salton SR

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antinociceptive effect of intrathecally (i.t.) administered protease inhibitors was tested against capsaicin (800 ng) injected into the dorsal surface of a hindpaw. Both p-hydroxymercuribenzoate (2-8 nmol), a cysteine protease inhibitor, and phosphoramidon (1-4 nmol), an endopeptidase 24.11 inhibitor in the presen...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Tan-No K,Taira A,Inoue M,Ohshima K,Sakurada T,Sakurada C,Nylander I,Demuth HU,Silberring J,Terenius L,Tadano T,Kisara K

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid extracts from mouse Neuroblastoma x rat Glioma hybrid cells have been purified by means of Sep-Pak C-18 and fractionated by high performance liquid chromatography. Each fraction has been submitted to a sensitive beta-endorphin radioimmunoassay and an immunoreactivity peak at camel beta-endorphin retention time wa...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Di Marzo V,Etienne A,Marino G,Morris HR,Palmisano A

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were performed to determine whether the renal nerve mediates the renin release induced by intracerebroventricular administration of angiotensin II (ANG II), bradykinin (BK), leucine-enkephalin (Leu-ENK) and neurotensin (NT). In sham-operated rats, both ANG II and NT suppressed plasma renin activity (PRA), ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Iwata T,Hiwada K,Kokubu T

更新日期：1985-09-01 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：:Pheochromocytoma (PC-12) cells exposed to nerve growth factor (NGF) acquire a sympathetic neuron-like phenotype. This NGF-response is blocked by methylation inhibitors and can be mimicked by the farnesylated methylated small GTP-binding protein p21ras. The implicated involvement of prenylation, methylation and a small...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Haklai R,Lerner S,Kloog Y

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP-27) was incubated in a tyrosine hydroxylase (TyrOH) assay with a homogenate preparation of the nucleus accumbens of the rat. TyrOH activity was determined in vitro by measuring the production of L-dopa with HPLC-ECD. Only in the presence of adenosine nucleotide...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Moser A,Scholz J,Gänsle A

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic stress induces the activation of hippocampal microglia, which produces many inflammatory mediators and mediates the occurrence of depression. Two phenotypes of microglia polarization, the classical M1 and alternative M2, play important regulatory roles in neuroinflammation and are involved in the occurrence an...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Zhou S,Chen S,Xie W,Guo X,Zhao J

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on the physiological functions of neuropeptide FF; NPFF, a morphine modulating octapeptide in avians is lacking. Thus, we designed a study to investigate the effects of central NPFF with particular emphasis on appetite-related processes. Cobb-500 chicks were intracerebroventricularly (ICV) injected with 0,...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Cline MA,Nandar W,Rogers JO

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

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 developed an extraction method and radioimmunoassay for the measurement of interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) in rat tissues, using an antibody specific for IL-1 beta, IL-1 beta was detected in the spleen and thymus of control rats. Adrenalectomy (ADX) had no effect upon control levels of IL-1 beta. In animals wit...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Jessop DS,Chowdrey HS,Lightman SL

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a 36 amino acid peptide, which among others, plays a pivotal role in stress response. Although previous studies confirmed that NPY release is increased by stress in several species, the exact mechanism of the stress-induced NPY release has not been elucidated yet. In the present study, we exami...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Ko L,Rotoli G,Grignol G,Hu W,Merchenthaler I,Dudas B

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of transgenic mice overexpressing GH and GHR-KO mice with GH resistance provided novel animal models for study of the somatotropic axis and for identifying GH actions that may be relevant to its current and contemplated use in medicine and agriculture. Studies of phenotypic characteristics of these animals...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Bartke A,Chandrashekar V,Bailey B,Zaczek D,Turyn D

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tetra-peptide FMRF-NH(2) is a cardioexcitatory peptide in the clam. Using the antibody against this peptide, FMRF-NH(2)-like immunoreactive material was detected in mammalian CNS. Subsequently, mammalian FMRF-NH(2) immunoreactive peptides were isolated from bovine brain and characterized to be FLFQPQRF-NH(2) (NPFF...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Yang HY,Tao T,Iadarola MJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Beta-fluoro-6-desoxy-oxymorphone (FOXY) is a fluorinated derivative of oxymorphone originally developed as a potential PET scanning ligand. Preliminary work (Rothman et al., Neuropeptides 4: 311-317, 1984) demonstrated that [3H]FOXY selectively labeled mu opioid binding sites with low levels of nonspecific binding. ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Rothman RB,Bykov V,Rice KC,Jacobson AE,Kooper GN,Bowen WD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is the predominant genetic cause of obesity in humans and is associated with several behavioural phenotypes such as altered motoric function, reduced activity, and learning disabilities. It can include mood instability and, in some cases, psychotic episodes. Recently, the Snord116 gene has ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Zieba J,Low JK,Purtell L,Qi Y,Campbell L,Herzog H,Karl T

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracerebrally administered dynorphin-B produced not only an antinociceptive response but a motor dysfunction such as "barrel-rolling", circling, jumping or ataxia in mice. These two effects were observed in a same dose range. Both responses were also produced by a nonopioid fragment, des-Tyr-dynorphin-B. Bestati...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Nakazawa T,Ikeda M,Kaneko T,Yamatsu K,Kitagawa K,Kiso Y

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin-B (CCK-8) is an octapeptide that was initially described in the gastrointestinal tract. Recent studies have shown that this peptide also has an extensive distribution in the central nervous system, including the cerebellum of the opossum. In addition to the protein, binding sites for CCK-8 also have be...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Bishop GA

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:In previous studies, membranes from chicken gastrointestinal tissues failed to bind appreciable levels of 125I-APP labeled at the C-terminus. In order to address the suggestion that this was due to steric hindrance of the critical C-terminus, N-terminally labeled 125I-APP was utilized in in vitro membrane binding assa...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Adamo ML,Hazelwood RL

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dynorphin 1-8 (DYN 1-8) and Dynorphin B (DYN B) have been immunocytochemically localized to neuronal perikarya throughout the adult rat central nervous system (CNS). In order to determine if any DYN 1-8 and DYN B immunoreactive (DYN-I) cell bodies have long projections, indirect immunofluorescence was used in combinat...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Code RA,Fallon JH

更新日期：1986-08-01 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：: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

abstract：:The level of opioid peptides in several brain areas and in the pituitary was estimated in WAG/Rij rats, which are considered to be a genetic animal model for human absence epilepsy. In comparison with three groups of non-epileptic controls, these epileptic rats had an elevated level of the proenkephalin-derived peptid...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Lasoń W,Przewłocka B,Van Luijtelaar EL,Coenen AM,Przewłocki R

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AtT-20 cells are known to synthesize two molecular weight forms of the prohormone converting enzyme PC1 with molecular masses of 87 and 66 kDa. In this study we have analyzed basal and stimulated secretion of these proteins. Western blot results show that basal secretion medium of cultured AtT-20 cells contained low c...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Vindrola O,Lindberg I

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Omega Conotoxin is a peptide venom of the marine snail Conus geographus which has been postulated as a neural specific calcium channel blocker in several systems. In the present study in rat ileum strips omega-conotoxin GVIA specifically blocked neuronal responses evoked by electrical field stimulation in a dose-depen...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Allescher HD,Willis S,Schusdziarra V,Classen M

更新日期：1989-05-01 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