Bombesin-like peptide is present in duct cells in salivary glands: studies on normal and irradiated animals.

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：OBJECTIVES:Postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO) is a metabolic skeletal disorder with impaired bone density and bone quality in postmenopausal women. The aim of the present study was to investigate the correlation between neuropeptides, bone microstructure and pain threshold in ovariectomized (OVX) rats. METHODS:Female r...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Xie W,Li F,Han Y,Li Z,Xiao J

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:The distribution and modification of the tachykinins Substance P (SP) and neurokinin A (NKA), their precursor beta-preprotachykinins (beta-PPT) and the receptors involved in their activity, NK-1 and NK-2, were studied in trinitrobenzensulphonic acid (TNB) colitis. Rats were intrarectally treated with a 120 mg/ml of TN...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Evangelista S,Tramontana M,Maggi CA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CSF methionine and leucine enkephalins were measured by high performance liquid chromatography and radioimmunoassay in diabetic patients with painful neuropathy (n = 22) and painless neuropathy (n = 5), and non-diabetic subjects with low back pain (n = 11). Wide variations in CSF enkephalin levels were found and they ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Chan AW,Macfarlane IA,Masson EA,Bowsher D,Morley JS,Venn RF

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin (OXT), a nonapeptide hormone of posterior pituitary, reaches the central nervous system from systemic blood circulation with a difficulty because of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The interest has been expressed in the use of the nasal route for delivery of OXT to the brain directly, exploiting the olfactory ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Wang YL,Yuan Y,Yang J,Wang CH,Pan YJ,Lu L,Wu YQ,Wang DX,Lv LX,Li RR,Xue L,Wang XH,Bi JW,Liu XF,Qian YN,Deng ZK,Zhang ZJ,Zhai XH,Zhou XJ,Wang GL,Zhai JX,Liu WY

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation was to determine if chronic activation of kappa-opioid receptor induces development of tolerance and dependence to kappa-opioid agonists on the isolated right atrium of the rat. Tolerance to the kappa-agonist was induced by chronic administration of U-50,488H, a selective kappa-ago...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Milanés MV,Rabadan JV,Laorden ML

更新日期：1997-10-01 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：:A role for beta-endorphin (beta-END) in the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD) is suggested by both animal research and studies examining clinical populations. The major etiological theories of depression include brain regions and neural systems that interact with opioid systems and beta-END. Recent pr...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Hegadoren KM,O'Donnell T,Lanius R,Coupland NJ,Lacaze-Masmonteil N

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of graded amounts of centrally injected [intracerebroventricular, i.c.v.] oxytocin [OXT] have been studied on the steady-state level and pargyline-induced accumulation of serotonin [5-HT] in the hypothalamus, mesencephalon and dorsal hippocampus of rats. OXT only weakly affected the steady-state level of 5...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Schwarzberg H,Kovács GL,Telegdy G

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma levels of ghrelin, an orexigenic peptide, are increased during conditions of chronic starvation, such as in patients with anorexia nervosa. However, it is not known whether such increase can be related to the number of preproghrelin mRNA-expressing cells in the stomach, and if chronic starvation may activate a ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： François M,Barde S,Achamrah N,Breton J,do Rego JC,Coëffier M,Hökfelt T,Déchelotte P,Fetissov SO

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermorphin (Tyr-D-Ala-Phe-Gly-Tyr-Pro-Ser-NH2), a naturally occurring peptide isolated from arboreal frog skin, is endowed with outstanding structural and biological features. It has no structural community with the sequence of mammalian opioid peptides and is a unique example of a D-aminoacid containing peptide which...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Mor A,Delfour A,Amiche M,Sagan S,Nicolas P,Grassi J,Pradelles P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procolipase is secreted as a protein consisting of 101 amino acids. In the intestinal lumen, procolipase is activated by trypsin and cleaves to form the active colipase and the pentapeptide from the amino terminus. This pentapeptide is called enterostatin. Pancreatic procolipase synthesis is stimulated by a high-fat d...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Liu M,Shen L,Tso P

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent surge of scientific interest in 5-hydroxytryptamine3 (5-HT3) receptors can be attributed largely to the rapid increase in the number of potent and selective 5-HT3 receptor antagonists. The availability of a large variety of chemically diverse 5-HT3 compounds allows for a unique opportunity to apply computer...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Peroutka SJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) has been implicated in anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like behaviour as well as seizure-suppressant effects in rodents. Although these effects appear to be predominantly mediated via other NPY receptors (Y1 and/or Y2), several studies have also indicated a role for Y5 receptors. Gene therapy using...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Olesen MV,Christiansen SH,Gøtzsche CR,Holst B,Kokaia M,Woldbye DP

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microchemotaxis chambers were used to investigate whether one aspect of ciliary neurotrophic factor CNTF's role as a lesion factor might be to promote the initial early recruitment of macrophages, which express the signal transducing receptor components, gp130 and LIFRbeta. CNTFRalpha alone, or in combination with CNT...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Kobayashi H,Mizisin AP

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoid deficiency is associated with a decrease of food intake. Orexigenic peptides, neuropeptide Y (NPY) and agouti related protein (AgRP), and the anorexigenic peptide proopiomelanocortin (POMC), expressed in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARC), are regulated by meal-induced signals. Orexigenic neu...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Uchoa ET,Silva LE,de Castro M,Antunes-Rodrigues J,Elias LL

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distributions of four prodynorphin-derived peptides, dynorphin A (1-17), dynorphin A (1-8), dynorphin B, and alpha-neo-endorphin were determined in 10 cortical regions and the striatum of the old world monkey (Macaca nemestrina). alpha-neo-endorphin was the most abundant peptide in both cortex and striatum. The co...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Healy DJ,Meador-Woodruff JH

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxytocin, intraperitoneally injected to 26-month-old male rats 60 min before testing, significantly improved social memory (at doses of 3 and 6 ng/kg) and reduced the duration of immobility in the behavioral despair test (at doses of 50 and 500 micrograms/kg). These results are in agreement with previous data obtained...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Arletti R,Benelli A,Poggioli R,Luppi P,Menozzi B,Bertolini A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral neurons begin to express galanin after axotomy. When neurons in the superior cervical ganglion were axotomized near (about 2 mm) from the ganglion, galanin-like immunoreactivity (IR) was maximal within 72 h. Axotomy of neurons in the middle and inferior cervical ganglion complex (MICG), which could be perfo...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Shadiack AM,Zigmond RE

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise at different intensities is able to induce different physical and psychological statuses of the subjects. The β-endorphin (β-EP) in central nervous system is thought to play an important role in physical exercise. However, its expression patterns and physiological effects in the central nuclei under different...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Xue L,Sun J,Zhu J,Ding Y,Chen S,Ding M,Pei H

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In binding assays with homogenates of the myenteric plexus-longitudinal muscle of the guinea-pig, beta-funaltrexamine is more potent at displacing mu-binding than kappa-binding. Incubation of homogenates with beta-funaltrexamine (100 or 1000 nM) for 30 min at 37 degrees C followed by repeated washing with drug-free Tr...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： McKnight AT,Paterson SJ,Corbett AD,Kosterlitz HW

更新日期：1984-12-01 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：:The aim of the present investigation was to study the effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) on morphine withdrawal-induced behavioral changes and hypothermia in male CFLP mice. Elevated plus maze (EPM) and jump tests were used to assess naloxone-precipitated morphine withdrawal-induced ...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Lipták N,Dochnal R,Babits A,Csabafi K,Szakács J,Tóth G,Szabó G

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：: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：:The neuropeptide galanin is widely expressed in both the central and peripheral nervous systems. However there is limited understanding of how individual galanin receptor (GalR1, 2, and 3) subtypes mediate the physiological activity of galanin in vivo. To address this issue we utilized NAX-5055, a systemically availab...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Flynn SP,White HS

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to further test whether or not psychostimulant drugs activate CART peptide-containing cells in the nucleus accumbens, we examined the fraction of CART positive cells that co-immunostained for c-Fos after administration of saline or cocaine (10 and 25 mg/kg i.p.). There was about a 45% increase in the fraction...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Hubert GW,Kuhar MJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galanin, a 29 residue peptide found in the hypothalamus, causes orexigenic effects in a variety of species. In the present study, we investigated appetite-associated effects of galanin in chicks from lines which have been selected from a common founder population for either low or high body weight. The low line consis...

journal_title：Neuropeptides

authors： Hagen CJ,Newmyer BA,Webster RI,Gilbert ER,Siegel PB,Tachibana T,Cline MA

更新日期：2013-08-01 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