Secondary structure of antisauvagine analogues is important for CRF receptor antagonism: development of antagonists with increased potency and receptor selectivity.

abstract：:Galanin has been shown to be present in substantial quantities in the human and rat genitourinary tract by radioimmunoassay and immunocytochemistry. The highest concentrations measured by radioimmunoassay were found in the human vas deferens, corpus cavernosum and spongiosum and in the vagina and cervix. In man gel ch...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bauer FE,Christofides ND,Hacker GW,Blank MA,Polak JM,Bloom SR

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VIP and secretin control the secretory function of the normal pancreas. We analysed their regulatory functions in a human pancreatic cancer cell line: Capan-1. Saturation binding experiments with 125I-VIP showed the existence of one class of binding sites of very high affinity: KD 6.4 +/- 3.0 X 10(-11) M and a low Bma...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ruellan C,Scemama JL,Clerc P,Fagot-Revurat P,Clemente F,Ribet A

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VIP stimulates adenylate cyclase activity of male and female rat anterior pituitaries and human prolactinomas, while dopamine inhibits the enzyme activity of female rat pituitaries and prolactinomas. A dopamine inhibited cyclase can be detected also in male rats provided the enzyme activity is increased by VIP. The an...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Oliva D,Vallar L,Giannattasio G,Spada A,Nicosia S

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated basal motility and the motor effects of motilin, erythromycin, and prostigmine on segments of rabbit gastrointestinal tract removed from extrinsic neural and vascular pathway and immersed in an oxygenated organ bath. Motility was recorded by means of four strain gauges sutured on the serosal surface of...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Marzio L,Grossi L,Martelli L,Falcucci M,Lapenna D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crude extracts of the marine sponge Geodia corticostylifera from Brazilian Coast have previously shown antibacterial, antifungal, cytotoxic, haemolytic and neurotoxic activities. The present work describes the isolation of the cyclic peptides geodiamolides A, B, H and I (1-4) from G. corticostylifera and their anti-pr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rangel M,Prado MP,Konno K,Naoki H,Freitas JC,Machado-Santelli GM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats with dorsomedial hypothalamic lesions (DMN-L) or sham operations were injected IP with saline or the satiety peptide cholecystokinin (CCK) at 3.0 and 6.0 micrograms/kg at the onset of the dark phase. Food consumption was then measured 15, 30 and 60 min later. Compared to saline baseline intake, CCK suppressed fee...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bellinger LL,Bernardis LL

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the journal Peptides, it is timely to review the functional significance of the bombesin (BB)-like peptides and receptors in the CNS. Over two decades ago we published an article in the journal Peptides demonstrating that BB-like peptides are present in high densities in certa...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Moody TW,Merali Z

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urotensin II (UII) is the most potent vasoconstrictor peptide ever identified. In order to clarify the pathophysiological role of UII in diabetes mellitus, we examined plasma immunoreactive UII levels and urinary excretion of immunoreactive UII in 10 control subjects and 48 patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. The ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Totsune K,Takahashi K,Arihara Z,Sone M,Murakami O,Ito S,Kikuya M,Ohkubo T,Hashimoto J,Imai Y

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunohistochemical studies were conducted on sections of cat hypothalamus in order to determine the distribution of neurons containing alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone and beta-endorphin immunoreactivity. A large number of neurons in the arcuate nucleus were stained after incubation of sections with antisera to e...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Micevych PE,Elde RP

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative receptor autoradiography using Bolton-Hunter iodinated substance P (SP) was used to localize specific sites in the rat hypothalamus. The amount of SP and neurokinin A (NkA) in extracts from discrete areas of the hypothalamus was measured using specific radioimmunoassays. A high density of SP binding sites...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Larsen PJ,Jessop DS,Chowdrey HS,Mikkelsen JD,Lightman SL

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By immunohistochemistry it was found that PHI- and VIP-like immunoreactivity (-IR) occurred in the same autonomic neurons in the upper respiratory tract, tongue and salivary glands with associated ganglia in rat, guinea-pig, cat, pig and man. VIP- and PHI-like immunoreactivity was also found in similar locations in th...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Lundberg JM,Fahrenkrug J,Hökfelt T,Martling CR,Larsson O,Tatemoto K,Anggård A

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A myomodulin peptide has been suggested to mediate the response of the giant glial cells to stimulation of the Leydig interneuron in the central nervous system of the leech Hirudo medicinalis [Eur. J. Neurosci. 11 (1999) 3125]. We have now studied the glial response to the endogenous leech MM peptide (GMGALRL-NH(2), M...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Britz FC,Deitmer JW

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermorphin, injected intracerebroventricularly (ICV) to rats, provokes, like to morphine, an inhibition of intestinal propulsion linearly related to the log of the administered doses (in the range from 0.06 to 0.56 micrograms/rat), but it is 143 times more active than morphine. Naloxone, ICV or IP, antagonizes dermorp...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Parolaro D,Sala M,Crema G,Spazzi L,Cesana R,Gori E

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin is a 28 amino acid peptide, primarily produced by the oxyntic mucosa X/A like neuroendocrine cells in the stomach. It is also found in the small intestine, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, pancreas, heart, adipose tissue, and immune system. In gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) ghrelin release has bee...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Vu JP,Wang HS,Germano PM,Pisegna JR

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferences regarding biosynthesis of LHRH in rats are made from immunocytochemical studies using LHRH antisera with varied and specific binding requirements. Immunoreactive perikarya were observed with antisera that could bind putative large molecular weight precursors of LHRH. No cells were detected with an antiserum...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： King JC,Anthony EL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous (IV) infusions of neurotensin (NT) in anesthetized guinea pigs elicited dose-dependent pressor effects and tachycardia. Both effects were significantly reduced or abolished in guinea pigs given a chronic treatment with the neurotoxin capsaicin. In guinea pig isolated atria NT evoked a positive inotropic an...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bachelard H,St-Pierre S,Rioux F

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide S (NPS), the endogenous ligand of NPS receptor (NPSR), regulates many biological functions, including arousal, anxiety, locomotion and food intake. NPSR mRNA is expressed in several regions of central autonomic network through which the brain controls visceromotor and other responses essential for surviva...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Han RW,Chang M,Peng YL,Qiao LY,Yin XQ,Li W,Wang R

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporins are a family of hydrophobic, C-terminally alpha-amidated antimicrobial peptides that are synthesized in the skins of a wide range of species of frogs belonging to the genus Rana. In the present study, we investigated using RT-PCR the expression of preprotemporin mRNAs in extradermal tissues of Tago's bro...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Iwamuro S,Nakamura M,Ohnuma A,Conlon JM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang II) uptake and transport across monolayers of bovine brain microvessel endothelial cells (BMECs) was demonstrated. Ang II transport was linear up to 2 h, saturable with a K(m) of 1.7 nM, and tended to be polarized with the apical-to-basolateral transport being greater. [3H]Ang II transport was foun...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rose JM,Audus KL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the in vitro and in vivo biological activities of PG-KII (pGlu-Pro-Asn-Pro-Asp-Glu-Phe-Val-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2), a new peptide belonging to the tachykinin family, related to kassinin, isolated and sequenced from extracts of the skin of the Australian myobatrachid frog Pseudophryne güntheri, with those of the w...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Improta G,Broccardo M,Severini C,Erspamer V

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-casein-derived octapeptide RINKKIEK is a noncompetitive inhibitor of soybean lipoxygenase (LOX). To investigate the molecular determinants for the enzyme-peptide interaction, a peptide library containing substitutional analogs of RINKKIEK was prepared by SPOT synthesis and analyzed for interaction with fluore...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Schurink M,van Berkel WJ,Wichers HJ,Boeriu CG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the expressions of the prepro-orexin gene in the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA), the genes of the neuropeptide Y (NPY) and proopiomelanocortin (POMC) in the arcuate nucleus (ARC), the orexin type 1 receptor (OX1R) gene in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH) and the orexin type 2 receptor (OX2R) ge...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Yamamoto Y,Ueta Y,Yamashita H,Asayama K,Shirahata A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While neuropeptides of the allatostatin family inhibit in vitro production of juvenile hormone, which modulates aspects of development and reproduction in the cockroach, Diploptera punctata, they are susceptible to inactivation by peptidases in the hemolymph, gut, and bound to internal tissues. Patterns of peptidase c...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Nachman RJ,Garside CS,Tobe SS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin (CCK) and met-enkephalin (MEK) related peptides have been shown to alter feeding behavior subsequent to their injection into the peripheral circulation or directly into the brains of several species. To evaluate the potential role of endogenous brain pools of these peptides in feeding, groups of sheep ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Scallet AC,Della-Fera MA,Baile CA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of third ventricular (IVT) injection of 25 micrograms of bradykinin (BK) upon plasma levels of LH, FSH, TSH, GH and prolactin were investigated in conscious ovariectomized female rats bearing indwelling jugular cannulae. Some animals were pretreated with bradykinin potentiating factor (BPF). Intravenous ad...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Steele MK,Negro-Vilar A,McCann SM

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothalamic orexin neurons project to many brain areas, including hindbrain structures such as the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) and area postrema (AP), where orexin 1 receptors (OX1Rs) are expressed. Hindbrain administration of orexin-A increases feeding and meal size, and blockade of hindbrain OX1Rs with the ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Williams DL,Coiduras II,Parise EM,Maske CB

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) is a 42 amino acid hormone secreted from intestinal K-cells in response to nutrient ingestion. Despite a recognised physiological role for GIP as an insulin secretagogue to control postprandial blood glucose levels, growing evidence reveals important actions of GIP on adipocytes an...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Irwin N,Gault VA,O'Harte FPM,Flatt PR

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrophage foam cell formation, characterized by cholesterol ester accumulation catalyzed by acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase 1 (ACAT1), is the hallmark of early atherogenesis. We previously demonstrated the suppressive effects of incretins, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic poly...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Tashiro Y,Sato K,Watanabe T,Nohtomi K,Terasaki M,Nagashima M,Hirano T

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the indirect immunofluorescence method, enkephalin-like immunoreactivity was visualized on human fetus spinal cord sections (gestational age from 17 to 25 weeks). Immunolabeled varicose fibers and terminal-like structures were seen through the whole length fetal spinal cord principally in the dorsal gray, in the...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rougeot C,Charnay Y,Dray F,Dubois PM

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urotensin II (UII), first identified from goby urophysis, is a potent vasoactive peptide hormone and an endogenous ligand for an orphan G protein-coupled receptor GPR14, now named urotensin II receptor (UT-R). In addition to its vascular actions, UII has been shown to have mitogenic effects on tumor growth and some re...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Morimoto R,Satoh F,Murakami O,Totsune K,Arai Y,Suzuki T,Sasano H,Ito S,Takahashi K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00