Analysis of conserved residues of the human puromycin-sensitive aminopeptidase.

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：:The involvement of spinal opioid receptors and spinal monoaminergic systems, in the antinociceptive effect of intrathecal (IT) salmon calcitonin, has been evaluated by means of the hot plate test, in the rat. Intrathecal pretreatment with 40 micrograms MR 1452 and 40 micrograms ICI 154,129, purported selective antagon...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Candeletti S,Romualdi P,Spadaro C,Spampinato S,Ferri S

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Lactotensin (beta-LT) is a bioactive peptide derived from bovine milk beta-lactoglobulin and is a natural ligand for neurotensin receptors. We examined the effect of beta-LT on restraint stress and fear memory in mice. Mice subjected to acute restraint stress exhibited a decreased number of head-dips and increase...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Yamauchi R,Wada E,Yamada D,Yoshikawa M,Wada K

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin has been proposed as a regulatory peptide of nutrient entry and fuel homeostasis because of its ability to inhibit the release of substances involved in food digestion and metabolism. The aim of the study was to evaluate the somatostatin response to a test meal in type I diabetics at the clinical onset of...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Uccioli L,Ghirlanda G,Cotroneo P,Bianchini G,Manto A,Solini A,Annese V,Greco AV

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tardive dyskinesia, a clinical syndrome, is one of the major side effects of protracted treatment with neuroleptics in schizophrenic patients. Functional supersensitivity of striatal dopamine receptors is believed to contribute to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia. In a rodent model of neurolept...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rajakumar G,Naas F,Johnson RL,Chiu S,Yu KL,Mishra RK

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motilin is a regulatory polypeptide of 22 amino acid residues and orginates in motilin cells scattered in the duodenal epithelium of most mammals and chickens. Motilin is released into the general circulation at about 100-min intervals during the interdigestive state and is the most important factor in controlling the...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Itoh Z

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid-like immunoreactive material was extracted from the pituitary and brain of the Spiny Dogfish Shark Squalus acanthias. The immunoreactive material in the pituitary extracts was purified to apparent homogeneity by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography and subsequently characterized by amino acid an...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Lorenz RG,Tyler AN,Faull KF,Makk G,Barchas JD,Evans CJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apelin, a newly identified bioactive adipokine, has been found to play important roles in multiple diseases, including diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases with unclear molecular mechanisms. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of apelin on endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress in the pancreas ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Chen H,Zheng C,Zhang X,Li J,Li J,Zheng L,Huang K

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One major cause for discrepancies in results from animal experimental studies is the use of different animal strains and suppliers. We have previously reported that Wistar rats from five different suppliers display profound differences in ethanol intake and behavior. One of the neurobiological processes that could be ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Palm S,Roman E,Nylander I

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nociceptin/orphanin FQ (NC), the endogenous ligand of the opioid receptor-like1 (ORL1) receptor, has been reported to stimulate feeding in rats. The present article reviews the studies so far published on the effect of NC on food intake and reports new findings concerning the sensitivity of brain regions to the hyperp...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Polidori C,de Caro G,Massi M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuroendocrine and behavioral effects of Tyr-D-Ala-Gly-Phe-D-Nle-Arg-Phe (DADN), a more stable derivative of the endogenous opiate Met-enkephalin related peptide Met(5)-enkephalin-Arg(6)-Phe(7) were investigated in mice. The behavioral experiments consisted of monitoring the horizontal (square crossing) and vertic...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Csabafi K,Jászberényi M,Bagosi Z,Tóth G,Wollemann M,Telegdy G

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute treatment of rats with haloperidol results in a rapid and transient increase in striatal c-fos mRNA and Fos immunoreactivity. The induction of immediate early genes by haloperidol may be involved in the development of extrapyramidal side effects. L-Prolyl-L-leucyl-glycinamide (PLG, or MIF-1) has been observed to...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ott MC,Costain WJ,Mishra RK,Johnson RL

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effects of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha on the expression and functionality of adrenomedullin (AM) receptors in cultured human coronary artery smooth muscle cells. Analysis of real-time quantitative polymerase chain reactions showed that these cells abundantly express two AM receptors comprised of...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Nagoshi Y,Kuwasako K,Cao YN,Imamura T,Kitamura K,Eto T

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dipeptide cyclo-[His-Pro] (CHP), known to participate in the appetite behavior and food intake control, have been investigated using PC12 cells in culture as model system. We found that only in the presence of experimental conditions that cause cellular stress the cyclic dipeptide affect cellular prolif...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Minelli A,Bellezza I,Grottelli S,Pinnen F,Brunetti L,Vacca M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the epileptic brain, hippocampal dentate granule cells become synaptically interconnected through the sprouting of mossy fibers. This new circuitry is expected to facilitate epileptiform discharge. Prolonged seizures induce the long-lasting neoexpression of neuropeptide Y (NPY) in mossy fibers. NPY is released spon...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Nadler JV,Tu B,Timofeeva O,Jiao Y,Herzog H

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review is part of a special issue dedicated to Opioid addiction, and examines the influential role of opioid peptides, opioid receptors and opiate drugs in mediating food intake and body weight control in rodents. This review postulates that opioid mediation of food intake was an example of "positive addictive" p...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bodnar RJ

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High affinity 125I-angiotensin II (Ang II) binding sites were characterized in the canine pancreas. Total binding increased with protein concentration and equilibrium was reached within 60-90 min at 22 degrees C. Specific binding was saturable and averaged 70% of total. Scatchard analysis of binding yielded a KD of 0....

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Chappell MC,Diz DI,Jacobsen DW

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A peptide designated cicerarin, with an N-terminal amino acid sequence VKSTGRADDDLAVKTKYLPP dissimilar from known proteins and peptides and a molecular mass of 8kDa, was isolated from seeds of the green chickpea Cicer arietinum cv green chickpea. Cicerarin was isolated with a procedure that involved ion exchange chrom...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Chu KT,Liu KH,Ng TB

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin system has been implicated in a multitude of physiological pathways including obesity, satiety, energy homeostasis, sexual behavior, pigmentation, sodium regulation, hypertension, and many others. Based upon studies of the endogenous melanocortin receptor agonists at the cloned human melanocortin rece...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Joseph CG,Yao H,Scott JW,Sorensen NB,Marnane RN,Mountjoy KG,Haskell-Luevano C

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The C-terminus of the transcription factor p53 seems to play an important role by controlling the specific DNA-binding activity, which is directly associated with sensing damaged DNA. Another region located in the N-terminus of the protein has also been shown to regulate the DNA-binding activity of the protein. This a...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Portefaix JM,Rio MD,Granier C,Roquet F,Pau B,Navarro-Teulon I

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trefoil factor family (TFF) 1, 2, and 3 is a mucin-associated protein involved in the maintenance of mucosal barrier and restitution of lining epithelial cells. In this study, the expression of TFF1, 2, and 3 and MUC mucins were examined immunohistochemically in hepatolithiasis and control livers. The expression of TF...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Sasaki M,Ikeda H,Ohira S,Ishikawa A,Nakanuma Y

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that hypoxia activates corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) and the expression of its type-1 receptor (CRHR1) and induces disorders of the brain-endocrine-immune network. p53 is activated by hypoxia and involved in tumorigenesis and apoptosis. Whether CRHR1 regulates p53 transactivation t...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Zhao Y,Wang MY,Hao K,Chen XQ,Du JZ

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most small peptide hormones and neurotransmitters are highly flexible, conformationally labile molecules in aqueous and other environments. Thus efforts to determine the relationships between conformational properties of these peptides in aqueous and other solvents and their biological activities at membrane receptors...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Hruby VJ,Mosberg HI

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endomorphin 1 (EM-1) and EM-2 have been widely reported in the cells of the central nervous system (CNS) but limited research has been done regarding their distribution in the peripheral system. The occurrence of EM-1 and -2 in the spleen as measured by RIA and their ability to mediate immune function imply a role for...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Seale JV,Jessop DS,Harbuz MS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cone snails have evolved an assortment of venom peptides as an evolutionary strategy for rapid prey immobilization and defence. Earlier studies estimated approximately 100 conopeptides per species. In this study we optimized liquid chromatography and electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for the detection of conop...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Davis J,Jones A,Lewis RJ

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have developed a semi-intact preparation-consisting of an isolated oviduct with abdominal ganglia VII and VIII intact and attached-with which to characterize the effects on oviduct contraction, of peptides that are bath applied to CNS tissues. The work presented here offers a qualitative analysis of the central eff...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Kwok R,Orchard I

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GIP receptor knockout mice were shown to be protected from the development of obesity on a high fat diet, suggesting a role of GIP in the development of obesity. In our study we aimed to test the hypothesis if excess of GIP could accelerate development of obesity and to identify GIP gene targets in adipose tissue. The...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Szalowska E,Meijer K,Kloosterhuis N,Razaee F,Priebe M,Vonk RJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report herein the isolation and characterization of a novel glycine-rich antimicrobial peptide purified from the larvae of Drosophila virilis. A range of chromatographic methods was used for isolation and its antibacterial activity against Bacillus subtilis was employed to screen for the most active fractions. The ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Lu J,Chen ZW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that painful tissue injury evokes an increase in dynorphin in spinal neurons. It is not known, however, whether dynorphinergic systems respond similarly to the pain that accompanies peripheral neuropathy. Radioimmunoassays and immunocytochemistry were used to evaluate changes in dynorphin A(1-8) in the spi...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Kajander KC,Sahara Y,Iadarola MJ,Bennett GJ

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obestatin is a second peptide derived from the preproghrelin polypeptide. It was originally thought to have anorexigenic effects, thereby functioning as an antagonist of ghrelin. However, this has been a subject of debate ever since. Since acylated ghrelin strongly induces insulin resistance, it could be hypothesized ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Kiewiet RM,Gauna C,van Aken MO,van de Zande B,van der Lely AJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00