Characterization of neurotensin(6-13) from an hepatic fibrolamellar carcinoma.

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to correlate the development of the renin angiotensin system (RAS) in the kidney of the rat with the development of genetic hypertension. Immature (1-week-old) and adult (12-week-old) normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive kidney rats (SHR) were used for quantif...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Correa FM,Viswanathan M,Ciuffo GM,Tsutsumi K,Saavedra JM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of galanin-like immunoreactivity in the brain of the dogfish Scyliorhinus canicula was investigated using the indirect immunofluorescence technique. In the telencephalon, positive cells and fibers were located in the mid-caudal part of the area superficialis basalis, the n. septi caudoventralis and in...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Vallarino M,Feuilloley M,Vandesande F,Vaudry H

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution and chemical properties of compounds with tachykinin-like immunoreactivity (TK-LI) in the spinal cord and brain of lampreys (Lampetra fluviatilis and Ichthyomyzon unicuspis) were investigated by means of immunohistochemistry and various chromatographic methods combined with radioimmunoassay. The distr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Van Dongen PA,Theodorsson-Norheim E,Brodin E,Hökfelt T,Grillner S,Peters A,Cuello AC,Forssmann WG,Reinecke M,Singer EA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) is a potent orexigenic and sleep-promoting neuropeptide in mammals produced predominately by hypothalamic neurons which project to a wide variety of brain areas. Several MCH producing neurons contain MCH as the only neuropeptide, while others comprise cocaine- and amphetamine regula...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Jancsik V,Bene R,Sótonyi P,Zachar G

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nesfatin-1 is well established to reduce food intake upon brain injection in rats, while in mice its anorexigenic action and brain expression are largely unexplored. We characterized the influence of intracerebroventricular (icv) and peripheral (intraperitoneal, ip, subcutaneous, sc) injection of nesfatin-1 on dark ph...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Goebel M,Stengel A,Wang L,Taché Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification to the structure of glucagon has provided a number of glucagon receptor antagonists with possible therapeutic application for diabetes. These novel peptide analogs include desHis(1)Pro(4)Glu(9)-glucagon and desHis(1)Pro(4)Glu(9)(Lys(30)PAL)-glucagon. This study has evaluated the metabolic benefits of once...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： McShane LM,Franklin ZJ,O'Harte FP,Irwin N

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary cells from 14-day-old rats were separated by unit gravity velocity sedimentation, and a highly enriched population of gonadotrophs was established in reaggregate cell culture in serum-free and serum albumin-free defined culture media. The medium conditioned by these aggregates was concentrated, ultrafiltrate...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Tilemans D,Jacobs GF,Andries M,Proost P,Devreese B,Van Damme J,Van Beeumen J,Denef C

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular permeability and endothelial cell damage has been shown to occur in rats subjected to trauma with hemorrhagic-shock. Although the factors responsible for the endothelial cell injury are unknown, it has been hypothesized that toxic factors produced in response to hemorrhagic-shock originate in the gut and are ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Kaiser VL,Sifri ZC,Senthil M,Dikdan GS,Lu Q,Xu DZ,Deitch EA

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptic digestion of bovine hemoglobin at low degree of hydrolysis yields an intermediate peptide fraction exhibiting antibacterial activity against Micrococcus luteus A270, Listeria innocua, Escherichia coli and Salmonella enteritidis after separation by reversed-phase HPLC. From this fraction a pure peptide was isola...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Daoud R,Dubois V,Bors-Dodita L,Nedjar-Arroume N,Krier F,Chihib NE,Mary P,Kouach M,Briand G,Guillochon D

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tachykinins are multifunctional neuropeptides that have been identified in vertebrates as well as invertebrates. The C-terminal FXGXRa-motif constitutes the consensus active core region of invertebrate tachykinins. In Drosophila, two putative G protein-coupled tachykinin receptors have been cloned: DTKR and NKD. This ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Poels J,Verlinden H,Fichna J,Van Loy T,Franssens V,Studzian K,Janecka A,Nachman RJ,Vanden Broeck J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol (ETOH) has been shown to have pronounced effects on reproductive endocrinology in humans as well as laboratory animals. We have studied the effects of ETOH on the hypothalamic-pituitary-luteinizing hormone (LH) axis, using the male rat as an animal model. In order to better understand the method by which ETOH ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Dees WL,Kozlowski GP

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) we investigated the interaction of seven neuropeptides with different characteristics and beta-amyloid (Abeta42) peptide, with membranes containing gangliosides. A wide range of affinities characterized the bindings (K(D) = 10(-3)- 10(-7) M), following the scheme: for GM1, Abeta42...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Valdes-Gonzalez T,Inagawa J,Ido T

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although many studies have demonstrated the action of motilin on migrating motor complex by using human subjects and relatively large animals, the precise physiological mechanisms of motilin remain obscure. One reason for the lack of progress in this research field is that large animals are generally not suitable for ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Tsutsui C,Kajihara K,Yanaka T,Sakata I,Itoh Z,Oda S,Sakai T

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular uptake of [125I] labelled DSIP at the luminal interface of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) was studied in the ipsilateral perfused in situ guinea pig forebrain. Regional unidirectional transfer constants (Kin) calculated from the multiple-time brain uptake analysis were 0.93, 1.33 and 1.66 microliter.min-1 g-1 ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Zlokovic BV,Susic VT,Davson H,Begley DJ,Jankov RM,Mitrovic DM,Lipovac MN

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was undertaken to investigate the oxidation and reduction of cholecystokinin (CCK) both as pure standards and as endogenous porcine peptides. Furthermore an attempt was made to prevent oxidation of the endogenous porcine peptides in the extraction procedure. CCK-8 and CCK-33 standards were always oxidized in...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bacarese-Hamilton AJ,Adrian TE,Chohan P,Antony T,Bloom SR

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:A large body of evidence suggests a relationship between depression and coronary heart disease (CHD). Angiotensin-Ⅱ (Ang-Ⅱ) and angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)] are considered to exert biological effects in both conditions. Here, we aimed to determine the role of Ang-Ⅱ and Ang-(1-7) in the occurrence of comorbid depressi...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Han W,Wei Z,Dang R,Guo Y,Zhang H,Geng C,Wang C,Feng Q,Jiang P

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of these studies were to determine the precise molecular nature of immunoreactive (IR-) vasopressin (AVP) in the ovine hypothalamo-pituitary axis and to examine a possible role for glucocorticoids in regulating both AVP processing and levels in this axis. The IR-AVP in extracts of paraventricular nucleus, med...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Shen PJ,Clarke IJ,Funder JW,Smith AI

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food deprivation inhibits estrous behavior in several species of rodents, but little is known about the neurotransmitter systems mediating this phenomenon. We determined whether partial blockade of opioid receptors by continuous infusion of naltrexone and/or acute peripheral injection of cholecystokinin (CCK) administ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Jones JE,Corp ES,Wade GN

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motilin-immunopositive cells (Mo cells) are known to be present in the upper small intestine of various species, including man. However, whether Mo cells are present in the rabbit gastrointestinal tract remained to be elucidated. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the distribution of Mo cells in the rab...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Satoh M,Sakai T,Koyama H,Shiba Y,Itoh Z

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous reports have demonstrated that systemic injection of cholecystokinin (CCK) in rats produces dose-related decreases in food intake, increases in neurohypophyseal secretion of oxytocin (OT), and decreases in gastric emptying. The present studies determined whether systemic injection of bombesin (BBS), another p...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Verbalis JG,McCann MJ,Stricker EM

更新日期：1988-11-01 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：:Host-defense peptides secreted by epithelial cells exhibit cytotoxic and immunoregulatory effects in order to protect the organism against invading microorganisms. Antimicrobial peptides derived from frog skin display both immunostimulatory and immunosuppressive actions as demonstrated by in vitro cytokine production ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Pantic JM,Radosavljevic GD,Jovanovic IP,Arsenijevic NN,Conlon JM,Lukic ML

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous physiological studies have suggested central roles of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP). However, little information is available about the localization of BNP in the brain. In this study, we determined cDNA sequence encoding the entire coding region of prepro-BNP of Japanese and cynomologus monkeys, and then e...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Abdelalim EM,Takada T,Torii R,Tooyama I

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although enterostatin (VPDPR) inhibited morphine-induced analgesia, it had no affinity for mu-opioid receptors. VPDPR administration was reported to elevate serum corticosterone levels. We found that corticosterone exhibited a similar anti-analgesic effect selective for mu-opioid. Furthermore, the anti-analgesic effec...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Takenaka Y,Nakamura F,Usui H,Lipkowski AW,Toth G,Yoshikawa M

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the conscious dog migrating and nonmigrating colonic motor complexes (CMC) were recorded by means of chronically implanted strain gauge force transducers. Intravenous injection of a synthetic enkephalin analogue immediately induced a premature CMC at all three recording sites of the colon. Naloxone inhibited the en...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bickel M,Belz U

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal behavioral and neurochemical studies implicate dopaminergic systems in the neurological sequelae induced by estrogen. In the present study, we demonstrated for the first time that MIF-1, a neuropeptide unrelated to classical dopamine agonists, when given prior to, concurrently with, and after 17 beta-estradiol,...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rajakumar G,Chiu P,Chiu S,Johnson RL,Mishra RK

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locust abdominal ganglia are shown to colocalize Locusta-diuretic peptide-, leucokinin I-, and lysine vasopressin-like immunoreactivity in posterior lateral neurosecretory cells. Extracts of abdominal ganglia were partially purified by RP-HPLC then dot immunoassay screened with the same antisera used for immunocytoche...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Thompson KS,Rayne RC,Gibbon CR,May ST,Patel M,Coast GM,Bacon JP

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substance P (SP) is known to be involved in processes related to learning and memory, fear, anxiety and stress. SP and NK1 receptors are localized in the hippocampus, a brain structure involved in learning and memory as well as emotional processes. As there is evidence for differential functions of the ventral (VH) an...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Carvalho MC,Masson S,Brandão ML,de Souza Silva MA

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The UII and urotensin II-related peptide (URP) genes belong to the same superfamily as the somatostatin gene. It has been previously shown that somatostatin activates the UII-receptor (UTR). In contrast, the possible interaction between UII and URP and somatostatin receptors has remained scarcely analyzed. Herein, we ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Malagon MM,Molina M,Gahete MD,Duran-Prado M,Martinez-Fuentes AJ,Alcain FJ,Tonon MC,Leprince J,Vaudry H,Castaño JP,Vazquez-Martinez R

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00