Synthetic peptides derived from human antimicrobial peptide ubiquicidin accumulate at sites of infections and eradicate (multi-drug resistant) Staphylococcus aureus in mice.

abstract：:We demonstrated the production and release of a peptide structurally identical with porcine and bovine VIP-28 in human neuroblastoma NB-OK-1 cell line. In the cells, VIP-like immunoreactive (IR-VIP) components of 8 K dalton (Kd), 11 Kd, 18 Kd and 30 Kd were also detected and the 8 Kd and 18 Kd components were apparent...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Hoshino M,Yanaihara C,Ogino K,Iguchi K,Sato H,Suzuki T,Yanaihara N

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of the vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) is well conserved between species. Thus, all mammalian VIPs isolated so far, except that of the guinea pig, have the same amino acid sequence. This study describes the isolation and primary structure of sheep brain VIP. The purification was followe...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Gafvelin G

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short synthetic peptides corresponding to sequences of complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) from different immunoglobulin families have been shown to induce antimicrobial, antiviral and antitumor activities regardless of the specificity of the original monoclonal antibody (mAb). Presently, we studied the in vitr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Figueiredo CR,Matsuo AL,Massaoka MH,Polonelli L,Travassos LR

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:So far numerous antimicrobial peptides have been characterized from amphibians. In this work, a new family of antimicrobial peptides, named shuchin, was purified and characterized from skin secretions of the frog, Rana shuchinae that lives in freezing mountains. Totally two members of shuchin (shuchin 1 and 2) were id...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Zheng R,Yao B,Yu H,Wang H,Bian J,Feng F

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the effect of adjuvant arthritis on the content of immunoreactive calcitonin gene-related peptide (iCGRP) in the dorsal root ganglia at L4-L6 levels and the spinal cord at a lumbar level in rats. Arthritis was induced by inoculating adjuvant into both hind-paws twice at a 10 day interval. In the arthritic ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Kuraishi Y,Nanayama T,Ohno H,Fujii N,Otaka A,Yajima H,Satoh M

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of muscarinic receptor subtype(s) in the control of gastric phase III contractions and motilin release was determined in dogs. Pirenzepine (226 nmol/kg/h) shortened the phase III cycle, causing an early increase in plasma motilin concentrations. Both AF-DX116BS and 4-DAMP inhibited the occurrence of spontaneo...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Yamada T,Mizumoto A,Satoh M,Haga N,Itoh Z

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) plays an essential role in weight regulation. Recently we could show that the MC4R is able to form receptor dimers. In the present study we investigated the role of extracellular cysteine residues and the structure of the third extracellular loop for receptor dimerization. None of th...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Elsner A,Tarnow P,Schaefer M,Ambrugger P,Krude H,Grüters A,Biebermann H

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebroventricular (ICV) bombesin increases grooming and decreases food intake in rats. We examined tolerance to these effects by administering a daily injection of either saline or 25 ng bombesin to rats for 8 days via lateral ventricular cannulas. Food intake and grooming were monitored. After 8 days bombesin n...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Corwin RL,Corp ES,Gibbs J,Smith GP

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to examine the effects of CPB on salusin-α, salusin-β and apelin-36 bioactive peptides in people who are planned to undergo coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) operation due to coronary artery disease and to explore whether these peptides are produced in human aortic, saphenous and arterial tissues. T...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Aydin S,Eren MN,Aydin S,Ozercan IH,Dagli AF

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：: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：:Cholecystokinin induces a reduction in exploratory behaviors which could reflect an underlying behavioral state of either satiety or malaise. To investigate these alternative hypotheses, the effects of CCK were compared to the effects of (a) consumption of an extra quantity of palatable food, of (b) bombesin at doses ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Crawley JN

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to establish Endothelin (ET-3) role in the central regulation of bile secretion in the rat. The intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of ET-3 evoked a cholestatic or a choleretic effect depending on the administered dose. Lower doses increased bile flow and bicarbonate excretion, whereas higher doses decre...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rodríguez MR,Sabbatini ME,Santella G,Dabas P,Villagra A,Vatta MS,Bianciotti LG

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naltrexone, an opiate antagonist, was administered to young obese (ob/ob) and lean mice for five weeks. Animals had continuous access to food and received 10 mg/kg SC twice daily with equivalent volumes of saline given to controls. The effects on body weight, and pituitary and plasma levels of beta-endorphin-like mate...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Recant L,Voyles NR,Luciano M,Pert CB

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adjacent tissue sections through the rat median eminence were examined for the distribution of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) and catecholamines (CA). A simultaneous visualization technique was employed for this correlative neuroanatomical analysis. At rostral and mid-central levels of the median eminence the m...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： McNeill TH,Scott DE,Sladek JR Jr

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herein the effect of orexin receptor type-1 antagonist SB-334867 on the development of tolerance to analgesic effects of morphine was studied in rats. To incite tolerance, morphine sulfate was injected intraperitoneally (i.p., 10mg/kg) once a day for 7 days. The tail flick test was used to evaluate antinociceptive eff...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ranjbar-Slamloo Y,Azizi H,Fathollahi Y,Semnanian S

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dissociated muscle cells prepared from hearts of the pulmonate snail Helix aspersa were used to study signal transduction induced by molluscan cardioactive peptides. The effects of SCPb on the cAMP levels of whole hearts and the cell preparation were compared. The cells responded to SCPb with a dose-dependent increase...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Reich G,Doble KE,Greenberg MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ceruletide (CLT: 160 micrograms/kg, SC) produced a relatively long-lasting inhibition of haloperidol (HPD: 2 mg/kg, PO) catalepsy in rats. Neither bilateral vagotomies nor hypophysectomy abolished the anticataleptic effect of CLT. However, (-)-L-364,718 and proglumide blocked the effect of CLT. CLT (160 micrograms/kg)...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ibii N,Ikeda M,Takahara Y,Eigyo M,Akiyoshi T,Matsushita A

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial neutral endopeptidase (EC 3.4.24.11, NEP) contributes to the inactivation of vasoactive and inflammatory peptides such as f-Met-Leu-Phe, substance P, atrial natriuretic peptide, and bradykinin. The aim of the present study was to investigate the cellular regulation of NEP expression in human endothelial ce...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Graf K,Kunkel K,Zhang M,Gräfe M,Schultz K,Schudt C,Biroc S,Fleck E,Kunkel G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deltorphin, a heptapeptide that selectively binds to delta receptors, was intracerebroventricularly administered to mice belonging to the strains C57BL/6 and DBA/2 immediately after training in a one-trial inhibitory avoidance task. The retention performance of both strains was improved by the peptide administration, ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Pavone F,Populin R,Castellano C,Kreil G,Melchiorri P

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GPR103 receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor, which plays a role in several physiological functions. However, the role of the GPR103 receptor in anxiety has not been clarified. The first aim of our study was to elucidate the involvement of the GPR103 receptor in anxious behavior. Mice were treated with peptide ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Palotai M,Telegdy G

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1989, the development of specific angiotensin receptor antagonists which distinguish between two angiotensin receptor subtypes (AT1 and AT2) led to a breakthrough in angiotensin research. It turned out, that the AT1 receptor was almost entirely responsible for the "classical" actions of angiotensin II related to th...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Steckelings UM,Kaschina E,Unger T

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods have been developed for the microsurgical interruption of nerve pathways in the wall of the intestine and for the immunohistochemical localization of antigens in whole mounts. These methods have made it possible to determine accurately the distributions and projections of neurons containing different putative ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Furness JB,Costa M,Llewellyn-Smith IJ

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxyntomodulin (OXM), a 37-amino acid glucagon-containing peptide produced mainly in intestine and endocrine pancreas, is present in rat plasma and inhibits pentagastrin-stimulated gastric acid secretion in both the anesthetized and the conscious rat. In order to investigate the modifications in acid and water secretio...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Jarrousse C,Niel H,Audousset-Puech MP,Martinez J,Bataille D

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The very first step in the study of the endocrine control of insect molting was taken in 1922. Stefan Kopec characterized a factor in the brain of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar which appeared to be essential for metamorphosis. This factor was later identified as the neuropeptide prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH), t...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Marchal E,Vandersmissen HP,Badisco L,Van de Velde S,Verlinden H,Iga M,Van Wielendaele P,Huybrechts R,Simonet G,Smagghe G,Vanden Broeck J

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cone snails comprise approximately 700 species of venomous molluscs which have evolved the ability to generate multiple toxins with varied and exquisite selectivity. alpha-Conotoxin is a powerful tool for defining the composition and function of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors which play a crucial role in excitatory...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Peng C,Han Y,Sanders T,Chew G,Liu J,Hawrot E,Chi C,Wang C

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the D-Trp residues in the sequence of the NK2-selective tachykinin antagonist, MEN 10207 (Asp-Tyr-D-Trp-Val-D-Trp-D-Trp-Arg-NH2). has been examined by replacement of each D-Trp with either the L-isomer or the residue naturally occurring in the same position of neurokinin A(4-10). The biological activity of...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rovero P,Astolfi M,Renzetti AR,Patacchini R,Giachetti A,Maggi CA

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three neurotensin (NT) receptors have been cloned to date, two of which, NTS1 and NTS2, belong to the family of seven transmembrane domain receptors coupled to G proteins (GPCRs). NTS1 and NTS2 may activate multiple signal transduction pathways, involving several G proteins. However, whereas NT acts as an agonist towa...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Pelaprat D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is now recognized as an important modulator of body metabolic processes. The discovery of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) has renewed interest in the potential therapeutic role of RAS modulation. Recent studies have pointed out the importance of the local balance between ACE/A...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Moreira de Macêdo S,Guimarães TA,Feltenberger JD,Sousa Santos SH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urotensin-II (U-II), a cyclic peptide widely expressed in blood vessels, has diverse vascular actions that range from potent vasoconstriction to vasodilation. Although, U-II-induced vasodilation has been shown to be partially dependent on nitric oxide (NO), the involvement of vascular adventitia-derived NO, remains un...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Lin L,Ding WH,Jiang W,Zhang YG,Qi YF,Yuan WJ,Tang CS

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00