Functional comparison of two evolutionary conserved insect neurokinin-like receptors.

abstract：:[125I]beta-endorphin bound to high affinity (Kd = 0.25 nM) receptors in the caudal dorsomedial medulla of rats with a Bmax of 97 fmol/mg protein. The relative potency for displacement of [125I]beta-endorphin binding was: beta-endorphin(1-31) > beta-endorphin(1-27) > DAMGO > naloxone > N-acetyl-beta-endorphin(1-31) > U...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： D'Souza MM,Carr JA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to examine the antidepressant-like action of Ghrelin (Ghr), a hormone synthesized predominantly by gastrointestinal endocrine cells and released during periods of negative energy balance, in two behavioral models: tail suspension test (TST), a predictive model of antidepressant activity, and the olfact...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Carlini VP,Machado DG,Buteler F,Ghersi M,Ponzio MF,Martini AC,Schiöth HB,de Cuneo MF,Rodrigues AL,de Barioglio SR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect and mode of action of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) were studied in rat ileal strips. PACAP relaxed, concentration dependently, rat ileum and was 50 times more potent than the structurally related vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP). The inhibitory action of PACAP was not mo...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Katsoulis S,Clemens A,Schwörer H,Creutzfeldt W,Schmidt WE

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 may contribute to bronchial smooth muscle constriction and airway remodelling in asthma, where bronchial epithelial cells represent an important source of this peptide. We report here that asthmatic bronchial epithelial cells exposed to allergens in vitro induce the differentiation of airway fibroblasts i...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Sun G,Stacey MA,Bellini A,Marini M,Mattoli S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidomic analysis of norepinephrine-stimulated skin secretions of the South-East Asian frog Hylarana erythraea (formerly Rana erythraea partim) has led to the identification of multiple peptides with antimicrobial activity. Structural characterization of the peptides demonstrated that they belong to the brevinin-1 (...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Al-Ghaferi N,Kolodziejek J,Nowotny N,Coquet L,Jouenne T,Leprince J,Vaudry H,King JD,Conlon JM

更新日期：2010-04-01 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：:The presence of alpha-hANP immunoreactive material in human heart and plasma was investigated with a specific and sensitive radioimmunoassay and immunohistochemical method. It was found that alpha-hANP immunoreactive staining of specific atrial granules was located around the nucleus of atrial cardiocytes. No immunore...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Tang J,Song DL,Suen MZ,Xie CW,Chang D,Chang JK

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinealectomized (PX) and sham animals were administered either AVT (1 ng/kg) or vehicle (1 ml H20). Boxing-kicking-biting episodes were significantly reduced by administration of AVT, F(1,21) = 8.09, p less than 0.009. Crawling under behavior was increased in PXH20 animals (p less than 0.05). Non-aggressive rearing wa...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Brown R,King MG

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurotensin exerts its actions in the central nervous system and the periphery through three identified receptors. Two of them, the NTS2 and NTS3, display unusual properties either because of their complex signal transduction mechanisms (NTS2) or because of their structural composition as a non-G-protein-coupled recep...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Mazella J,Vincent JP

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using autoradiographic method and 125I-Tyro rat CGRP as a ligand, receptor binding sites were demonstrated in the rat central nervous system. Saturation studies and Scatchard analysis of CGRP-binding to slide mounted tissue sections containing primarily cerebellum showed a single class of receptors with a dissociation...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Skofitsch G,Jacobowitz DM

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) immunoreactive material has been found in extracts of the intestine, however, the structure of intestinal CGRP is not known. Analytical reverse phase HPLC and ion-exchange FPLC revealed one predominant immunoreactive CGRP peak in rabbit intestinal extracts. This material was puri...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Eysselein VE,Reeve JR Jr,Sternini C,Cominelli F,Davis WM,Davis MT,Lee TD,Ho FJ,Ridout D,Shively JE

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MPF is a tetrapeptide (structure Lys-Lys-Gly-Glu) that elicits a variety of neurotrophic effects in vivo consistent with a role in neuronal regeneration. In support of this role, we now show that MPF stimulates the proliferation of cultured astrocytes and neurite outgrowth from cultures of neocortical cholinergic and ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Owen DB,Morley JS,Ensor DM,Allen YS,Miles JB

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The somatostatin analogs D-Phe-Cys-D-Trp-Lys-Thr-Cys-Thr and the corresponding penicillamine compounds have been prepared and tested for their ability to displace [3H]naloxone and [3H] [D-Ala2, D-Leu5]enkephalin from rat brain receptors. While somatostatin and the cystine containing peptide displayed little or no pref...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Pelton JT,Gulya K,Hruby VJ,Duckles S,Yamamura HI

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of neuropeptides in the frontal ganglia of larvae of the tobacco hawkmoth, Manduca sexta, the tomato moth, Lacanobia oleracea and the cotton leafworm, Spodoptera littoralis was investigated using reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC), matrix-assisted laser desorption time of fl...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Audsley N,Matthews J,Weaver RJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I.c.v. injection for 9 days of either naltexone (NTX) (5, 10, 20, 40 micrograms/rat) or a selective mu peptide (CTOP) (0.125, 0.25, 0.5, 1, 3, 6 micrograms/rat) or delta (naltrindole) (NLT) (5, 10, 20 micrograms/rat) subtype opioid receptor antagonist affected sensitization to cocaine (COC) (50 mg/kg, i.p.) administer...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Braida D,Paladini E,Gori E,Sala M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of the prodynorphin gene in anuran amphibians and lungfishes may indicate that this gene arose as a result of the duplication of the proenkephalin gene early during the divergence of the Sarcopterygii, or that this gene may predate the divergence of the ray-finned fish and the lobe-finned fish. The cloni...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Alrubaian J,Lecaude S,Barba J,Szynskie L,Jacobs N,Bauer D,Brown C,Kaminer I,Bagrosky B,Dores RM

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new, p -carborane containing analog of tyrosine, 3-[1-hydroxy-1,12-dicarba-closo-dodecaboran (12)-12-yl]alanine, was prepared from protected 3-[1-hydroxy-1,12-dicarba-closo-dodecaboran (12)-12-yl]propionic acid in five steps using Oppolzer's sultam methodology for asymmetric hydroxyamination as the key step. The tyr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ujváry I,Nachman RJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strips of lower esophageal sphincter (LES) from rabbits were tested for their responses to several peptides, and to electrical field stimulation (EFS) under the presence of some peptides. Substance P (SP), motilin, and bombesin induced contraction, and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) induced relaxation. SP- and bo...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Kohjitani A,Shirakawa J,Okada S,Obara H

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Combined use of the intraaxonal retrograde transport of the fluorescent marker 'true blue' with substance P (SP) immunocytochemistry has been used to trace the nodose ganglion projections of SP-containing neurons of the aortic depressor nerve. It has been found that (1) SP immunoreactive (SP-I) cell bodies are clearly...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Helke CJ,Goldman W,Jacobowitz DM

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irisin was first identified in skeletal muscle cells, but its precise location has not yet been demonstrated, and there is limited information about irisin protein in other human and rat tissues. The present immunohistochemical study was undertaken to screen skeletal muscle and other tissues for irisin immunoreactivit...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Aydin S,Kuloglu T,Aydin S,Kalayci M,Yilmaz M,Cakmak T,Albayrak S,Gungor S,Colakoglu N,Ozercan IH

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Prolactin (PRL) is known to exert neuroprotective effects against excitotoxic damage in the hippocampus of female rats, both in vitro and in vivo. It is still unknown whether this effect can be seen in the male hippocampus and intracellular signaling mediating such action. To assess this, adult male CD-1 mice were sub...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Anagnostou I,Muñoz-Mayorga D,Morales T

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanylyl cyclases (GC) are widely distributed enzymes that signal via the production of the second messenger cGMP. The particulate guanylyl cyclases share a similar topology: an extracellular ligand binding domain and intracellular regulatory kinase-homology and cyclase catalytic domains. The natriuretic peptide recep...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Schulz S

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments characterized the behavioral effects of bombesin (BN) administered systemically (1-8 micrograms/kg; IP) or centrally at the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS) and the nucleus accumbens (NA) (0.0001-1.0 microgram/0.5 microliter). The role of dopaminergic system(s) in the mediation of BN-induced behavioral eff...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Johnston SA,Merali Z

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:While the circadian rhythm of pituitary adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) secretion has been well characterized, the ultradian rhythm has been less thoroughly investigated. To study the episodic nature of ACTH secretion, unrestrained, unanesthetized rats were bled continuously through indwelling jugular venous cannulae and b...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Carnes M,Brownfield MS,Kalin NH,Lent S,Barksdale CM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kyotorphin is a unique biologically active neuropeptide (l-tyrosine-l-arginine), which is reported to have opioid-like analgesic actions through a release of Met-enkephalin from the brain slices. N-methyl-l-tyrosine-l-arginine (NMYR), an enzymatically stable mimetic of kyotorphin, successfully caused potent analgesic ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Neyama H,Hamada Y,Tsukahara R,Narita M,Tsukamoto K,Ueda H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a great deal is published on the MCH neurons, very few works were devoted to the study of their development. However, existing literature points out two important traits: first, these neurons differentiate a MCH phenotype very early in all species studied so far, which might suggest a role for the MCH peptide...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Risold PY,Croizier S,Legagneux K,Brischoux F,Fellmann D,Griffond B

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether a sex difference exists in the biosynthetic capacity of vasopressingergic (AVP) neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST), we have used in situ hybridization and quantitative autoradiography to measure propressophysin messenger RNA levels in these cells from adult male and female r...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Miller MA,Vician L,Clifton DK,Dorsa DM

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00