Ghrelin promotes the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells in infarcted cardiac microenvironment.

abstract：:The effect of intraplantarly (i.pl.)-injected methionine-enkephalin (ME) on Concanavalin A (Con A)-induced paw edema in Dark Agouti (DA) and Albino Oxford (AO) rats was investigated. ME suppressed edema in DA rats, which was antagonized with naloxone (non-selective opioid receptor antagonist) and naltrindole (delta op...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Stanojević S,Radulović J,Kovacević-Jovanović V,Vujić V,Dimitrijević M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are believed to be a promising class of antimicrobial agents against bacteria and fungi. To promote the clinical use of AMPs, their antimicrobial activity and susceptibility to protease degradation should be further improved. The antimicrobial peptide Jelleine-I was originally isolated fr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Jia F,Zhang Y,Wang J,Peng J,Zhao P,Zhang L,Yao H,Ni J,Wang K

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the mechanism through which leptin increases Na(+), K(+)-ATPase activity in the rat kidney. Leptin was infused under anaesthesia into the abdominal aorta proximally to the renal arteries and then Na(+), K(+)-ATPase activity was measured in the renal cortex and medulla. Leptin (1mug/kgmin) increased Na(+), ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bełtowski J,Wójcicka G,Trzeciak J,Marciniak A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously described a 25mer anti-hypertensive peptide, previously named TsHpt-I (Tityus serrulatus Hypotensin-I), now Ts14, as an agonist of B2 kinin receptor. Bradykinin is known to play physiological roles in angiogenic, inflammatory, and fibrogenic processes, mostly mediated by B2 receptor. Therefore, we i...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Cassini-Vieira P,Felipetto M,Prado LB,Verano-Braga T,Andrade SP,Santos RAS,Teixeira MM,de Lima ME,Pimenta AMC,Barcelos LS

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This mass spectrometric study confines itself to peptide masses in the range of 500-1500Da. Adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) that are predicted from the genome of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, and the silk moth, Bombyx mori, are shown to exist as expressed peptides in the corpora cardiaca (CC) of the respecti...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Gäde G,Marco HG,Simek P,Audsley N,Clark KD,Weaver RJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration of neuroleptics has been shown to affect the endogenous levels, mRNA, posttranslational processing, and metabolism of neuropeptides in specific regions of rat brain. Neutral endopeptidase 24.11 (NEP) is known to metabolize a variety of neuropeptide substrates, including the enkephalins and neuro...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Konkoy CS,Oakes MG,Davis TP

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baboons received a 5-minute intravenous infusion of either saline or bombesin (BBS; 1-4 micrograms/kg) following 3 1/2 or 16 1/2 hours of food deprivation and were then allowed to eat for 30 minutes. Plasma insulin was significantly elevated following five minutes of BBS infusion, but there was no change of plasma glu...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Woods SC,Stein LJ,Figlewicz DP,Porte D Jr

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a novel vasoactive peptide, plasma coupling factor 6 (CF6) was shown to be elevated in patients with diabetes mellitus, yet the mechanism involved is unknown. We studied CF6 protein release and its potential mechanism in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) incubated with high glucose levels. High glucos...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Li X,Xing S,Zhang L,Xing Q,Yan S,Dai H,You S,Pang Y,Tang C

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this Festschrift, I discuss the career and guiding principles to which Abba J. Kastin has adhered during the last 20 years we worked together. I briefly describe the history of our joint laboratory group, the context of studies of peptide permeation across the blood-brain barrier (BBB), and newer developments in th...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Pan W

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments reported here investigate the conditionability, using taste aversion conditioning, of the antagonistic effects of alpha-MSH on the thermoregulatory changes associated with injection of bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in rats. Animals were administered LPS and then given alpha-MSH, as an un...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bull DF,Husband AJ,Munro KI,Exton MS,Pfister HP,King MG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The guinea pig ileum possesses NK-1 and NK-3 tachykinin receptors. As expected, [Pro9]SP and senktide, which are selective agonists of NK-1 and NK-3 receptors, respectively, were found to be highly potent in contracting the guinea pig ileum. Surprisingly, similar observations were made with septide, SP-O-CH3, [Apa9-10...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Petitet F,Saffroy M,Torrens Y,Lavielle S,Chassaing G,Loeuillet D,Glowinski J,Beaujouan JC

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STKR is a neurokinin receptor derived from the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. Insect tachykinin-related peptides, also referred to as "insectatachykinins", produce dose-dependent calcium and cyclic AMP responses in cultured Drosophila melanogaster Schneider 2 (S2) cells that were stably transfected with the cloned S...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Poels J,Nachman RJ,Akerman KE,Oonk HB,Guerrero F,De Loof A,Janecka AE,Torfs H,Vanden Broeck J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the two gonadotropin-releasing hormone homologue peptides GnRHI and GnRHII and their receptor GnRHR has been demonstrated in a number of malignancies. In hormone-dependent breast cancer, GnRH analogs are used for therapy in premenopausal women. Gene expression of GnRHI, II and R was studied in breast bio...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Pazaitou-Panayiotou K,Chemonidou C,Poupi A,Koureta M,Kaprara A,Lambropoulou M,Constantinidis TC,Galaktidou G,Koffa M,Kiziridou A,Kakolyris S,Kolios G,Kortsaris A,Chatzaki E

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japonicin-1 (FFPIGVFCKIFKTC) and japonicin-2 (FGLPMLSILPKALCILLKRKC), two peptides with differential growth-inhibitory activity against the Gram-negative bacterium, Escherichia coli and the Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, were isolated from an extract of the skin of the Japanese brown frog Rana japonica...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Isaacson T,Soto A,Iwamuro S,Knoop FC,Conlon JM

更新日期：2002-03-01 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：:The present study investigated the effects of neuropeptide Y (NPY) on food intake and body temperature (Tbo) in free-feeding unrestrained rats following injection into the medial hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) or the lateral perifornical hypothalamus (PFH). NPY (78-235 pmol) or saline was infused unilatera...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Currie PJ,Coscina DV

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The family of natriuretic peptides (NPs) discovered in mammalian tissues including cardiac atrium and brain consists of three members, namely, atrial, B- and C-type natriuretic peptides (ANP, BNP, CNP). Since the discovery, basic and clinical studies have been vigorously performed to explore the biological functions a...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Kato J

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid deposition in Alzheimer fibrils forms neurotoxic senile plaques in a process that may be modulated by associated proteins. In this work we demonstrate the ability of laminin-1 and laminin-2 to inhibit fibril formation and toxicity on cultured rat hippocampal neurons. We confirm that the laminin-1-derived pepti...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Morgan C,Bugueño MP,Garrido J,Inestrosa NC

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to elucidate the relationship between secretory pathway and processing for precursor molecule of peptide hormones, we performed immunoelectron microscopic studies to localize POMC-derived peptides in mouse cultured L cells (fibroblasts without secretory granules) and in mouse AtT20 cells (ACTH secreting pitui...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Osamura RY,Suemizu Y,Yoshimura S,Hori S,Inada K,Watanabe K,Nakai Y,Imura H

更新日期：1991-05-01 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：: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：:Four potent angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory peptides, IY, RIY, VW and VWIS, were isolated from subtilisin digest of rapeseed protein. Among them RIY and VWIS are new peptides with IC(50) 28 and 30 microM, respectively. All isolated peptides lowered blood pressure of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR)...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Marczak ED,Usui H,Fujita H,Yang Y,Yokoo M,Lipkowski AW,Yoshikawa M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phoenixin, a recently discovered 20-amino acid peptide was implicated in reproduction. However, the expression in food intake-regulatory nuclei such as the paraventricular nucleus, the arcuate nucleus and the nucleus of the solitary tract suggests an implication of phoenixin in food intake regulation. Therefore, we in...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Schalla M,Prinz P,Friedrich T,Scharner S,Kobelt P,Goebel-Stengel M,Rose M,Stengel A

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we used intracerebral microdialysis techniques to examine whether angiotensin II (ANG II) modulates the release of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) in the subfornical organ (SFO) in freely moving rats. Extracellular concentrations of 5-HT and its metabolite 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA)...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Tanaka J,Kariya K,Nomura M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial activity of peptides without disulfide bridges, spanning the carboxy-terminal segment of arthropod defensins, has been investigated. Although all the peptides have net positive charges, they exhibited varying antibacterial potencies and spectra. Atomic force and fluorescence microscopic analyses indi...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Varkey J,Singh S,Nagaraj R

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:Recent data suggests that neurons expressing the long form of the leptin receptor form at least two distinct groups within the caudal nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS): a group within the lateral NTS (Slt) and one within the medial (Sm) and gelantinosa (Sg) NTS. Discrete injections of leptin into Sm and Sg, a region...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ciriello J

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) esters of biotin are reported to react specifically with amino groups of peptides and proteins. However, we have found that these reagents can readily acylate other functional groups in specific peptide sequences under relatively mild conditions. We have extended our inquiry of sequence-depe...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Miller BT,Collins TJ,Rogers ME,Kurosky A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present review we reevaluated the experimental and clinical evidence that there is a local renin angiotensin system in the heart as well as the presence of a functional intracrine component which is activated during pathological conditions like heart failure and hypertension. The implications of these findings ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： De Mello WC,Frohlich ED

更新日期：2011-08-01 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