To4, the first Tityus obscurus β-toxin fully electrophysiologically characterized on human sodium channel isoforms.

abstract：:This study presents the binding and functional properties of the mouse NPFF(2) (mNPFF(2)) receptor, in comparison with its human counterpart (hNPFF(2)). Binding experiments were performed by using the NPFF(2) selective radioligand [(3)H]-EYF in membranes from CHO cells transfected with mouse and human NPFF(2) receptor...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Talmont F,Moulédous L,Piedra-Garcia L,Schmitt M,Bihel F,Bourguignon JJ,Zajac JM,Mollereau C

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Neurotensin and somatostatin have both been shown to inhibit gastric acid secretion, but no interaction between these peptides has been demonstrated. To determine whether somatostatin might be a mediator of neurotensin's effect on pentagastrin-stimulated gastric acid secretion, we performed the following three experim...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Hammer RA,Ochoa A,Fernandez C,Ertan A,Arimura A

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were injected IP with a 0.1 mg/kg dose of MIF-I, naloxone, dynorphin, [D-Phe4]-Met-enkephalin, [D-Ala2, F5Phe4]-Met-enkephalin-NH2, or the diluent vehicle, placed in their home cages for ten minutes, and then given ad lib access to either 20% sucrose, 10% sucrose, water, 0.01% quinine, or 0.02% quinine in a repea...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Olson RD,Kastin AJ,Olson GA,King BM,Von Almen TK,Berzas MC,Ibanez ML,Coy DH

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebroventricular (ICV) and subcutaneous (SC) injections of sauvagine powerfully inhibited gastric acid secretion stimulated by gastric distension and by 2-deoxy-D-glucose, but not by histamine in pylorus-ligated rats. Naloxone failed to antagonize the antisecretory effects of SC and ICV sauvagine. Intravenous i...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Improta G,Broccardo M

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：:The prothoracicotropic hormones (PTTH) are cerebral peptides that control insect postembryonic development by stimulating the prothoracic glands to synthesize ecdysteroids. Using immunoaffinity chromatography and SDS-PAGE, a 25.5 kDa big PTTH has been purified from Manduca sexta. Based upon SDS-PAGE and Western blot a...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Muehleisen DP,Gray RS,Katahira EJ,Thomas MK,Bollenbacher WE

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:Kisspeptins are biologically active cleavage peptides of the KiSS-1 gene products with important roles in the suppression of tumor metastasis and in the reproduction. The aim of the present study is to clarify changes of the expression of kisspeptins and kisspeptin receptor in the kidney with and without chronic renal...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Shoji I,Hirose T,Mori N,Hiraishi K,Kato I,Shibasaki A,Yamamoto H,Ohba K,Kaneko K,Morimoto R,Satoh F,Kohzuki M,Totsune K,Takahashi K

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:To investigate the contribution of the N-terminal sequence of h-EGF to its biological activity and the formation of three intramolecular disulfide bonds by oxidative refolding via air oxidation, five derivatives of h-EGF with a single N-terminal amino acid deletion were synthesized by solid-phase synthesis. The homoge...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Shin SY,Shimizu M,Ohtaki T,Munekata E

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunoreactive alpha-MSH was found in human skin and the skin of numerous other mammals. After hypophysectomy the concentration of alpha-MSH in rat skin showed little change suggesting that the pituitary is not the source of this MSH. In human skin the highest concentration was found in the epidermis and HPLC revealed...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Thody AJ,Ridley K,Penny RJ,Chalmers R,Fisher C,Shuster S

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ad lib and intraoral intake tests can separate the effects of drugs on the appetitive and consummatory phases of ingestive behavior. Central angiotensin II increases ad lib intake from water bottles, but its effect on intraoral intake has not been examined. Rats with both lateral intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) cannu...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Houpt TA,Corp ES,Berlin R

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:CRF system, structural conservation, has an association with feeding regulation in mammals. However, mammals and fish have different physiological mechanisms, the potential role of CRF system for feeding regulation in teleost fish are most unknown. To better explore possible feeding mechanisms of CRF system in Acipens...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Qi J,Xu S,Wang M,Chen H,Tang N,Wang B,Li Y,Zhang X,Chen D,Zhou B,Zhao L,Wang Y,Li Z

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) secreted by amphibian skin represent an important innate immune defense strategy. There are more than 340 species in the family of Ranidae worldwidely, and from which nearly 100 families of AMPs comprising between 8 and 48 amino acid (aa) residues have been characterized. In current work,...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Zhang S,Guo H,Shi F,Wang H,Li L,Jiao X,Wang Y,Yu H

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaires' disease, is a waterborne bacteria. It can multiply in man-made water systems and infect people who inhale contaminated droplets. We have previously reported a Staphylococcus warneri strain that display an anti-Legionella activity. In this work, we characteri...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Verdon J,Berjeaud JM,Lacombe C,Héchard Y

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal (i.p.) administration of the synthetic agonist of the glucagon like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor exenatide reduces food intake. Here, we evaluated possible peripheral pathways for this reduction. Exenatide (0.5 μg/kg, i.p.) was given to three, overnight food-deprived, groups of rats: total subdiaphragmat...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Hunt JV,Washington MC,Sayegh AI

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：: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：:As part of a continuing search for potential anticancer drug candidates from antimicrobial peptides of marine organisms, tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) hepcidin TH2-3 was evaluated in several tumor cell lines. The results indicated that TH2-3, a synthetic 20-mer antimicrobial peptide, specifically inhibited human f...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Chen JY,Lin WJ,Lin TL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracerebroventricular injections of rat hypothalamic growth hormone-releasing factor (rhGRF) were examined for effects on food intake in free-feeding rats. It was found that, in picomole doses, rhGRF had a stimulatory effect on food intake. Examination of higher doses of rhGRF revealed a decrease in the facilitatory...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Vaccarino FJ,Feifel D,Rivier J,Vale W,Koob GF

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phe-Leu-Phe-Gln-Pro-Gln-Arg-Phe-NH2 (NPFF), an endogenous mammalian antiopioid peptide, has been shown by other laboratories to attenuate the acute antinociceptive effects of morphine, the development of morphine tolerance, and naloxone-induced withdrawal in morphine-dependent rats. The present study determined the ef...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rothman RB,Brady LS,Xu H,Long JB

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) decreased food intake when administered ICV but not when administered peripherally to rats. Amylin, which has a close structural homology to CGRP, reduced food intake administered IP at concentrations higher than those previously tested for CGRP. We examined the effec...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Morley JE,Farr SA,Flood JF

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the importance of G-protein coupled receptors in the regulation of many physiological functions, deciphering the relationships between genotype and phenotype in past and present hominin GPCRs is of main interest to understand the evolutionary process that contributed to the present-day variability in human trait...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Mata X,Renaud G,Mollereau C

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ghrelin is a 28 amino acid peptide, primarily produced by the oxyntic mucosa X/A like neuroendocrine cells in the stomach. It is also found in the small intestine, hypothalamus, pituitary gland, pancreas, heart, adipose tissue, and immune system. In gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) ghrelin release has bee...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Vu JP,Wang HS,Germano PM,Pisegna JR

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:The endangered anuran species, Odorrana ishikawae, is endemic to only two small Japanese Islands, Amami and Okinawa. To assess the innate immune system in this frog, we investigated antimicrobial peptides in the skin using artificially bred animals. Nine novel antimicrobial peptides containing the C-terminal cyclic he...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Iwakoshi-Ukena E,Ukena K,Okimoto A,Soga M,Okada G,Sano N,Fujii T,Sugawara Y,Sumida M

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a class of peptides with 10 cysteine residues (-C-CC-C-CC-C-C-C-C-), D-superfamily conotoxins (D-conotoxins) can specifically act on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). According to the conserved signal peptides of D-conotoxins, seven D-conotoxin precursor sequences with a previously undescribed Cys arrange...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Lu J,Zhang K,Wang S,Sun T,Yu S,Dai Q,Liu Z

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureases (EC 3.5.1.5) are metalloenzymes that hydrolyze urea into ammonia and CO(2). These proteins have insecticidal and fungicidal effects not related to their enzymatic activity. The insecticidal activity of urease is mostly dependent on the release of internal peptides after hydrolysis by insect digestive cathepsin...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Postal M,Martinelli AH,Becker-Ritt AB,Ligabue-Braun R,Demartini DR,Ribeiro SF,Pasquali G,Gomes VM,Carlini CR

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00