Effects of the antifungal peptide Skh-AMP1 derived from Satureja khuzistanica on cell membrane permeability, ROS production, and cell morphology of conidia and hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus.

abstract：:Angiotensin infusion increased glucose metabolism in 4 of 7 subdivisions of the rat subfornical organ, the effect being stronger in ventromedial compared to dorsolateral zones across the rostrocaudal axis. [Sar1-Leu8]Angiotensin II attenuated metabolic responses to intravenous angiotensin in all subfornical organ subr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Shaver SW,Kadekaro M,Gross PM

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：:Orexin is one of the orexigenic neuropeptides in the hypothalamus. Orexin neurons in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) project into the cerebral cortex and hippocampus in which the receptors are distributed in high concentrations. Therefore, to elucidate the actions of orexin in the cerebral cortex, we examined its effect...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Yamada N,Katsuura G,Tatsuno I,Asaki T,Kawahara S,Ebihara K,Saito Y,Nakao K

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because plasma levels of protein C (PC) or activated protein C (APC) are altered in certain diseases associated with vascular dysfunction, and APC has therapeutic potential in preventing microvascular coagulation in severe sepsis, potential vascular effects of PC and APC were compared to those of the vasoactive peptid...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bhattacharya A,Grinnell BW,Cohen ML

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon-like-peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a proglucagon-derived peptide expressed in the intestinal enteroendocrine-L cells and released after meal ingestion. GLP-1 reduces postprandial glycemia not only by its hormonal effects, but also by its inhibitory effects on gastrointestinal motility. Recently, we showed that GLP-1 a...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rotondo A,Amato A,Lentini L,Baldassano S,Mulè F

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various growth factors and their receptors are present in the nervous system. This review focuses on the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and its receptors in the central nervous system (CNS). Evidence indicates that EGF in the CNS is the result of local synthesis, by intrinsic and blood-derived macrophages, ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Plata-Salamán CR

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In non-pregnant goats, ovariectomy on day 12 of oestrous cycle resulted in parallel decrease of oxytocin and progesterone jugular concentration. Similarly, luteolysis, indicated by decreasing progesterone concentration, was accompanied by simultaneous release of oxytocin and oxytocin-associated neurophysins (mean of n...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Homeida AM

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracranial injection of an opioid antagonist (naloxone) caused aggregation of xanthophores in goldfish scales. This aggregating effect produced by naloxone was inhibited by an injection of methionine-enkephalin (M-ENK). M-ENK, when injected together with melatonin which normally produces aggregation of xanthopho...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Satake N

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the in vitro and in vivo biological activities of PG-KII (pGlu-Pro-Asn-Pro-Asp-Glu-Phe-Val-Gly-Leu-Met-NH2), a new peptide belonging to the tachykinin family, related to kassinin, isolated and sequenced from extracts of the skin of the Australian myobatrachid frog Pseudophryne güntheri, with those of the w...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Improta G,Broccardo M,Severini C,Erspamer V

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:Alzheimer's disease is one of the most common dementia among elderly worldwide. There is no therapeutic drugs until now to treat effectively this disease. One main reason is due to the poorly understood mechanism of Aβ peptide aggregation, which plays a crucial role in the development of Alzheimer's disease. It remain...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Tran L,Ha-Duong T

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Despite the high impact of the antimicrobial peptide hepcidin in iron homeostasis, the regulation of this hormone is still not completely understood. Studies concerning hepcidin regulation are performed at the mRNA level. For the first time we analyzed the regulation of hepcidin not only at mRNA, but also at protein l...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Fein E,Merle U,Ehehalt R,Herrmann T,Kulaksiz H

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of the VIP containing structures was studied in the gut and in the paravertebral sympathetic ganglia of the quail and chick embryos by immunocytochemistry. In the gut, development of peptidergic nerves followed a craniocaudal gradient. Immunoreactive fibres were first visible in the oesophagus at day ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Fontaine-Perus J

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides of the short neuropeptide F (sNPF) family have been shown to modulate feeding behavior in a wide variety of insect species. While these peptides stimulate feeding and food-searching behavior in Drosophila melanogaster and Apis mellifera, an opposite effect has recently been demonstrated in the desert locust, ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Dillen S,Verdonck R,Zels S,Van Wielendaele P,Vanden Broeck J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kisspeptins, a family of peptide products derived from the KiSS-1 gene, activate their cognate receptor GPR54 in various target tissues to exert disparate functions, including inhibition of tumor metastasis and control of reproductive function. In contrast to the plethora of studies that have analyzed in recent years ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Castaño JP,Martínez-Fuentes AJ,Gutiérrez-Pascual E,Vaudry H,Tena-Sempere M,Malagón MM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis Cry toxins recognizes their target cells in part by the binding to glycosyl-phosphatidyl-inositol (GPI) anchored proteins such as aminopeptidase-N (APN) or alkaline phosphatases (ALP). Treatment of Tenebrio molitor brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) with phospholipase C that cleaves out GPI-a...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Zúñiga-Navarrete F,Gómez I,Peña G,Bravo A,Soberón M

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a new serine protease inhibitor family has been described in arthropods. Eight members were purified from locusts and 13 peptides have been identified by cDNA cloning. The peptides share a conserved cysteine array (Cys-Xaa(9-12)-Cys-Asn-Xaa-Cys-Xaa-Cys-Xaa(2-3)-Gly-Xaa(3-6)-Cys-Thr-Xaa(3)-Cys) with nine inhi...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Simonet G,Claeys I,Van Soest S,Breugelmans B,Franssens V,De Loof A,Vanden Broeck J

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang II) uptake and transport across monolayers of bovine brain microvessel endothelial cells (BMECs) was demonstrated. Ang II transport was linear up to 2 h, saturable with a K(m) of 1.7 nM, and tended to be polarized with the apical-to-basolateral transport being greater. [3H]Ang II transport was foun...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Rose JM,Audus KL

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal levels of immunoreactive neurotensin (iNT) and neuromedin N (iNMN), as well as mRNA for the NT/NMN precursor, were elevated during the suckling period in rats. While transient expression of NT/NMN was observed at 1-5 days of age in the proximal small intestine and colon, NT/NMN levels in the ileum increased...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Muraki K,Mitra SP,Dobner PR,Carraway RE

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-stable enterotoxin b (STb) of Escherichia coli is a 48-amino acid basic, disulfide-bonded peptide that causes intestinal secretion in experimental animal models. Recent evidence suggests that the in vivo mechanism of STb action involves release of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and production of prostaglandin E2 (PGE...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Harville BA,Dreyfus LA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of spinal opioid receptors and spinal monoaminergic systems, in the antinociceptive effect of intrathecal (IT) salmon calcitonin, has been evaluated by means of the hot plate test, in the rat. Intrathecal pretreatment with 40 micrograms MR 1452 and 40 micrograms ICI 154,129, purported selective antagon...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Candeletti S,Romualdi P,Spadaro C,Spampinato S,Ferri S

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since its discovery, many physiologic functions have been ascribed to ghrelin, a gut derived hormone. The presence of a median fatty acid side chain on the ghrelin peptide is required for the binding and activation of the classical ghrelin receptor, the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHSR)-1a. Ghrelin O-acyl tr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Al Massadi O,Tschöp MH,Tong J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRF injected into the third cerebral ventricle (0.5-2.5 micrograms) caused dose-related reductions in fever induced in rabbits by IV administration of leukocytic pyrogen. Control injections of CRF when the same animals were afebrile did not alter normal body temperature. Intravenous injections of 5 and 20 micrograms C...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Bernardini GL,Richards DB,Lipton JM

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding and internalization of a cytotoxic analogue of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH), T-98 (agonist [D-Lys6]LH-RH linked to glutaryl-2-(hydroxymethyl)anthraquinone), by rat anterior pituitary cells was investigated. Analogue T-98 was bound to pituitary membrane binding sites for LH-RH with a high a...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Szöke B,Horváth J,Halmos G,Rékási Z,Groot K,Nagy A,Schally AV

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natriuretic peptide receptor C (NPR-C) is known to bind all natriuretic peptides with similar affinity. Given their biological role it is interesting that natriuretic peptides and their activated guanylate cyclases (NPR-A and NPR-B) are expressed in retinal amacrine cells. The purpose of this study is to examine the p...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Abdelalim EM,Tooyama I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The melanocortin system plays an important role in energy homeostasis as well as skin pigmentation, steroidogenesis and exocrine gland function. In this study, we examined eight Ac-His-Phe-Arg-Trp-NH(2) tetrapeptides that were modified at the Phe position and pharmacologically characterized their activities at the hum...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Chen M,Georgeson KE,Harmon CM,Haskell-Luevano C,Yang Y

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To confirm and extend the results of previous studies which demonstrated central cardiovascular effects of vasopressin in anesthetized rats, we determined blood pressure and heart rate changes for 30 minutes after intracerebroventricular injections of arginine vasopressin, arginine vasotocin and oxytocin in conscious ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Zerbe RL,Kirtland S,Faden AI,Feuerstein G

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex pheromone biosynthesis in many moth species is controlled by a cerebral neuropeptide, termed pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide (PBAN). PBAN is a 33 amino acid C-terminally amidated neuropeptide that is produced by neuroendocrine cells of the subesophageal ganglion (SEG). Studies of the regulation of s...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Altstein M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin IV (Ang IV) is formed by aminopeptidase N from Ang III by removing the first N-terminal amino acid. Previously, we reported that Ang III has some cardioprotective effects against global ischemia in Langendorff heart. However, it is not clear whether Ang IV has cardioprotective effects. The aim of the prese...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Park BM,Cha SA,Lee SH,Kim SH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00