Presence of biologically and immunologically active secretin-like substance in the mammalian brain.

abstract：:Ghrelin is broadly expressed in myocardial tissues, where it exerts different functions. It also has been found to have a wide variety of biological functions on cell differentiation and tissue development. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ghrelin on human embryonic stem cell (hESC) differentiati...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Gao M,Yang J,Liu G,Wei R,Zhang L,Wang H,Wang G,Gao H,Chen G,Hong T

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effects of inducing stereo-chemical modifications in the structure of dermorphin (DM) so as to improve its mu-opioid receptor affinity and its resistance to C-terminal enzymatic degradation, in the Institute of Molecular Genetics of Moscow, we synthesized a new DM analogue ([DPro(6)]DM) and analyzed the c...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Broccardo M,Usenko AB,Uranova MG,Guzevatykh LS,Kamensky AA,Andreeva LA,Alfeeva LY,Myasoedov NF,Giannini E,Improta G,Emel'yanova TG

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:Apelin and its receptor APJ are expressed in fetal tissues but their function and regulation remain largely unknown. In rat, maternal treatment with a nitric oxide synthase inhibitor inducing hypertension was used to investigate apelin plasma levels in mother/fetus pairs and on the gene expression level of the apelin/...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ivars J,Butruille L,Knauf C,Bouckenooghe T,Mayeur S,Vieau D,Valet P,Deruelle P,Lesage J

更新日期：2012-05-01 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：:The incretin hormones, glucose dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1), potentiate insulin secretion and are responsible for the majority of insulin secretion that occurs after a meal. They may also, however, have a fundamental role in pancreatic beta cell development and functio...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Omar B,Ahlkvist L,Yamada Y,Seino Y,Ahrén B

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that the nervous system and other tissues of molluscs contain a number of peptides that potently excite molluscan hearts. Two such peptides, termed small cardioactive peptides A and B (SCPA and SCPB) are present in large quantities in the nervous system of Aplysia. These peptides are widely...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Lloyd PE,Kupfermann I,Weiss KR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews aspects of NPY research that were emerging in 1985, shortly after the isolation and characterization of the peptide. NPY had become known for its widespread distribution especially in the central and peripheral nervous systems, but also in the gastro-intestinal and respiratory tracts and in fibers i...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Chronwall BM,Zukowska Z

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 40 peptides belonging to the -Y/FXFGL-NH(2) allatostatin superfamily have been isolated and identified from the central nervous system (CNS) of the tiger prawn, Penaeus monodon (Crustacea: Penaeidea). The peptides can be arranged in seven sub-groups according to the variable post-tyrosyl residue represented ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Duve H,Johnsen AH,Scott AG,Thorpe A

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti) produces at least four different crystal proteins that are specifically toxic to different mosquito species and that belong to two non-related family of toxins, Cry and Cyt named Cry4Aa, Cry4Ba, Cry11Aa and Cyt1Aa. Cyt1Aa enhances the activity of Cry4Aa, Cry4Ba or Cry11A...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Cantón PE,Zanicthe Reyes EZ,Ruiz de Escudero I,Bravo A,Soberón M

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the distributions of ACTH, CCK and enkephalin immunoreactive nerves in the rat central nervous system and compared the pattern obtained with that of opiate receptors. In addition, a radioreceptor assay has been employed for studying the possible functional interactions between these peptides and opiat...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Stengaard-Pedersen K,Larsson LI

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of caseinomacropeptide (CMP) (the [106-169] fragment of kappa-casein produced during digestion of milk protein), was studied in anesthetized rats using bile diversion for a pure pancreatic juice collection system. Intraduodenal administration of CMP induced a dose-related specific stimulation of pancreatic ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Pedersen NL,Nagain-Domaine C,Mahé S,Chariot J,Rozé C,Tomé D

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) has a similar structure to that of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and both the polypeptides belong to the same molecular group, the secretin-glucagon superfamily. PACAP and VIP have possible potency as hypothalamic factors mediating the release of pituita...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Matsuda K,Maruyama K,Nakamachi T,Miura T,Uchiyama M,Shioda S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obestatin regulates fluid and electrolyte homeostasis mainly by opposing the action of vasopressin (AVP). We measured plasma concentration of obestatin and AVP in patients with cardiorenal syndrome (CRS). Plasma AVP and obestatin concentration were measured in 34 patients with type II CRS. The data were compared to th...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Shi JB,Guo ZF,Zheng X,Wang ZB,Ma YJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to detect the change of substance P (SP) in firearm wounds and its relationship with wound healing. Twenty two rabbits were randomly divided into two groups, one with firearm wounds created by steel balls shooting rabbits' thighs and another with stab wounds created by knife. The experim...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Xinan L,Suguang L,Liangchao Z,Lei C

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：: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：:The rat central and peripheral nervous system contains a widespread distribution of BPP-like immunoreactive neurons. Some of these neurons coexist with a catecholamine, probably mostly NE. This peptide appears to be releaseable by nerve stimulation. Catecholamine releasing agents such as reserpine do not appear to dep...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Jacobowitz DM,Olschowka JA

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) on the release of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) from the tilapia pituitary gland was studied in vitro. In a superfusion set up, 10 nM to 1 microM synthetic salmon MCH caused a concentration-dependent inhibition of alpha-MSH release from tilapia neuro...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Gröneveld D,Balm PH,Wendelaar Bonga SE

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous works associate the MCH peptide, and the hypothalamic neurons that produce it, to the feeding behavior and energy homeostasis. It is commonly admitted that MCH is an orexigenic peptide, and MCH neurons could be under the control of arcuate NPY and POMC neurons. However, the literature data is not always conco...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Griffond B,Risold PY

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the adrenal gland all components of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) are expressed in both the adrenal cortex and the adrenal medulla. In this review evidence shall be presented that a local secretory RAS exists in the adrenal cortex that stimulates aldosterone production and serves as an amplification system for...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Peters J

更新日期：2012-04-01 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：:Interdigestive migrating contractions (IMC) were analyzed for their occurrence interval, duration, migrating velocity, and frequently in long term records obtained by means of chronically implanted force transducers in the main stomach and the extrinsically denervated fundic pouches or in the intact jejunum and the ex...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Itoh Z,Nakaya M,Suzuki T

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article is the eighteenth installment of our annual review of research concerning the opiate system. It includes articles published during 1995 reporting the behavioral effects of the opiate peptides and antagonists, excluding the purely analgesic effects. The specific topics covered this year include stress: tol...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Olson GA,Olson RD,Kastin AJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the cephalopod mollusk Octopus vulgaris, the gonadotropic hormone released by the optic gland controls sexual maturity. Several lobes of the central nervous system control the activity of this gland. In one of these lobes, the olfactory lobe, a gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neuronal system has been describe...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Di Cristo C,De Lisa E,Di Cosmo A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study structure-activity relationships of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH), a competitive binding assay was developed using cloned porcine adenopituitary GHRH receptors expressed in human kidney 293 cells. Specific binding of [His1, 125I-Tyr10,Nle27]hGHRH(1-32)-NH2 increased linearly with protein concentrati...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Hassan HA,Hsiung HM,Zhang XY,Smith DP,Smiley DL,Heiman ML

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process whereby fully differentiated epithelial cells transition to a mesenchymal phenotype, has been implicated in the pathogenesis of renal fibrosis. Apelin, a bioactive peptide, has recently been recognized to protect against renal profibrotic activity, but the underlyi...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Wang LY,Diao ZL,Zheng JF,Wu YR,Zhang QD,Liu WH

更新日期：2017-10-01 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

abstract：:Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a proglucagon-derived hormone with cellular protective actions. We hypothesized that GLP-1 would protect the endothelium from injury during inflammation. Our aims were to determine the: (1) effect of GLP-1 on basal microvascular permeability, (2) effect of GLP-1 on increased microvas...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Dozier KC,Cureton EL,Kwan RO,Curran B,Sadjadi J,Victorino GP

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of adrenomedullin (ADM) on C6 glioma cells were investigated. [125I]ADM bound with high affinity (Kd = 24 nM) to a single class of sites (Bmax = 36,000/cell) in C6 cells. Specific [125I]ADM binding was inhibited with high affinity by ADM (IC50 value of 10 nM) but not ADM(22-52) or pro-adrenomedullin N-term...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Moody TW,Miller MJ,Mártinez A,Unsworth E,Cuttitta F

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00