Radioautographic localization of somatostatin-14 and somatostatin-28 binding sites in the rat brain.

abstract：:The presence of immunoreactive porcine brain natriuretic peptide in rat tissues was studied with a specific radioimmunoassay for porcine brain natriuretic peptide-26. The cross-reactivity of the antiserum used was less than 0.001% with rat atrial natriuretic peptide, rat brain natriuretic peptide-32 and rat brain natr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Sone M,Totsune K,Takahashi K,Ohneda M,Itoi K,Murakami O,Yoshinaga K,Mouri T

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various enkephalins (ENK) have been reported to alter heart rate, systemic blood pressure, and respiratory function but with variable results. We previously found that pentobarbital anesthesia reversed the increases in heart rate and systemic arterial blood pressure produced by Leu5-ENK in the dog. We have now studied...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Sander GE,Giles TD,Kastin AJ,Quiroz AC,Kaneish A,Coy DH

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The striatum is richly innervated by both enkephalinergic and dopaminergic neurons, providing an anatomic framework from which intimate functional interrelationships between these neuronal systems may be postulated. Accordingly, many functional processes within dopamine neurons have been shown to be modulated by opioi...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： George SR,Kertesz M

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Receptors for neuropeptide Y (NPY) and peptide YY (PYY) have been extensively characterized in the brain. Less is known about NPY receptor subtypes in the spleen, though it is well established that NPY produces vascular contraction in this tissue. In the present study, we found an unusually high density of Y1 receptor...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Gehlert DR,Gackenheimer SL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of third ventricular (IVT) injection of 25 micrograms of bradykinin (BK) upon plasma levels of LH, FSH, TSH, GH and prolactin were investigated in conscious ovariectomized female rats bearing indwelling jugular cannulae. Some animals were pretreated with bradykinin potentiating factor (BPF). Intravenous ad...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Steele MK,Negro-Vilar A,McCann SM

更新日期：1980-10-01 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：:Numerous substance P (SP) immunoreactive nerve fibers were located around submucosal glands in the guinea pig nasal mucosa. Since these SP positive nerve fibers were also positive for vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, and to a lessor extent for neuropeptide Y, they were presumed to be parasympathetic fibers. SP recep...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Shibano A,Kawai Y,Senba E

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:Opioid receptor binding properties of [3H]Tyr-D-Ala-Phe-Phe-NH2 (TAPP) were characterized in rat brain and Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells expressing the rat mu-receptor. In rat brain, [3H]TAPP labeled a single class of opioid sites with a dissociation constant (Kd) of 0.31 nM and maximal number of binding sites (Bm...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Spetea M,Otvös F,Tóth G,Nguyen TM,Schiller PW,Vogel Z,Borsodi A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological and immunological relationships between molt-inhibiting hormone (MIH) activity in eyestalk ganglia extracts of the crab, Cancer antennarius Stimpson, and peptides of the vasopressin-oxytocin family were assessed. Lysine vasopressin (LVP), arginine vasopressin (AVP), vasotocin (VT), and oxytocin (OT) mimicke...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Mattson MP,Spaziani E

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of muscarinic receptor subtype(s) in the control of gastric phase III contractions and motilin release was determined in dogs. Pirenzepine (226 nmol/kg/h) shortened the phase III cycle, causing an early increase in plasma motilin concentrations. Both AF-DX116BS and 4-DAMP inhibited the occurrence of spontaneo...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Yamada T,Mizumoto A,Satoh M,Haga N,Itoh Z

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to measure changes in brain levels of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is an important step toward understanding the role of this neuropeptide in mood states. Here, we report for the first time that the protein (Western) immunoblot assay can be used to detect and quantify CRF (4.7 kDa) from the rat bra...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Meloni EG,Jackson AV,Cohen BM,Carlezon WA Jr

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucocorticoids have been shown to decrease CRF receptor binding in the anterior pituitary. To determine whether glucocorticoids or CRF peptide modulate CRF-R1 gene expression, CRF-R1 mRNA levels in rat pituitary and brain were measured after administration of a synthetic glucocorticoid, dexamethasone (DEX) or rat/hum...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Zhou Y,Spangler R,LaForge KS,Maggos CE,Ho A,Kreek MJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholecystokinin octapeptides (CCK8s) have been purified from methanol extracts of two brains from each of two Australian marsupials, Tammar Wallaby and Eastern Quoll, containing 3 nmol and 2 nmol of the peptides, respectively. Immunoreactive CCK was concentrated on QMA SepPak cartridges and purified by two successive ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Fan ZW,Eng J,Shaw G,Yalow RS

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

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：:C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) is assuming increasing importance in cardiovascular disease, and in adults its plasma levels are related to clinical and functional disease severity. Data are scarce regarding the reference values for CNP in infancy. Aim of this study was to assess the reference intervals for CNP in hu...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Del Ry S,Cantinotti M,Cabiati M,Caselli C,Storti S,Prescimone T,Murzi B,Clerico A,Giannessi D

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：:In this work, we characterized the active site in the alpha-melanotropin hormone (alpha-MSH) sequence responsible for the enhancement of cAMP production in incubated striatal slices by using different alpha-MSH fragments. We also analyzed the effects of the co-incubation of the SCH23390, a dopaminergic D(1) antagonist...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Cecilia Cremer M,Silvina Sanchez M,Ester Celis M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Adrenomedullin (ADM) is a hypotensive peptide, originally isolated from human pheochromocytomas, and then found to be widely distributed in the various body systems. ADM derives from preproadrenomedullin, a 185-amino acid residue prohormone, containing at its N-terminal a 20-amino acid sequence, named proadrenomedulli...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Nussdorfer GG,Rossi GP,Mazzocchi G

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:To examine the relationship between glutamate receptors and the action of NC-1900 on a step-through passive avoidance (PA) task in mice, MK-801, an NMDA receptor blocker, and (S)-4-carboxyphenylglycine (4CPG), a group I metabotropic receptor antagonist, were administered intraventricularly (i.c.v.) singly or as co-inj...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Sato T,Ishida T,Tanaka K,Chowdhurry N,Irifune M,Hirate K,Mimura T,Nishikawa T

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mate attraction in Aplysia involves the long-distance water-borne protein pheromones attractin, enticin, and temptin which are released during egg-laying. Other water-borne pheromones are predicted to act in concert with attractin, enticin, and temptin, but their identities were unknown. We recently identified a highl...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Cummins SF,Nichols AE,Warso CJ,Nagle GT

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antiserum directed against the COOH-terminal region of neuropeptide K-(1-24)-peptide that shows only 0.5% reactivity with neuropeptide K has been used in radioimmunoassay to study the posttranslation processing of human beta-preprotachykinin. A primary midgut carcinoid tumor contained high concentration of substanc...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Conlon JM,Deacon CF,Grimelius L,Cedermark B,Murphy RF,Thim L,Creutzfeldt W

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of peptides immunoreactive for a synthetic peptide (V-9-M) contained in the amino-terminal of pro-CCK was examined. The potassium-evoked release of V-9-M immunoreactive peptides from rat cerebral cortical slices in vitro was calcium dependent. Cholecystokinin-secreting rat medullary thyroid carcinoma cells...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Cao G,Beinfeld MC

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bradykinin (BK)-related peptide was isolated from heat-denaturated plasma from an elasmobranch fish, the little skate, Leucoraja erinacea after incubation with porcine pancreatic kallikrein. The primary structure of the peptide (H-Gly-Ile-Thr-Ser-Trp-Leu-Pro-Phe-OH; skate BK) shows limited structural similarity to t...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Anderson WG,Leprince J,Conlon JM

更新日期：2008-08-01 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：:Bombyxin-IV, a molecular species of bombyxin, which is a member of insulin-like heterodimeric peptides of the silkworm Bombyx mori with prothoracicotropic hormone activity, was synthesized. The A- and B-chains of bombyxin-IV containing four and two Cys residues, respectively, were first synthesized separately by solid...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Maruyama K,Nagasawa H,Isogai A,Tamura S,Ishizaki H,Suzuki A

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides allegedly exert their action on microbial membranes. Bovine lactoferrin enfold two antimicrobial domains, lactoferricin B (LFcin B) and lactoferrampin (LFampin). Effects of representative peptides thereof on the membranes of Candida albicans and Escherichia coli were investigated. Confocal laser...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： van der Kraan MI,van Marle J,Nazmi K,Groenink J,van 't Hof W,Veerman EC,Bolscher JG,Nieuw Amerongen AV

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00