Chronic treatment with neuroleptics alters neutral endopeptidase 24.11 activity in rat brain regions.

abstract：:Endomorphin1-ol (Tyr-Pro-Trp-Phe-ol, EM1-ol) and endomorphin2-ol (Tyr-Pro-Phe-Phe-ol, EM2-ol), with C-terminal alcohol (-ol) containing, have been shown to exhibit higher affinity and lower intrinsic efficacy in vitro than endomorphins. In the present study, in order to investigate the alterations of systemic hemodyna...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Yu Y,Wang CL,Cui Y,Fan YZ,Liu J,Shao X,Liu HM,Wang R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of our study was to explore the effect of social isolation stress of varying durations on the plasma oxytocin (OT), messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) for oxytocin receptor (OTR), plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP) and mRNA for V1a receptor of AVP (V1aR) expression in the hypothalamus and heart of socially mono...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Pournajafi-Nazarloo H,Kenkel W,Mohsenpour SR,Sanzenbacher L,Saadat H,Partoo L,Yee J,Azizi F,Carter CS

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Degradation of Boc CCK7 (Boc Tyr1 (SO3H)-Met2-Gly3-Trp4-Met5-Asp6-Phe7-NH2), a fully active analog of CCK8, by purified rabbit kidney neutral metalloendopeptidase (enkephalinase) was studied as a basis for the rational design of potent peptidases-resistant analogs of cholecystokinin. Characterization of the metabolite...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Durieux C,Charpentier B,Fellion E,Gacel G,Pelaprat D,Roques BP

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:A functional study has been performed to characterise the Y receptors responsible for NPY, PYY and PP-stimulated responses in mouse colonic mucosal preparations. Electrogenic ion secretion was stimulated with VIP following which NPY, PYY and PP analogues were, to varying degrees, inhibitory. PYY(3-36), hPP, Gln(23)hPP...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Cox HM,Pollock EL,Tough IR,Herzog H

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Although the biological effects of adrenomedullin (AM) and PAMP have been reported extensively in animal studies and from in-vitro experiments, relatively little information is available on responses to the hormone administered to man. This review summarizes data from the few studies carried out in man. In healthy vol...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Nicholls MG,Lainchbury JG,Lewis LK,McGregor DO,Richards AM,Troughton RW,Yandle TG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide S (NPS) produces several biological actions by activating a formerly orphan GPCR, now named NPS receptor (NPSR). It has been previously demonstrated that NPS stimulates murine leukocyte chemotaxis in vitro. In the present study we investigated the ability of NPS, in comparison with the proinflammatory pep...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Filaferro M,Novi C,Ruggieri V,Genedani S,Alboni S,Malagoli D,Caló G,Guerrini R,Vitale G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:125I-Ang I binding to atypical sites on Mycoplasma hyorhinis-contaminated IEC-18 cell membranes increased with increasing pH and [NaCl] (ED50 at 500 mM; maximal 13-fold increase at 2 M NaCl). Alkali metal chlorides and sodium halides increased binding with rank orders of Na+ < K+ < Rb+ < Cs+ = Li+ and F- < Cl- < Br < ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Smith RD

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A myomodulin peptide has been suggested to mediate the response of the giant glial cells to stimulation of the Leydig interneuron in the central nervous system of the leech Hirudo medicinalis [Eur. J. Neurosci. 11 (1999) 3125]. We have now studied the glial response to the endogenous leech MM peptide (GMGALRL-NH(2), M...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Britz FC,Deitmer JW

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kiss1 mRNA and its corresponding peptide products, kisspeptins, are expressed in two restricted brain areas of rodents, the anteroventral periventricular nucleus (AVPV) and the arcuate nucleus (ARC). The concentration of mature kisspeptins may not directly correlate with Kiss1 mRNA levels, because mRNA translation and...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Overgaard A,Tena-Sempere M,Franceschini I,Desroziers E,Simonneaux V,Mikkelsen JD

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretin receptor is a member of a large family of G-protein-coupled receptors that recognize polypeptide hormone and/or neuropeptides. Charged, conserved residues might play a key role in their function, either by interacting with the ligand or by stabilizing the receptor structure. Of the four charged amino acid...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Di Paolo E,Vilardaga JP,Petry H,Moguilevsky N,Bollen A,Robberecht P,Waelbroeck M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two molecular forms of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) were identified in the extracts of various brain areas, spinal cord and pituitary in female and male goldfish and had chromatographic and immunological properties similar to [His5, Trp7, Tyr8]-GnRH (cGnRH-II) and [Trp7,Leu8]-GnRH (sGnRH). Radioimmunoassay us...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Yu KL,Sherwood NM,Peter RE

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Echinometra lucunter is an abundant sea urchin found in Brazilian waters. Accidents caused by this animal are common and are characterized by the penetration of the spines in the skin, which raises an inflammatory reaction through mechanical trauma as well as by the presumable action of toxins. Additionally, there hav...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Sciani JM,Sampaio MC,Zychar BC,Gonçalves LR,Giorgi R,Nogueira Tde O,de Melo RL,Teixeira Cde F,Pimenta DC

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermorphins are potent opiate-like peptides isolated from the skin of some species of frogs. They are characterized by the presence of a D-amino acid residue, which is crucial for bioactivity. A number of analogues were prepared in order to evaluate the structure-activity relationships. The syntheses were accomplished...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： de Castiglione R,Faoro F,Perseo G,Piani S,Santangelo F,Melchiorri P,Falconieri Erspamer G,Erspamer V,Guglietta A

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of the hypothalamic beta-endorphinergic system in behavioral processes has previously been studied in adult rats. In the present report, we studied the effects of undernutrition and of inhibitory avoidance training on the hypothalamic beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity of 21-day-old and adult rats. R...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Vendite D,Rocha JB,Souza DO

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：:Although previous studies have implicated NPY in the etiology of experimental cancer anorexia, the results have been difficult to interpret. Studies have suggested that although NPY level and message were decreased in the dorsomedial hypothalamic area (DMA), they were elevated in the ventromedial hypothalamic area (VM...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Chance WT,Xiao C,Dayal R,Sheriff S

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：:The identification and characterization of hypothetical membrane proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis have led to a better understanding of the mechanisms used by this pathogen to invade and survive inside host cells. This study assessed the presence, transcription, localization and possible biological activity of...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Cáceres SM,Ocampo M,Arévalo-Pinzón G,Jimenez RA,Patarroyo ME,Patarroyo MA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tight junctions (TJ) control paracellular permeability and apical-basolateral polarity of epithelial cells. Dysregulated permeability is associated with pathological conditions, such as celiac disease and inflammatory bowel disease. TJ formation is dependent on E-cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion and actin rearrang...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Gopalakrishnan S,Tripathi A,Tamiz AP,Alkan SS,Pandey NB

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a biologically active radioligand, [Tyr(125I)10]VIP, we have identified and characterized receptors for vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) on membranes prepared from the rat superior mesenteric artery and bovine coronary arteries. Binding was specific, saturable, reversible and dependent on time and temperature...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Huang M,Rorstad OP

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three separate sets of receptors sensitive to VIP, GIP and pancreatic/entero-glucagons, have been characterized in HGT-1 cells. The order of relative potencies of VIP receptor agonists was VIP greater than rh GRF-43, rh GRF-29 greater than PHI greater than hp GRF-40, secretin. G-37 was about 4 times less potent than G...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Emami S,Chastre E,Bodéré H,Gespach C,Bataille D,Rosselin G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One novel Kunitz BPTI-like peptide designated as BBPTI-1, with chymotrypsin inhibitory activity was identified from the venom of Burmese Daboia russelii siamensis. It was purified by three steps of chromatography including gel filtration, cation exchange and reversed phase. A partial N-terminal sequence of BBPTI-1, HD...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Guo CT,McClean S,Shaw C,Rao PF,Ye MY,Bjourson AJ

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the in vitro interaction of beta-endorphin with different biomembrane preparations, measured in terms of Ca2+ induced chlorotetracycline (CTC) fluorescence alterations indicate that beta-endorphin causes release of calcium ion from both synaptosomal and erythrocyte membrane stores but not from rat brain mit...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Chakrabarti AK,Chatterjee TK,Ghosh JJ

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motilin-immunopositive cells (Mo cells) are known to be present in the upper small intestine of various species, including man. However, whether Mo cells are present in the rabbit gastrointestinal tract remained to be elucidated. Therefore, this study was designed to investigate the distribution of Mo cells in the rab...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Satoh M,Sakai T,Koyama H,Shiba Y,Itoh Z

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:The last decades have seen no significant progress in extending the survival of lung cancer patients and there is an urgent need to improve current therapies. The substance P (SP)/neurokinin-1 receptor (NK-1R) system plays an important role in the development of cancer: SP and NK-1R antagonists respectively induce cel...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Muñoz M,González-Ortega A,Rosso M,Robles-Frias MJ,Carranza A,Salinas-Martín MV,Coveñas R

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report on the structural identity of a neuropeptide of the insect order Megaloptera. A peptide was isolated and sequenced from the retrocerebral corpora cardiaca glands of the alderfly, Sialis lutaria. The sequence of the peptide was deduced from the multiple MS(N) electrospray mass data as that of a...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Gäde G,Simek P,Marco HG

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Y5 receptor has been postulated to be the main receptor mediating NPY-induced food intake in rats, based on its pharmacological profile and mRNA distribution. To further characterize this important receptor subtype, we isolated the Y5 gene in the guinea pig, a widely used laboratory animal in which all other known...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Lundell I,Eriksson H,Marklund U,Larhammar D

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00