Interaction of agonist peptide [3H]Tyr-D-Ala-Phe-Phe-NH2 with mu-opioid receptor in rat brain and CHO-mu/1 cell line.

abstract：:The relationship between gallbladder (GB) bile concentration and motility was studied in conscious dogs. The 12-h GB bile concentrations between meals could be divided into three periods: diluting, minimum, and concentrating periods. During the diluting period, inhibition of GB contractions by a CCKA receptor antagoni...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Muramatsu S,Sonobe K,Mizumoto A,Yamada T,Itoh Z

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extractability of neurotensin (NT) from porcine ileal mucosa was studied by comparison of eight extraction procedures. Tissue content of neurotensin-like immunoreactivity was quantitated and characterized by sequence-specific radioimmunoassays and gel filtration chromatography. Homogenization prior to boiling in e...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Yamashita Y,Holst Pedersen J,Stadil F

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) is a neuropeptide present in high concentrations in the hippocampus. The studies reported here demonstrate that VIP administered into the third ventricle of the brain caused amnesia in mice trained on a left-right footshock avoidance task in a T-maze. VIP resulted in amnesia when ad...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Flood JF,Garland JS,Morley JE

更新日期：1990-09-01 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：:Effects of spantide ([D-Arg1,D-Trp7,9,Leu11]substance P) on coronary resistance vessels were studied in isolated guinea pig hearts perfused at constant rate with isotonic buffer containing 20 or 40 mM KCl. Spantide (1 microM) caused a 20-fold rightward shift of the substance P (SP) dose-response curve for vasodilation...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Hoover DB

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STKR is a neurokinin receptor derived from the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. Insect tachykinin-related peptides, also referred to as "insectatachykinins", produce dose-dependent calcium and cyclic AMP responses in cultured Drosophila melanogaster Schneider 2 (S2) cells that were stably transfected with the cloned S...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Poels J,Nachman RJ,Akerman KE,Oonk HB,Guerrero F,De Loof A,Janecka AE,Torfs H,Vanden Broeck J

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:The interindividual variability of the hydrolysis of leucine enkephalin, and of the formation of its hydrolysis by-products has been studied in human plasma. In agreement with known data, the data obtained indicate that Leu-enkephalin is degraded by several enzymes, belonging to three classes: aminopeptidases, dipepti...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Marini M,Urbani A,Trani E,Bongiorno L,Roda LG

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GIP receptor knockout mice were shown to be protected from the development of obesity on a high fat diet, suggesting a role of GIP in the development of obesity. In our study we aimed to test the hypothesis if excess of GIP could accelerate development of obesity and to identify GIP gene targets in adipose tissue. The...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Szalowska E,Meijer K,Kloosterhuis N,Razaee F,Priebe M,Vonk RJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute treatment of rats with haloperidol results in a rapid and transient increase in striatal c-fos mRNA and Fos immunoreactivity. The induction of immediate early genes by haloperidol may be involved in the development of extrapyramidal side effects. L-Prolyl-L-leucyl-glycinamide (PLG, or MIF-1) has been observed to...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ott MC,Costain WJ,Mishra RK,Johnson RL

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：:The chronic hyperglycemia measured alongside diabetes development is associated with significant long-term damage and failure of various organs. In the present study it was shown that hyperglycemia induced early and long term increases in nitric oxide (NO) levels, kallikrein activity and vascular capillary permeabilit...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Catanzaro O,Labal E,Andornino A,Capponi JA,Di Martino I,Sirois P

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro pepsin treatment of plasma proteins generates biologically active peptides such as enkephalin-related peptides. These peptides were characterized using chromatographic techniques along with a radioimmunoassay procedure involving the use of Leu-enkephalin and Met-enkephalin antisera. Serum albumin is the only ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Garreau I,Pejoan C,Bressollier P,Verneuil B,Cucumel K,Cupo A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suppression subtractive hybridization comparing brains from diapausing and nondiapausing pupae of the flesh fly, Sarcophaga crassipalpis, suggested that the gene encoding neuropeptide-like precursor 4 (Nplp4) was uniquely expressed during diapause. We have sequenced the full-length cDNA encoding Nplp4 and used Norther...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Li A,Rinehart JP,Denlinger DL

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatostatin has been proposed as a regulatory peptide of nutrient entry and fuel homeostasis because of its ability to inhibit the release of substances involved in food digestion and metabolism. The aim of the study was to evaluate the somatostatin response to a test meal in type I diabetics at the clinical onset of...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Uccioli L,Ghirlanda G,Cotroneo P,Bianchini G,Manto A,Solini A,Annese V,Greco AV

更新日期：1986-01-01 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 in vitro activity of six polycationic peptides, buforin II, cecropin P1, indolicidin, magainin II, nisin, and ranalexin, were evaluated against several clinical isolates of gram-positive and gram-negative aerobic bacteria, yeasts, Pneumocystis carinii and Cryptosporidium parvum, by using microbroth dilution method...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Giacometti A,Cirioni O,Barchiesi F,Del Prete MS,Scalise G

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an immunohistochemical study, a specific antiserum raised against [D-Ala2]deltorphin-I (DADTI), a highly selective ligand for delta opioid receptors, was used to demonstrate immunoreactive structures in the rat retina. [D-Ala2]Deltorphin-I immunoreactivity occurred in a subpopulation of the retinal amacrine cells s...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Abe H,Tooyama I,Renda T,Erspamer V,Kimura H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bombesin is a tetradecapeptide heterogenously distributed in the mammalian brain. Bombesin (45 micrograms) given intracisternally (IC) to unanesthetized rats increased the accumulation of dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA) in striatum, olfactory tubercles and hypothalamus after DOPA-decarboxylase inhibition, thus indicatin...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Widerlöv E,Mueller RA,Frye GD,Breese GR

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discovering the informational rule(s) underlying structure-function relationships in the protein language is at the core of biology. Current theories have proven inadequate to explain the origins of biological information such as that found in nucleotide and amino acid sequences. Here, we demonstrate that the informat...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Kanduc D

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outbreak caused by 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was first identified in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. The new virus was later named SARS-CoV-2. The virus has affected tens of thousands of patients in the world. The infection of SARS-CoV-2 causes severe pneumonia and even death. It is urgently needed to f...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ling R,Dai Y,Huang B,Huang W,Yu J,Lu X,Jiang Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An antifungal peptide with a molecular mass of 9 kDa was isolated from fresh fruiting bodies of the mushroom Agrocybe cylindracea. The isolation procedure comprised ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, affinity chromatography on Affi-gel blue gel, ion exchange chromatography by fast protein liquid chromatogr...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Ngai PH,Zhao Z,Ng TB

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of synthetic Manduca sexta allatostatin (Manse-AS) and allatotropin (Manse-AT), by enzymes of the foregut of larvae of the tomato moth, Lacanobia oleracea was investigated using reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) together with matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-tim...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Audsley N,Weaver RJ,Edwards JP

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gastrin-releasing peptide receptor (GRPR) has been implicated in the modulation of emotionally-motivated memory. In the present study, we investigated the role of the GRPR on non-emotional, non-associative memory, and anxiety. Adult male Wistar rats were given a systemic injection of the GRPR antagonist [D-Tpi6, L...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Martins MR,Reinke A,Valvassori SS,Machado RA,Quevedo J,Schwartsmann G,Roesler R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urocortin (Ucn) 1, 2 and 3 are corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)-related peptides recently characterized in mammals. Urocortin 1 binds with high affinity to CRF type 1 (CRF1) and type 2 (CRF2) receptors while Ucn 2 and Ucn 3 are selective CRF2 ligands. They also have a distinct pattern of distribution, both in the ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Martinez V,Wang L,Million M,Rivier J,Taché Y

更新日期：2004-10-01 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：: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：:During a systemic search for peptides that possess the C-terminal amide structure, a novel heptapeptide with isoleucine amide was isolated from bovine serum by sequential steps of reversed phase HPLC. Microsequence and amino acid analyses revealed the structure: Asp-Thr-His-Lys-Ser-Glu-Ile-NH2. Since this peptide has ...

journal_title：Peptides

authors： Takamatsu K,Tatemoto K

更新日期：1991-03-01 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：: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