Homeostatic scaling of dynorphin signaling by a non-canonical opioid receptor [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe endogenous opioid system provides powerful control over emotions, nociception, and motivation among many other fundamental nervous system functions.
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Enhanced dynorphin expression and secretion in pancreatic beta-cells under hyperglycemic conditions [PDF]
Molecular MetabolismObjective: Dynorphin, an endogenous opioid peptide predominantly expressed in the central nervous system and involved in stress response, pain, and addiction, has intrigued researchers due to its expression in pancreatic β-cells.
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Microiontophoretic Application of Dynorphin in Dental Pain: Excitatory or Inhibitory Effects [PDF]
Journal of Pain ResearchSeung-Ho Choi,* Yu-Mi Kim,* Jo-Young Son, Dong-Kuk Ahn Department of Oral Physiology, School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Dong-Kuk Ahn, Department of ...
Choi SH, Kim YM, Son JY, Ahn DK
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Co‐Expression of Tardive Dyskinesia and Drug‐Induced Parkinsonism in Rats Chronically Treated With Haloperidol [PDF]
Neuropsychopharmacology ReportsAim We aimed to create a rat model of drug‐induced parkinsonism and tardive dyskinesia by chronic administration of haloperidol and examine the expression of direct and indirect pathway markers in the striatum of the model rats.
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A quantitative study of neurochemically-defined populations of inhibitory interneurons in the superficial dorsal horn of the mouse spinal cord [PDF]
, 2017 Around a quarter of neurons in laminae I-II of the dorsal horn are inhibitory interneurons. These play an important role in modulating somatosensory information, including that perceived as pain or itch.
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Neurobiology of Disease, 2006 Up to 89% of patients with herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1) encephalitis can have seizures. Possibly, viruses are environmental triggers for seizures in genetically vulnerable individuals. Inherited dynorphin promoter polymorphisms are associated with
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Morphological evidence for enhanced kisspeptin and neurokinin B signaling in the infundibular nucleus of the aging man. [PDF]
, 2012 Peptidergic neurons synthesizing kisspeptin (KP) and neurokinin B (NKB) in the hypothalamic infundibular nucleus have been implicated in negative sex steroid feedback to GnRH neurons. In laboratory rodents, testosterone decreases KP and NKB expression in
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Identifying functional populations among the interneurons in laminae I-III of the spinal dorsal horn [PDF]
, 2017 The spinal dorsal horn receives input from primary afferent axons, which terminate in a modality-specific fashion in different laminae. The incoming somatosensory information is processed through complex synaptic circuits involving excitatory and ...
Todd, Andrew J.
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The organisation of spinoparabrachial neurons in the mouse [PDF]
, 2015 The anterolateral tract (ALT), which originates from neurons in lamina I and the deep dorsal horn, represents a major ascending output through which nociceptive information is transmitted to brain areas involved in pain perception.
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The Opioid Peptide Dynorphin a Induces Leukocyte Responses via Integrin Mac-1 (αβ, CD11b/CD18)
Molecular Pain, 2015 Background Opioid peptides, including dynorphin A, besides their analgesic action in the nervous system, exert a broad spectrum of effects on cells of the immune system, including leukocyte migration, degranulation and cytokine production. The mechanisms
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