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Orexin (Hypocretin) Neurons Contain Dynorphin [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Neuroscience, 2001
Orexins (also called hypocretins) are peptide neurotransmitters expressed in neurons of the lateral hypothalamic area (LHA). Mice lacking the orexin peptides develop narcolepsy-like symptoms, whereas mice with a selective loss of the orexin neurons develop hypophagia and severe obesity in addition to the narcolepsy phenotype. These different phenotypes
T C, Chou   +11 more
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Endogenous dynorphin protects against neurotoxin-elicited nigrostriatal dopaminergic neuron damage and motor deficits in mice

open access: yesJournal of Neuroinflammation, 2012
Background The striato-nigral projecting pathway contains the highest concentrations of dynorphin in the brain. The functional role of this opioid peptide in the regulation of mesencephalic dopaminergic (DAergic) neurons is not clear.
Wang Qingshan   +8 more
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Acute Wheel-Running Increases Markers of Stress and Aversion-Related Signaling in the Basolateral Amygdala of Male Rats

open access: yesJournal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2022
Physical activity (PA) is a non-invasive, cost-effective means of reducing chronic disease. Most US citizens fail to meet PA guidelines, and individuals experiencing chronic stress are less likely to be physically active.
Kolter B. Grigsby   +5 more
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Functional Characterization of Spinocerebellar Ataxia Associated Dynorphin A Mutant Peptides

open access: yesBiomedicines, 2021
Mutations in the prodynorphin gene (PDYN) are associated with the development of spinocerebellar ataxia type 23 (SCA23). Pathogenic missense mutations are localized predominantly in the PDYN region coding for the dynorphin A (DynA) neuropeptide and lead ...
Andreas Lieb   +6 more
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Ester hydrolysis differentially reduces aconitine-induced anti-hypersensitivity and acute neurotoxicity: Involvement of spinal microglial dynorphin expression and implications for Aconitum processing

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2016
Aconitines, including bulleyaconitine A, probably the most bioactive and abundant alkaloids in Aconitum plant, are a group of diester C19-diterpenoid alkaloids with one acetylester group attached to C8 of the diterpenoid skeleton and one benzoylester ...
Teng-Fei Li, Yong-Xiang Wang, Nian Gong
doaj   +1 more source

Avian opioid peptides: evolutionary considerations, functional roles and a challenge to address critical questions

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2023
The present review considers the putative hormonal opioid peptides in birds. In birds and all other vertebrates, there are four opioid related genes encoding a series of peptides.
Krystyna PierzchaƂa-Koziec   +1 more
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Estradiol treatment prevents injury induced enhancement in spinal cord dynorphin expression.

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2012
Administration of the ovarian steroid estradiol in male and female animals has been shown to have neuromodulatory and neuroprotective effects in a variety of experimental models. In the present study, spinal tissues from dermatomes just above (T5-7, at
Daya S. Gupta, Charles H. Hubscher
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Afferent Neuronal Control of Type-I Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Neurons in the Human. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Understanding the regulation of the human menstrual cycle represents an important ultimate challenge of reproductive neuroendocrine research. However, direct translation of information from laboratory animal experiments to the human is often complicated ...
Hrabovszky, Erik, Liposits, Zsolt
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Isolation and amino acid sequence analysis of a 4,000-dalton dynorphin from porcine pituitary [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
A 4,000-dalton dynorphin was isolated from porcine pituitary. It has 32 amino acids (Mr = 3,986), with the previously described heptadecapeptide (now called dynorphin A) at its amino terminus and a related tridecapeptide, dynorphin B, at its carboxyl ...
Fischli, Walter   +3 more
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Des-tyrosine-dynorphin antagonizes morphine analgesia [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Pharmacology, 1982
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/23809/1/0000047 ...
Walker, J. Michael   +4 more
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