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Editorial: Kappa opioid receptors revealed: Disentangling the pharmacology to open up new therapeutic strategies [PDF]

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Wendy Margaret Walwyn, Marta Valenza
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Effect of PDYN rs2281285, rs2235749 and rs910080 gene polymorphisms on the intensity of depression symptoms and negative craving in heroin addicts [PDF]

Archives of Biological Sciences, 2021
The present study was undertaken to explore whether prodynorphin (PDYN) polymorphisms have an effect on the intensity of depressive symptoms and negative craving in heroin addicts in a sample of 100 heroin addicts and 108 controls.
Kaya-Akyüzlü Dilek, Özkan-Kotiloğlu Selin, Yalçın-Şahiner Şafak, Ayaz Nagihan   +3 more
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Epigenetic and Transcriptional Control of the Opioid Prodynorphine Gene: In-Depth Analysis in the Human Brain

Molecules, 2021
Neuropeptides serve as neurohormones and local paracrine regulators that control neural networks regulating behavior, endocrine system and sensorimotor functions. Their expression is characterized by exceptionally restricted profiles.
Olga Nosova, Igor Bazov, Victor Karpyak, Mathias Hallberg, Georgy Bakalkin   +4 more
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Challenges and new opportunities for detecting endogenous opioid peptides in reward

Addiction Neuroscience, 2022
The endogenous opioid peptide system, comprised of enkephalins, endorphins, dynorphins, and nociceptin, is a highly complex neurobiological system. Opioid peptides are derived from four precursor molecules and undergo several processing events yielding ...
Sineadh M. Conway, Marwa O. Mikati, Ream Al-Hasani   +2 more
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Involvement of the Opioid Peptide Family in Cancer Progression

Biomedicines, 2023
Peptides mediate cancer progression favoring the mitogenesis, migration, and invasion of tumor cells, promoting metastasis and anti-apoptotic mechanisms, and facilitating angiogenesis/lymphangiogenesis.
Manuel Lisardo Sánchez, Francisco D. Rodríguez, Rafael Coveñas   +2 more
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Dynorphin, stress, and depression [PDF]

Brain Research, 2010
Stress is most often associated with aversive states. It rapidly induces the release of hormones and neuropeptides including dynorphin, which activates kappa opioid receptors (KORs) in the central and peripheral nervous systems. In animal models, many aversive effects of stress are mimicked or exacerbated by stimulation of KORs in limbic brain regions.
Allison T, Knoll, William A, Carlezon
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Avian opioid peptides: evolutionary considerations, functional roles and a challenge to address critical questions

Frontiers 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 Pierzchała-Koziec, Colin G. Scanes   +1 more
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Endogenous opioid systems alterations in pain and opioid use disorder

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022
Decades of research advances have established a central role for endogenous opioid systems in regulating reward processing, mood, motivation, learning and memory, gastrointestinal function, and pain relief.
Jessica A. Higginbotham, Jessica A. Higginbotham, Jessica A. Higginbotham, Tamara Markovic, Nicolas Massaly, Nicolas Massaly, Nicolas Massaly, Jose A. Morón, Jose A. Morón, Jose A. Morón, Jose A. Morón, Jose A. Morón   +11 more
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Optogenetic stimulation of dynorphinergic neurons within the dorsal raphe activate kappa opioid receptors in the ventral tegmental area and ablation of dorsal raphe prodynorphin or kappa receptors in dopamine neurons blocks stress potentiation of cocaine reward

Addiction Neuroscience, 2022
Behavioral stress exposure increases the risk of drug-taking in individuals with substance use disorders by mechanisms involving the dynorphins, which are the endogenous neuropeptides for the kappa opioid receptor (KOR).
Antony D. Abraham, Sanne M. Casello, Benjamin B. Land, Charles Chavkin   +3 more
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Simultaneous mass spectrometry imaging of multiple neuropeptides in the brain and alterations induced by experimental parkinsonism and L-DOPA therapy

Neurobiology of Disease, 2020
Neuropeptides are important signalling molecules in the brain and alterations in their expression levels have been linked to neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease. It is challenging to map neuropeptide changes across and within brain regions
Heather Hulme, Elva Fridjonsdottir, Halla Gunnarsdottir, Theodosia Vallianatou, Xiaoqun Zhang, Henrik Wadensten, Reza Shariatgorji, Anna Nilsson, Erwan Bezard, Per Svenningsson, Per E. Andrén   +10 more
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