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An opioid-like system regulating feeding behavior in C. elegans [PDF]

open access: yeseLife, 2015
Neuropeptides are essential for the regulation of appetite. Here we show that neuropeptides could regulate feeding in mutants that lack neurotransmission from the motor neurons that stimulate feeding muscles. We identified nlp-24 by an RNAi screen of 115
Mi Cheong Cheong   +3 more
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Differential Changes in Expression of Stress- and Metabolic-related Neuropeptides in the Rat Hypothalamus during Morphine Dependence and Withdrawal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Chronic morphine treatment and naloxone precipitated morphine withdrawal activates stress-related brain circuit and results in significant changes in food intake, body weight gain and energy metabolism.
Ferenczi, Szilamér   +6 more
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Fear, love, and the origins of canid domestication: An oxytocin hypothesis

open access: yesComprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2022
The process of dog domestication likely involved at least two functional stages. The initial stage occurred when subpopulations of wolves became synanthropes, benefiting from life nearby or in human environments. The second phase was characterized by the
Yury E. Herbeck   +3 more
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A tool kit of highly selective and sensitive genetically encoded neuropeptide sensors

open access: yesScience, 2023
Neuropeptides are key signaling molecules in the endocrine and nervous systems that regulate many critical physiological processes. Understanding the functions of neuropeptides in vivo requires the ability to monitor their dynamics with high specificity,
Huan Wang   +27 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Oxytocinergic Feedback Circuitries: An Anatomical Basis for Neuromodulation of Social Behaviors

open access: yesFrontiers in Neural Circuits, 2021
Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide produced by hypothalamic neurons and is known to modulate social behavior among other functions. Several experiments have shown that OT modulates neuronal activity in many brain areas, including sensory cortices.
Arthur Lefevre   +6 more
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Neuropeptide System Regulation of Prefrontal Cortex Circuitry: Implications for Neuropsychiatric Disorders

open access: yesFrontiers in Neural Circuits, 2022
Neuropeptides, a diverse class of signaling molecules in the nervous system, modulate various biological effects including membrane excitability, synaptic transmission and synaptogenesis, gene expression, and glial cell architecture and function. To date,
Sanne M. Casello   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bee-safe peptidomimetic acaricides achieved by comparative genomics

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
The devastating Varroa mite (Varroa destructor Anderson and Trueman) is an obligatory ectoparasite of the honey bee, contributing to significant colony losses in North America and throughout the world.
Vikas Jindal   +14 more
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Efficiency of cell-type specific and generic promoters in transducing oxytocin neurons and monitoring their neural activity during lactation

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Hypothalamic oxytocin (OXT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) neurons have been at the center of several physiological and behavioral studies. Advances in viral vector biology and the development of transgenic rodent models have allowed for targeted gene ...
Keerthi Thirtamara Rajamani   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Role of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in anxiety disorders

open access: yesStress and Brain, 2022
The hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) expresses multiple neuropeptides and plays an essential role in several physiological processes. Among the brain areas directly projecting to the PVN are deep brain structures closely related to instinctive ...
Chen Wu, Mario A. Zetter
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