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Discovery of sea urchin NGFFFamide receptor unites a bilaterian neuropeptide family [PDF]
Open Biology, 2015 Neuropeptides are ancient regulators of physiology and behaviour, but reconstruction of neuropeptide evolution is often difficult owing to lack of sequence conservation.
Dean C. Semmens +5 more
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Neurobiology of Disease, 2012 We recently demonstrated that recombinant adeno-associated viral vector-induced hippocampal overexpression of neuropeptide Y receptor, Y2, exerts a seizure-suppressant effect in kindling and kainate-induced models of epilepsy in rats.
Casper R. Gøtzsche +8 more
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Neuropeptides and Neuropeptide Receptors in the Drosophila melanogaster Genome [PDF]
Genome Research, 2001 Recent genetic analyses in worms, flies, and mammals illustrate the importance of bioactive peptides in controlling numerous complex behaviors, such as feeding and circadian locomotion. To pursue a comprehensive genetic analysis of bioactive peptide signaling, we have scanned the recently completed Drosophila genome sequence for G protein-coupled ...
R S, Hewes, P H, Taghert
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Transcriptome of the female synganglion of the black-legged tick Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) with comparison between Illumina and 454 systems. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Illumina and 454 pyrosequencing were used to characterize genes from the synganglion of female Ixodes scapularis. GO term searching success for biological processes was similar for samples sequenced by both methods.
Noble Egekwu +3 more
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Echinoderms provide missing link in the evolution of PrRP/sNPF-type neuropeptide signalling
eLife, 2020 Neuropeptide signalling systems comprising peptide ligands and cognate receptors are evolutionarily ancient regulators of physiology and behaviour.
Luis Alfonso Yañez-Guerra +7 more
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More than two decades of research on insect neuropeptide GPCRs: an overview
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2012 This review focuses on the state of the art on neuropeptide receptors in insects. Most of these receptors are G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and are involved in the regulation of virtually all physiological processes during an insect’s life.
Jelle eCaers +5 more
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NPBWR1 and NPBWR2: implications in energy homeostasis, pain, and emotion
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2013 Neuropeptide B/W receptor 1 (NPBWR1) and NPBWR2 had been known as orphan receptors GPR7 and 8, respectively. Endogenous peptide ligands of these receptors, neuropeptide B and neuropeptide W, were identified in 2002 and 2003 (1-3).
Takeshi eSakurai
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BMC Biology, 2022 Background Kisspeptins are neuropeptides that regulate reproductive maturation in mammals via G-protein-coupled receptor-mediated stimulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone secretion from the hypothalamus.
Nayeli Escudero Castelán +10 more
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Structure and function of neuropeptide F in insects
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2020 Insect neuropeptides are a group of brain neuro-regulatory factors, which plays very important roles in growth and development, molting and metamorphosis, as well as mating and reproduction.
Hong-ying CUI, Zhang-wu ZHAO
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Evolutionary origin of GnIH and NPFF in chordates: insights from novel amphioxus RFamide peptides.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone (GnIH) is a newly identified hypothalamic neuropeptide that inhibits pituitary hormone secretion in vertebrates. GnIH has an LPXRFamide (X = L or Q) motif at the C-terminal in representative species of gnathostomes. On the
Tomohiro Osugi +6 more
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