An international team of researchers has discovered a new component of the peripheral nervous system that acts by increasing ...

A neuropeptide helps starfish shed their arms to escape predators, providing clues about the mechanisms regulating ...

A team of scientists led by Professor Annette Beck-Sickinger from the Institute of Biochemistry at Leipzig University has ...

Researchers have identified a natural substance, hederagenin, that blocks the NPFFR1 receptor, a protein involved in pain perception in the brain and spinal cord.

Wegner, S, Belle, MDC, Chang, PS, Hughes, ATL, Conibear, AE, Muir, C, Samuels, RE and Piggins, HD (2024) Loss of neuropeptide ...

This is not an impartial review. Having long been a convert to the view that the neuropeptide oxytocin is of great importance in social and reproductive behavior and emotions, I am sympathetic to ...

Using this strategy, I have matched two orphan GPCRs with their ligands–GPR107 with the neuropeptide neuronostatin, and GPR146 with the connecting peptide, or C-peptide, of pro-insulin. My overall ...

The best characterized pathways are the orexigenic neuropeptide Y/Agouti-related protein and the anorexigenic pro-opiomelanocortin/cocaine- and amphetamine-related transcript neurons in the ...