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Sulfakinins reduce food intake in the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria.
Zhu Wei,Geert Baggerman,Ronald J. Nachman,Graham J. Goldsworthy,Peter Verhaert,Arnold De Loof,Liliane Schoofs +6 more
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Insect sulfakinins, peptides which display substantial sequence similarities with the vertebrate gastrin/CCK peptide family, significantly inhibit food uptake in fifth instar nymphs of the locust, Schistocerca gregaria.About:
This article is published in Journal of Insect Physiology.The article was published on 2000-09-01. It has received 126 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Schistocerca & Locust.read more
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Neuropeptides in the nervous system of Drosophila and other insects: multiple roles as neuromodulators and neurohormones.
TL;DR: Drosophila, in spite of its small size, is now emerging as a very favorable organism for the studies of neuropeptide function due to the arsenal of molecular genetics methods available.
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Drosophila neuropeptides in regulation of physiology and behavior
Dick R. Nässel,Åsa M. E. Winther +1 more
TL;DR: An overview of the physiological and behavioral roles of peptide signaling in Drosophila include regulation of development, growth, feeding, metabolism, reproduction, homeostasis, and longevity, as well as neuromodulation in learning and memory, olfaction and locomotor control.
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A review of neurohormone GPCRs present in the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster and the honey bee Apis mellifera.
Frank Hauser,Giuseppe Cazzamali,Michael Williamson,Wolfgang Blenau,Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen +4 more
TL;DR: A review of the current knowledge on Drosophila melanogaster GPCRs is given and information is used to annotate the neurohormone GPCR genes present in the recently sequenced genome from the honey bee Apis mellifera, finding 35 neuropeptide receptor genes in the Honey bee and two genes, coding for leucine-rich repeats-containing protein hormone GPCRG.
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Regulatory peptides in fruit fly midgut
TL;DR: Using a combination of specific antisera to these peptides and transgenic fly models, it was shown that the endocrine cells in the adult Drosophila midgut produced exclusively NPF.
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Peptidomics of the larval Drosophila melanogaster central nervous system.
TL;DR: This study analyzed the peptidome of the larval Drosophila central nervous system at the amino acid sequence level and provided biochemical evidence for the presence of 28 neuropeptides, including 18 encoded in previously cloned or annotated precursor genes, although not all of them were predicted correctly.
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Structure of locust adipokinetic hormone, a neurohormone that regulates lipid utilisation during flight
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Leucosulfakinin, a sulfated insect neuropeptide with homology to gastrin and cholecystokinin.
TL;DR: The peptide exhibits sequence homology with the hormonally active portion of the vertebrate hormones human gastrin II and cholecystokinin, suggesting that these peptides are evolutionarily related.