Orphan neuropeptides and receptors: Novel therapeutic targets

LD Fricker, LA Devi - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
… are the opiates, including natural products such as morphine as well … pathways (such as
arrestin-mediated signaling pathways). … The modulation of neuropeptide signaling can occur via …

Alanine scan of sialorphin and its hybrids with opiorphin: synthesis, molecular modelling and effect on enkephalins degradation

M Sobocińska, A Giełdoń, J Fichna, E Kamysz - Amino Acids, 2018 - Springer
Opiorphin (Gln–Arg–Phe–Ser–Arg) is a human endogenous … various pathways in the
mammalian body. For instance, … It displays a potent, naloxone-sensitive antinociceptive effect in …

Bioactive peptides hidden in human salivary proteins

E Saitoh, M Taniguchi, A Ochiai, T Kato, A Imai… - Journal of Oral …, 2017 - Elsevier
opiorphin family plays the role of a natural antinoceptive modulator of opioid-dependent
pathways by inhibiting two enkephalin-catabolizing ectoenzymes, human ectoaminopeptidase (…

Expression of salivary immunoglobulins and their association with analgesic neuropeptide opiorphin in anorexia nervosa during adolescence

E Paszynska, A Hernik, A Slopien, Y Boucher… - Journal of Eating …, 2022 - Springer
… Specifically, their modulation may affect melanocortin four receptor … The levels of the
antinociceptive and inflammatory … Exploring the nature of this relationship might be interesting …

[PDF][PDF] Replacement of current opioid drugs focusing on MOR-related strategies

N Authier, A Eschalier - 2020 - academia.edu
… detection, transmission and modulation of pain messages and … as a new pharmacological
pathway. Clinical studies should … an antinociceptive effect similar to that of morphine but lesser …

B2-kinin receptors in the dorsal periaqueductal gray are implicated in the panicolytic-like effect of opiorphin

CC Sestile, JC Maraschin, MP Rangel… - Progress in Neuro …, 2017 - Elsevier
… A promising option is opiorphin, a pentapeptide that was first isolated from human saliva.
Opiorphin impairs the degradation of endogenous enkephalins by inhibiting a neutral …

m-Trifluoromethyl-diphenyl diselenide promotes resilience to social avoidance induced by social defeat stress in mice: Contribution of opioid receptors and MAPKs

SG Rosa, AP Pesarico, CW Nogueira - Progress in Neuro …, 2018 - Elsevier
… These results suggest that the modulation of protein contents of … natural social interaction
between mice. The molecular findings suggest that this effect is mediated through modulation

Exploring polar hydrophobicity in organized media for extracting oligopeptides: application to the extraction of opiorphin in human saliva

F Accioni, D García-Gómez, S Rubio - Journal of Chromatography A, 2021 - Elsevier
… to the extraction of opiorphin in human saliva prior to its quantification by LC-MS/MS.
Opiorphin, a pentapeptide first isolated in 2006 from human saliva, is a natural enkephalin with a …

[HTML][HTML] PROL1 is essential for xenograft tumor development in mice injected with the human prostate cancer cell-line, LNCaP, and modulates cell migration and …

A Mukherjee, A Park, KP Davies - Journal of men's health, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… on the biological activity of opiorphins and the molecular pathways regulated by PROL1 …
that opiorphin directly regulates vascular smooth muscle tone with dysregulated opiorphin

Aplysia allatotropin-related peptide and its newly identified d-amino acid–containing epimer both activate a receptor and a neuronal target

JW Checco, G Zhang, W Yuan, Z Le, J Jing… - Journal of Biological …, 2018 - ASBMB
l- to d-residue isomerization is a post-translational modification (PTM) present in neuropeptides,
peptide hormones, and peptide toxins from several animals. In most cases, the d-…