The long and the short of it–a perspective on peptidergic regulation of circuits and behaviour

G Jékely, S Melzer, I Beets… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
Neuropeptides are a diverse family of signalling molecules … They are short chain-length
peptides that are synthesized by … same neuropeptide or different types of neuropeptides within …

Neuropeptides in the nervous system of Drosophila and other insects: multiple roles as neuromodulators and neurohormones

DR Nässel - Progress in neurobiology, 2002 - Elsevier
… The distribution and possible functions of members of the 23 neuropeptide families and
the insulin-like peptides are discussed. It is clear that each of the distinct neuropeptides are …

Neuropeptides as regulators of airway function: vasoactive intestinal peptide and the tachykinins.

CA Maggi, A Giachetti, RD Dey… - Physiological …, 1995 - journals.physiology.org
neuropeptides have been identified in the lung, or otherwise have been found to influence
its function (182- 184, 474, 514; Table 1). Most of these peptides are neuropeptides, ie, they …

Central nervous system effects of the neurohypophyseal hormones and related peptides

D de Wied, M Diamant, M Fodor - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 1993 - Elsevier
neuropeptides discusses recent data illustrating the significance of these principles in brain
function, … Other hitherto unknown peptides were found in the brain, such as neuropeptide Y, …

Functional characterization of mosquito short neuropeptide F receptors

P Christ, SR Hill, J Schachtner, F Hauser, R Ignell - Peptides, 2018 - Elsevier
neuropeptide Y-like receptor 1, NPYLR1 (VectorBase ID: AAEL013505), the receptor has a
lower affinity to Head Peptide-I (… This suggests that short neuropeptide F signaling may not be …

Short neuropeptide F acts as a functional neuromodulator for olfactory memory in Kenyon cells of Drosophila mushroom bodies

S Knapek, L Kahsai, ÅME Winther… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
… Here we show that a neuropeptide precursor gene encoding four types of short neuropeptide
F … Within the lobe regions sNPF peptide is distributed in a punctate fashion in the lobes and …

Neuropeptide regulators of juvenile hormone synthesis: structures, functions, distribution, and unanswered questions

RJ Weaver, N Audsley - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… FGLamide neuropeptide precursor and predicted peptides and to confirmation of peptides
… 1), the honey bee FGLamide precursor comprises five typical FGLamide peptide sequences…

Neuropeptide FF, pain and analgesia

M Roumy, JM Zajac - European journal of pharmacology, 1998 - Elsevier
peptides such as neuropeptide FF should be considered as tonic modulators of opioid functions
agents able to modulate endogenous opioid function and amplify analgesic opioid effects…

Evolution of vertebrate neuropeptides

S Holmgren, J Jensen - Brain research bulletin, 2001 - Elsevier
… number of peptides (and short sequence proteins) with a number of different functions.
However, we usually give the word a more restricted meaning: A neuropeptide is a peptide that …

Drosophila short neuropeptide F signalling regulates growth by ERK-mediated insulin signalling

KS Lee, OY Kwon, JH Lee, K Kwon, KJ Min… - Nature cell …, 2008 - nature.com
peptides (Dilps) are produced by specialized neurons in the brain 3,6 . Here we show that
Drosophila short neuropeptide … these neuropeptides control expression of insulin-like peptides