Des-acyl ghrelin (DAG) is one of the three preproghrelin gene-encoded peptides. Compared
with ghrelin and obestatin, it has not received the attention it deserves. DAG has long been …

Although the etiology of vascular dysfunction in diabetes has been extensively investigated
in both humans as well as animal models of human diabetes, the relative importance of the …

The peptides ghrelin (or acyl ghrelin; AG), des-acyl ghrelin (DAG) and obestatin are all
encoded by the prepro-ghrelin gene that is expressed predominantly in the stomach …

The current study aimed to compare the effects of the peptide hormone ghrelin and des-G,
its unacylated isoform, on glucose and fatty acid uptake and to identify des-G-specific …

Desacyl-ghrelin is a form of ghrelin which lacks acyl-modification of the third serine residue
of ghrelin. Originally, desacyl-ghrelin was considered to be just an inactive form of ghrelin …

In larger mammals, thyroid hormone-binding plasma proteins are albumin, transthyretin
(TTR) and thyroxine (T4)-binding globulin. They differ characteristically in affinities and …

Oligopeptide derivatives of metenkephalin were found to stimulate growth‐hormone (GH)
release directly by pituitary somatotrope cells in vitro in 1977. Members of this class of …

The ghrelin-related peptides, acylated ghrelin, des-acylated ghrelin, and obestatin, are
novel gastrointestinal hormones. We firstly investigated whether the ghrelin gene, ghrelin O …

Background We have previously demonstrated that a centrally penetrant ghrelin receptor
agonist enhances colorectal motility, through activation of the lumbo‐sacral defecation …

Unacylated ghrelin (UnGhr) exerts several beneficial actions on vascular function. The aim
of this study was to assess the effects of UnGhr on high-fat induced endothelial dysfunction …