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Query: UNIPROT:P20366 (substance P)
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To investigate the participation of neuropeptides present in the peripheral endings of primary afferent neurons in the inflammatory response, immunoreactive substance P (iSP), calcitonin gene-related peptide (iCGRP) and neurokinin A (iNKA) levels in the s.c. perfusate, and inflammatory response (edema and plasma protein extravasation) evoked in rat paw by noxious stimulation were determined. The effects of these peptides on plasma protein extravasation in the skin of the hind paw of mice were also examined with the pontamine sky blue protein labelling method. The following results were obtained. 1) Immersion of the rat hind paw for 30 min into hot water adjusted to 47 degrees C led to a marked increase in the release of iSP and iCGRP in the subcutaneous perfusate with the formation of thermal edema. 2) Mechanical stimulation (600 g, 10 min) to the hind paw or electrical stimulation of the saphenous and sciatic nerves (10 V, 2 Hz, 1msec duration, 10 min) evoked the increase of iSP release in the perfusate with plasma protein extravasation. 3) iNKA release was not affected by neither heat nor mechanical stimulation. 4) Intraplantar injection of SP, CGRP and NKA induced plasma protein extravasation, the order of potencies being SP greater than CGRP greater than NKA. The action of SP was antagonized by spantide, an SP antagonist. The injection of CGRP with SP produced a synergistic action on plasma protein extravasation. 5) Neonatal pretreatment with capsaicin, which is known to degenerate small-diameter primary afferent neurons, caused the decrease in amount of iSP and iCGRP released during noxious heat stimulation. 6) Pretreatment with Compound 48/80, or stem bromelain and emorphazone, or des-Arg9-[Leu8]-BK, inhibited the iSP release evoked by noxious heat stimulation. 7) Opioids such as morphine (mu-agonist) and ethylketocyclazocine (kappa agonist) inhibited the heat stimulus-evoked iSP release and thermal edema, and the inhibitory effects were antagonized by pretreatment with their antagonists. 8) Morphine or ethylketocyclazocine or [D-Ala2,D-Leu5]-enkephalin (delta-agonist) inhibited the release of iSP evoked by electrical stimulation of the saphenous and sciatic nerves. These results indicate that SP and CGRP present in peripheral endings of small-diameter primary afferent neurons play an important role in the inflammatory response, and that opioids are involved in the regulation of inflammatory response through the inhibition of SP release.
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PMID:[A pharmacological study of the participation of the peripheral endings of primary afferent neurons in the inflammatory response evoked by heat and mechanical noxious stimulation]. 172 88

The stain pontamine sky blue (PSB) has been shown to reduce background autofluorescence in catecholamine fluorescence and immunofluorescence histochemical preparations. Using PSB as a counterstain on whole-mount stretch preparations of human mesenteric blood vessels, a medium dense noradrenergic nerve plexus is clearly revealed, which previously had been only partially visible because of background autofluorescence. Image analysis of nerve densities in whole-mount stretch preparations of guinea-pig arteries containing noradrenergic, substance P-, and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP)-positive nerve plexuses shows that PSB staining does not alter the specific neuronal fluorescence and that it improves image definition.
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PMID:Pontamine sky blue: a counterstain for background autofluorescence in fluorescence and immunofluorescence histochemistry. 258 21

Peptides structurally related to mammalian tachykinins have recently been isolated from the brain and intestine of several insect species, where they are believed to function as both neuromodulators and hormones. Further evidence for the signaling role of insect tachykinin-related peptides was provided by the cloning and characterization of cDNAs for two tachykinin receptors from Drosophila melanogaster. However, no endogenous ligand has been isolated for the Drosophila tachykinin receptors to date. Analysis of the Drosophila genome allowed us to identify a putative tachykinin-related peptide prohormone (prepro-DTK) gene. A 1.5-kilobase pair cDNA amplified from a Drosophila head cDNA library contained an 870-base pair open reading frame, which encodes five novel Drosophila tachykinin-related peptides (called DTK peptides) with conserved C-terminal FXGXR-amide motifs common to other insect tachykinin-related peptides. The tachykinin-related peptide prohormone gene (Dtk) is both expressed and post-translationally processed in larval and adult midgut endocrine cells and in the central nervous system, with midgut expression starting at stage 17 of embryogenesis. The predicted Drosophila tachykinin peptides have potent stimulatory effects on the contractions of insect gut. These data provide additional evidence for the conservation of both the structure and function of the tachykinin peptides in the brain and gut during the course of evolution.
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PMID:Expression and functional characterization of a Drosophila neuropeptide precursor with homology to mammalian preprotachykinin A. 1080 63

The gene Dtk, encoding the prohormone of tachykinin-related peptides (TRPs), has been identified from Drosophila. This gene encodes five putative tachykinin-related peptides (DTK-1 to 5) that share the C-terminal sequence FXGXRamide (where X represents variable residues) as well as an extended peptide (DTK-6) with the C-terminus FVAVRamide). By mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS), we identified ion signals with masses identical to those of DTK-1 to 5 in specific brain regions. We have analyzed the distribution of the Dtk transcript and peptides, by in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry during postembryonic development of the central nervous system (CNS) of Drosophila. Antiserum against a cockroach TRP that cross-reacts with the DTKs was used for immunocytochemistry. Expression of transcript and peptides was detected from first to third instar larvae, through metamorphosis to adult flies. Throughout postembryonic development, we were able to follow the strong expression of TRPs in a pair of large descending neurons with cell bodies in the brain. The number of TRP-expressing neuronal cell bodies in the brain and ventral nerve cord increases during larval development. In the early pupa (stage P8), the number of TRP-expressing cell bodies is lower than in the third instar larvae. The number drastically increases during later pupal development, and in the adult fly about 200 TRP-expressing neurons can be seen in the CNS. The continuous expression of TRPs in neurons throughout postembryonic development suggests specific functional roles in both larval and imaginal flies and possibly also in some neurons during pupal development.
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PMID:Neuronal expression of tachykinin-related peptides and gene transcript during postembryonic development of Drosophila. 1289 11