The podocyte is one of the main components of the glomerular filtration barrier in the kidney, and its injury may contribute to proteinuria, glomerulo......
Sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction is a major cause of death. The present study explored whether angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7), an important biologically......
Neuropeptide CCHamide-2 is a recently discovered peptide presents in many arthropods and it is the ligand of the CCHamide-2 receptor (CCHa2-R), which ......
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major pathogen responsible for community and hospital bacterial infections. In the present stu......
Glucose curve shapes during oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTTs) are mainly classified as incessant increase, monophasic and biphasic. Youth with an i......
Relaxin, an ovarian polypeptide hormone, is found in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) which is an important central integrative site for......
Urotensin II receptor (UTS2R) is suggested to mediate the actions of urotensin II (UTS2) and UTS2-related peptide (URP, also called UTS2B) in mammals.......
Background: Motilin's role in the regulation of vascular tone and hemodynamic besides gastrointestinal motility is concerned. This study aimed to inve......
Cell pyroptosis, a new type of programmed cell death, has been recently reported to play important roles in the development of cardiac remodeling. How......
Neuropeptide Y is known to stimulate food intake in fish. In this study, we investigated tilapia NPY (tNPY) both for its effects on the growth of tila......
Metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is the leading common chronic liver disease affecting more than one-quarter of the population worldwi......
Endomorphin analogs containing unnatural amino acids have demonstrated potent analgesic effects in our previous studies. In the present study, the dif......
To evaluate the role of ghrelin in cardiac fibrosis after myocardial infarction (MI) and to investigate the underlying mechanisms of ghrelin-regulated......
Dysfunction of cholinergic system plays an important role in disease associated with cognitive blockage, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). Central adm......
Ghrelin, a novel gut hormone, has been shown to exert protective effects on cardiac dysfunction and remodeling. However, the underlying mechanisms of ......
