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Asip  -  agouti signaling protein

Rattus norvegicus

Synonyms: ASP, Agouti switch protein, Agouti-signaling protein
 
 
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  • Ghrelin (500 nM), agouti-related peptide (1 microM); cocaine and amphetamine-related transcript (500 nM) and leptin (500 nM and 1 microM) did not modulate the firing rate and membrane potential of VTA neurons [21].
  • Since present evidence suggests that poor debrisoquine hydroxylators are at risk, we designed an experimental study comparing its neurotoxic effects in dark Agouti (DA) rats, with poor hydroxylation of debrisoquine with that in Sprague Dawley (SD) rats, which are vigorous hydroxylators [22].
  • The O-desmethyl and 5-hydroxy metabolites are deficient in poor metabolizers of debrisoquine and sparteine and the Dark Agouti rat model of this human phenotype [23].
  • Here, intraperitoneal infusion of a Lewis-derived rat MHC class I molecule, RT1.A(l)-Fc, in Dark Agouti (RT1.A(a)) recipient rats prolonged cardiac graft survival, which led to permanent engraftment [24].
  • To identify additional hypothalamic systems that might be important in mediating the increase in food intake and alterations in energy homeostasis during lactation, the present studies examined the expression of agouti-related protein (AGRP), a recently described homologue of the skin agouti protein [25].
 

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  • In the Dark Agouti rat, active immunization with native BTN triggers an inflammatory response in the CNS characterized by the formation of scattered meningeal and perivascular infiltrates of T cells and macrophages [26].
  • Moreover, this obese model showed an increase in the mRNA expression of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript, neuropeptide Y and agouti-related protein in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) [5].
  • Agouti-related protein (Agrp) is present in rat and human hypothalamus and is structurally related to agouti protein [27].
  • Detailed double labeling studies in the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus demonstrated that GALP-containing fibers converged in a more rostral direction than did agouti-related protein-containing fibers [28].
  • In the donor-recipient strain combination Lewis (RT1l) to Dark Agouti (RT1a), indefinite renal allograft survival (MST greater than 100 days) was induced by pretreating recipient animals i.v. with 10(6) to 10(8) viable spleen lymphocytes, seven days before transplantation [29].
 

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  • Melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R) density is thought to be regulated by synaptic availability of endogenous agonist, alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH), and also by agouti-related protein (AGRP), which acts as a competitive antagonist [38].
  • In this study, we examined whether ghrelin could stimulate GH secretion and feeding in chronic GHRH, neuropeptide Y, and agouti-related protein deficient rats that were neonatally treated with monosodium glutamate (MSG), which destroys the neurons in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus (ARC) [39].
  • Agouti-related peptide, neuropeptide Y, and somatostatin-producing neurons are targets for ghrelin actions in the rat hypothalamus [40].
  • Increased Hsp27-immunoreactivity exclusively in the examined cortical areas reveals that Hsp27 is a sensitive marker of astroglial response to the effects of MDMA in these regions of Dark Agouti rat brain and suggests differential responses in astroglial Hsp27-expression between distinct brain areas [41].
  • Melanocortin restraint is exerted through alpha-melanocortin-stimulating hormone derived from proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and is antagonized by agouti-related peptide produced in neurons located in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) [42].
 

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