The Peptidergic Neuron

I. General considerations on peptidergic neurons
- Retrospective and prospectives for research on neurosecretion
- Patterns of peptide discharge - implications for Dale's principle
- The paraneuron revisited

II. Biosynthesis, release and degradation of neuropeptides
- Role of convertases in the processing of neuropeptides and neurotrophins
- Biosynthesis of neuropeptides in cnidarians: evidence for unusual neuropeptide precursor processing enzymes
- Evidence for a receptor-mediated mechanism for sorting proopiomelanocortin to the regulated secretory pathway
- Molecular mechanisms of neurotransmitter and neuropeptide release
- Scanning electron microscopy of an active neurohaemal area, the cockroach (Periplaneta americana) corpora cardiaca: looking at neurosecretion from an unprecedented viewpoint
- Varicosity formation and non-synaptic release of large core vesicles in the co-culture of neuronal and smooth muscle cells
- Cell-surface peptidases involved in neuropeptide metabolism: an overview
- The TRH-degrading ectoenzyme: a putative signal-terminator within the central nervous system and adenohypophyseal regulator of hormone secretion
- The function of glial cells in the inactivation of neuropeptides

III. Neuropeptide receptors
- Molecular biology of peptide receptors
- Reduction of somatostatin-14 binding to the rat somatostatin receptor subtype 3 by Na+ is enhanced by mutation of the glutamate residue 92 in the transmembrane domain II
- Somastatin receptor subtypes in human astrocytes and gliomas: Influence of cultivation process
- Coexistence of angiotensin receptors and angiotensin in hypothalamic neurons of the rat
- Bradykinin binding sites on isolated cultured dorsal root ganglion cells demonstrated with gold-labelled bradykinin

IV. Comparative aspects
- The invertebrate neurosecretory cell: state of the art
- Neurotrophin-like immunoreactivity in the nervous system of the earthworm Eisenia foetida (Annelida, Oligochaeta)
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