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581-05-5 | a-Melanotropin (swine)

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Catalog Number:
AA00E8RI
Chemical Name:
a-Melanotropin (swine)
CAS Number:
581-05-5
Molecular Formula:
C77H109N21O19S
Molecular Weight:
1664.8837
MDL Number:
MFCD00133062
SMILES:
NCCCC[C@@H](C(=O)N1CCC[C@H]1C(=O)N[C@H](C(=O)N)C(C)C)NC(=O)CNC(=O)[C@H](Cc1c[nH]c2c1cccc2)NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)C)CO)Cc1ccc(cc1)O)CO)CCSC)CCC(=O)O)Cc1nc[nH]c1)Cc1ccccc1)CCCNC(=N)N
Properties
Computed Properties
 
Complexity:
3370  
Covalently-Bonded Unit Count:
1  
Defined Atom Stereocenter Count:
12  
Heavy Atom Count:
118  
Hydrogen Bond Acceptor Count:
23  
Hydrogen Bond Donor Count:
23  
Rotatable Bond Count:
51  
XLogP3:
-4.3  

Literature

Title: Phytol suppresses melanogenesis through proteasomal degradation of MITF via the ROS-ERK signaling pathway.

Journal: Chemico-biological interactions 20180425

Title: Melanoma targeting with [(99m)Tc(N)(PNP3)]-labeled α-melanocyte stimulating hormone peptide analogs: Effects of cyclization on the radiopharmaceutical properties.

Journal: Nuclear medicine and biology 20161201

Title: Radiopharmacological characterization of ⁶⁴Cu-labeled α-MSH analogs for potential use in imaging of malignant melanoma.

Journal: Amino acids 20160301

Title: Dual receptor-targeting ⁹⁹mTc-labeled Arg-Gly-Asp-conjugated Alpha-Melanocyte stimulating hormone hybrid peptides for human melanoma imaging.

Journal: Nuclear medicine and biology 20150401

Title: RM-493, a melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) agonist, increases resting energy expenditure in obese individuals.

Journal: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 20150401

Title: The melanocortin-4 receptor as target for obesity treatment: a systematic review of emerging pharmacological therapeutic options.

Journal: International journal of obesity (2005) 20140201

Title: Chronic treatment with a melanocortin-4 receptor agonist causes weight loss, reduces insulin resistance, and improves cardiovascular function in diet-induced obese rhesus macaques.

Journal: Diabetes 20130201

Title: 'Click'-cyclized (68)Ga-labeled peptides for molecular imaging and therapy: synthesis and preliminary in vitro and in vivo evaluation in a melanoma model system.

Journal: Recent results in cancer research. Fortschritte der Krebsforschung. Progres dans les recherches sur le cancer 20130101

Title: Discovery of small molecules that inhibit melanogenesis via regulation of tyrosinase expression.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20121115

Title: Circadian and circannual rhythms of cortisol, ACTH, and α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in healthy horses.

Journal: Domestic animal endocrinology 20121101

Title: Direct regulation of GnRH neuron excitability by arcuate nucleus POMC and NPY neuron neuropeptides in female mice.

Journal: Endocrinology 20121101

Title: Synthesis and biological evaluation of a novel (177)Lu-DOTA-[Gly(3)-cyclized(Dap(4), (d)-Phe(7), Asp(10))-Arg(11)]α-MSH(3-13) analogue for melanocortin-1 receptor-positive tumor targeting.

Journal: Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals 20121001

Title: Characterization of cell membrane parameters of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus with varied susceptibility to alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone.

Journal: Peptides 20121001

Title: Defining MC1R regulation in human melanocytes by its agonist α-melanocortin and antagonists agouti signaling protein and β-defensin 3.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20120901

Title: Food intake reductions and increases in energetic responses by hindbrain leptin and melanotan II are enhanced in mice with POMC-specific PTP1B deficiency.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism 20120901

Title: β-Endorphin antagonizes the effects of α-MSH on food intake and body weight.

Journal: Endocrinology 20120901

Title: Regulation of prolactin in mice with altered hypothalamic melanocortin activity.

Journal: Peptides 20120901

Title: Selected melanocortin 1 receptor single-nucleotide polymorphisms differentially alter multiple signaling pathways.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 20120801

Title: A brain leptin-renin angiotensin system interaction in the regulation of sympathetic nerve activity.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology 20120715

Title: Seasonal variation in results of diagnostic tests for pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction in older, clinically normal geldings.

Journal: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 20120715

Title: Anhedonia requires MC4R-mediated synaptic adaptations in nucleus accumbens.

Journal: Nature 20120712

Title: Influence of chemical peeling on the skin stress response system.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20120701

Title: Constitutive cholesterol-dependent endocytosis of melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) is essential to maintain receptor responsiveness to α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH).

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20120622

Title: MC1R expression in HaCaT keratinocytes inhibits UVA-induced ROS production via NADPH oxidase- and cAMP-dependent mechanisms.

Journal: Journal of cellular physiology 20120601

Title: siRNA-mediated knock-down of COX-2 in melanocytes suppresses melanogenesis.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20120601

Title: Dioxinodehydroeckol inhibits melanin synthesis through PI3K/Akt signalling pathway in α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-treated B16F10 cells.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20120601

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone suppresses oxidative stress through a p53-mediated signaling pathway in human melanocytes.

Journal: Molecular cancer research : MCR 20120601

Title: Melanogenesis-inhibitory saccharide fatty acid esters and other constituents of the fruits of Morinda citrifolia (noni).

Journal: Chemistry & biodiversity 20120601

Title: Control of luminescence from pygmy shark (Squaliolus aliae) photophores.

Journal: The Journal of experimental biology 20120515

Title: Structural modification on the Lys linker enhanced tumor to kidney uptake ratios of 99mTc-labeled RGD-conjugated α-MSH hybrid peptides.

Journal: Molecular pharmaceutics 20120507

Title: Endocannabinoids stimulate human melanogenesis via type-1 cannabinoid receptor.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20120504

Title: Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist, exendin-4, regulates feeding-associated neuropeptides in hypothalamic neurons in vivo and in vitro.

Journal: Endocrinology 20120501

Title: G-protein-gated inwardly rectifying K+ channel 4 (GIRK4) immunoreactivity in chemically defined neurons of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus that control body weight.

Journal: Journal of chemical neuroanatomy 20120501

Title: Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone preserves islet graft survival through down-regulation of Toll-like receptors.

Journal: Transplantation proceedings 20120501

Title: Modulation of basophil activity: a novel function of the neuropeptide α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.

Journal: The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 20120401

Title: Characterization of a novel tyrosinase inhibitor, (2RS,4R)-2-(2,4-dihydroxyphenyl)thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid (MHY384).

Journal: Biochimica et biophysica acta 20120401

Title: Identification and in vivo and in vitro characterization of long acting and melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4-R) selective α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) analogues.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20120308

Title: Melanocortin receptor 4 deficiency affects body weight regulation, grooming behavior, and substrate preference in the rat.

Journal: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20120301

Title: A novel anti-inflammatory role for spleen-derived interleukin-10 in obesity-induced hypothalamic inflammation.

Journal: Journal of neurochemistry 20120301

Title: Melanocortin receptors in rat liver cells: change of gene expression and intracellular localization during acute-phase response.

Journal: Histochemistry and cell biology 20120301

Title: Further evidence on acetylation-induced inhibition of the pigment-dispersing activity of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20120301

Title: Loss of autophagy in hypothalamic POMC neurons impairs lipolysis.

Journal: EMBO reports 20120301

Title: Substitution of Gly with Ala enhanced the melanoma uptake of technetium-99m-labeled Arg-Ala-Asp-conjugated alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone peptide.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20120215

Title: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of 2-(substituted phenyl)thiazolidine-4-carboxylic acid derivatives as novel tyrosinase inhibitors.

Journal: Biochimie 20120201

Title: Hidradenitis suppurativa: the role of deficient cutaneous innate immunity.

Journal: Archives of dermatology 20120201

Title: The HPA axis modulates the CNS melanocortin control of liver triacylglyceride metabolism.

Journal: Physiology & behavior 20120201

Title: Neutrophil and cytokine dysregulation in hyperinsulinemic obese horses.

Journal: Veterinary immunology and immunopathology 20120115

Title: Structure-activity relationship of naphthaldehydethiosemicarbazones in melanogenesis inhibition.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20120115

Title: Melanocortin 4 receptor activation induces brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in rat astrocytes through cyclic AMP-protein kinase A pathway.

Journal: Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20120102

Title: Ultraviolet B radiation to the eye induces pigmentation in the epidermis via the activation of the subunit gp91 phox of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase.

Journal: Clinical and experimental dermatology 20120101

Title: Suppression of α-MSH and IBMX-induced melanogenesis by cordycepin via inhibition of CREB and MITF, and activation of PI3K/Akt and ERK-dependent mechanisms.

Journal: International journal of molecular medicine 20120101

Title: Long-term ultraviolet A irradiation of the eye induces photoaging of the skin in mice.

Journal: Archives of dermatological research 20120101

Title: A mass spectrometry-based method to screen for α-amidated peptides.

Journal: Proteomics 20120101

Title: Inhibitory effect of homochlorcyclizine on melanogenesis in α-melanocyte stimulating hormone-stimulated mouse B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: Archives of pharmacal research 20120101

Title: Modular nanotransporters: a multipurpose in vivo working platform for targeted drug delivery.

Journal: International journal of nanomedicine 20120101

Title: Heparanase affects food intake and regulates energy balance in mice.

Journal: PloS one 20120101

Title: Gene transfer to chicks using lentiviral vectors administered via the embryonic chorioallantoic membrane.

Journal: PloS one 20120101

Title: Selective targeting of melanoma by PEG-masked protein-based multifunctional nanoparticles.

Journal: International journal of nanomedicine 20120101

Title: A fluorescent chromatophore changes the level of fluorescence in a reef fish.

Journal: PloS one 20120101

Title: NPY and VGF immunoreactivity increased in the arcuate nucleus, but decreased in the nucleus of the Tractus Solitarius, of type-II diabetic patients.

Journal: PloS one 20120101

Title: Aromatic-turmerone inhibits α-MSH and IBMX-induced melanogenesis by inactivating CREB and MITF signaling pathways.

Journal: Archives of dermatological research 20111201

Title: Plasma α-melanocyte stimulating hormone predicts outcome in ischemic stroke.

Journal: Stroke 20111201

Title: Arcuate nucleus of hypothalamus is involved in mediating the satiety effect of electroacupuncture in obese rats.

Journal: Peptides 20111201

Title: Ascorbic acid increases the activity and synthesis of tyrosinase in B16F10 cells through activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase.

Journal: Archives of dermatological research 20111101

Title: Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and α-melanocyte-stimulating hormones of iNOS origin play important roles in the allergic reactions of atopic dermatitis in mice.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20111101

Title: Inhibitory effects of Sargassum polycystum on tyrosinase activity and melanin formation in B16F10 murine melanoma cells.

Journal: Journal of ethnopharmacology 20111011

Title: Anatomical dissociation of melanocortin receptor agonist effects on taste- and gut-sensitive feeding processes.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20111001

Title: Melanocortin 4 receptor activation protects against testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury by triggering the cholinergic antiinflammatory pathway.

Journal: Endocrinology 20111001

Title: Improved synthesis and biological evaluation of chelator-modified α-MSH analogs prepared by copper-free click chemistry.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20111001

Title: Post-translational modifications of pro-opiomelanocrtin related hormones in medaka pituitary based on mass spectrometric analyses.

Journal: Peptides 20111001

Title: Functional studies on twenty novel naturally occurring melanocortin-4 receptor mutations.

Journal: Biochimica et biophysica acta 20110901

Title: Alterations in downstream mediators involved in central control of eating behavior in obese adolescents submitted to a multidisciplinary therapy.

Journal: The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 20110901

Title: Decrease in glutathione may be involved in pathogenesis of acne vulgaris.

Journal: Journal of cosmetic dermatology 20110901

Title: Interaction of α-melanocortin and its pentapeptide antisense LVKAT: effects on hepatoprotection in male CBA mice.

Journal: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20110826

Title: The lateral hypothalamus: a site for integration of nutrient and fluid balance.

Journal: Behavioural brain research 20110810

Title: Quercetin inhibits α-MSH-stimulated melanogenesis in B16F10 melanoma cells.

Journal: Phytotherapy research : PTR 20110801

Title: A derivative of 2-aminothiazole inhibits melanogenesis in B16 mouse melanoma cells via glycogen synthase kinase 3β phosphorylation.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacy and pharmacology 20110801

Title: Pharmacological characterization of canine melancortin-4 receptor and its natural variant V213F.

Journal: Domestic animal endocrinology 20110801

Title: Effect of saucerneol D on melanin production in cAMP-elevated melanocytes.

Journal: Archives of pharmacal research 20110801

Title: Testosterone and 11-ketotestosterone have different regulatory effects on electric communication signals of male Brachyhypopomus gauderio.

Journal: Hormones and behavior 20110701

Title: Immunosuppressive activity of a novel peptide analog of α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) in experimental autoimmune uveitis.

Journal: Journal of neuroimmunology 20110701

Title: Hyperleptinemia in obese adolescents deregulates neuropeptides during weight loss.

Journal: Peptides 20110701

Title: Assessment of voluntary ethanol consumption and the effects of a melanocortin (MC) receptor agonist on ethanol intake in mutant C57BL/6J mice lacking the MC-4 receptor.

Journal: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 20110601

Title: α-Melanocyte--stimulating hormone and adrenocorticotropin concentrations in response to thyrotropin-releasing hormone and comparison with adrenocorticotropin concentration after domperidone administration in healthy horses and horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction.

Journal: Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 20110515

Title: 5,7-dimethoxyflavone induces melanogenesis in B16F10 melanoma cells through cAMP-dependent signalling.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20110501

Title: Melanotropic peptides: what exactly is meant by 'melanotan'?

Journal: Acta dermato-venereologica 20110501

Title: Central nervous system agents and erectile dysfunction.

Journal: The Urologic clinics of North America 20110501

Title: Central melanocortin receptor agonist reduces hepatic lipogenic gene expression in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice.

Journal: Life sciences 20110411

Title: Genetic modifications of mouse proopiomelanocortin peptide processing.

Journal: Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20110410

Title: Wnt/β-catenin signaling is stimulated by α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in melanoma and melanocyte cells: implication in cell differentiation.

Journal: Pigment cell & melanoma research 20110401

Title: Depigmenting mechanism of NSAIDs on B16F1 melanoma cells.

Journal: Archives of dermatological research 20110401

Title: Treatment with a melanocortin agonist improves abnormal lipid metabolism in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20110401

Title: Cholecystokinin and hypothalamic corticotrophin-releasing factor participate in endotoxin-induced hypophagia.

Journal: Experimental physiology 20110401

Title: Effects of the amino acid linkers on the melanoma-targeting and pharmacokinetic properties of 111In-labeled lactam bridge-cyclized alpha-MSH peptides.

Journal: Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20110401

Title: Synthesis and anti-melanogenic activity of hydroxyphenyl benzyl ether analogues.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 20110401

Title: GABA inhibition of luminescence from lantern shark (Etmopterus spinax) photophores.

Journal: Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Toxicology & pharmacology : CBP 20110301

Title: Systemic but not central nervous system nitric oxide synthase inhibition exacerbates the hypertensive effects of chronic melanocortin-3/4 receptor activation.

Journal: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 20110301

Title: Thyroid transcription factor-1 regulates feeding behavior via melanocortin pathway in the hypothalamus.

Journal: Diabetes 20110301

Title: Early and post-weaning malnutrition impairs alpha-MSH expression in the hypothalamus: a possible link to long-term overweight.

Journal: Nutritional neuroscience 20110301

Title: Hypopigmenting activity of bisabolangelone isolated from Angelica koreana Maxim. in α-melanocyte stimulating hormone-activated B16 or melan-a cells.

Journal: Planta medica 20110201

Title: Effect of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone on locomotor recovery following spinal cord injury in mice: Role of serotonergic system.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20110201

Title: Melanocortin receptor subtypes in interrenal cells and corticotropic activity of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormones in barfin flounder, Verasper moseri.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20110201

Title: Activation of the melanocortin-4 receptor causes enhanced excitation in presympathetic paraventricular neurons in obese Zucker rats.

Journal: Regulatory peptides 20110117

Title: Hemodynamic actions of corticotropin-releasing hormone and proopiomelanocortin derivatives in septic patients.

Journal: Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology 20110101

Title: Signaling from the human melanocortin 1 receptor to ERK1 and ERK2 mitogen-activated protein kinases involves transactivation of cKIT.

Journal: Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.) 20110101

Title: Effects of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone on calcium concentration in SZ95 sebocytes.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20110101

Title: A retro-inverso α-melanocyte stimulating hormone analog with MC1R-binding selectivity.

Journal: Journal of peptide science : an official publication of the European Peptide Society 20110101

Title: Effect of SOM230 (pasireotide) on corticotropic cells: action in dogs with Cushing's disease.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20110101

Title: Role of hypothalamic melanocortin system in adaptation of food intake to food protein increase in mice.

Journal: PloS one 20110101

Title: Anti-inflammatory effect of the alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone in animal eyes undergoing extracapsular lens extraction.

Journal: Molekuliarnaia biologiia 20110101

Title: The novel role of cathepsin L for neuropeptide production illustrated by research strategies in chemical biology with protease gene knockout and expression.

Journal: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 20110101

Title: Melanin biosynthesis inhibitors from Tarragon Artemisia dracunculus.

Journal: Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 20110101

Title: The E92K melanocortin 1 receptor mutant induces cAMP production and arrestin recruitment but not ERK activity indicating biased constitutive signaling.

Journal: PloS one 20110101

Title: Identification of indoline-2-thione analogs as novel potent inhibitors of α-melanocyte stimulating hormone induced melanogenesis.

Journal: Chemical & pharmaceutical bulletin 20110101

Title: LPA is a chemorepellent for B16 melanoma cells: action through the cAMP-elevating LPA5 receptor.

Journal: PloS one 20110101

Title: Radiofluorinated rhenium cyclized α-MSH analogues for PET imaging of melanocortin receptor 1.

Journal: Bioconjugate chemistry 20101215

Title: Strong exercise stress exacerbates dermatitis in atopic model mice, NC/Nga mice, while proper exercise reduces it.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20101201

Title: Inhibition of melanogenesis and oxidation by protocatechuic acid from Origanum vulgare (oregano).

Journal: Journal of natural products 20101129

Title: P2X2 purinoreceptor protein in hypothalamic neurons associated with the regulation of food intake.

Journal: Neuroscience 20101124

Title: Technetium-99m-labeled Arg-Gly-Asp-conjugated alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone hybrid peptides for human melanoma imaging.

Journal: Nuclear medicine and biology 20101101

Title: Neuroendocrine and non-neuroendocrine markers of inflammation associated with performance in endurance horses.

Journal: Equine veterinary journal. Supplement 20101101

Title: Melanocortin-4 receptor activation promotes insulin-stimulated mTOR signaling.

Journal: Peptides 20101001

Title: Unusual development of light-reflecting pigment cells in intact and regenerating tail in the periodic albino mutant of Xenopus laevis.

Journal: Cell and tissue research 20101001

Title: Replacement of the Lys linker with an Arg linker resulting in improved melanoma uptake and reduced renal uptake of Tc-99m-labeled Arg-Gly-Asp-conjugated alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone hybrid peptide.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 20100915

Title: High-fat intake induced by mu-opioid activation of the nucleus accumbens is inhibited by Y1R-blockade and MC3/4R- stimulation.

Journal: Brain research 20100902

Title: The anorexigenic action of the octadecaneuropeptide (ODN) in goldfish is mediated through the MC4R- and subsequently the CRH receptor-signaling pathways.

Journal: Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN 20100901

Title: Melanotropic peptides: more than just 'Barbie drugs' and 'sun-tan jabs'?

Journal: The British journal of dermatology 20100901

Title: Interactions of the melanocortin-4 receptor with the peptide agonist NDP-MSH.

Journal: Journal of molecular biology 20100820

Title: Refinement of the pharmacophore of 3,4-dihydroquinazoline-2(1H)-thiones for their anti-melanogenesis activity.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20100815

Title: Age-related changes in pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) and related receptors in human epidermis.

Journal: International journal of cosmetic science 20100801

Title: Differential expressions of melanocortin receptor subtypes in melanophores and xanthophores of barfin flounder.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20100801

Title: Obese carboxypeptidase E knockout mice exhibit multiple defects in peptide hormone processing contributing to low bone mineral density.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism 20100801

Title: Antioxidative characteristics and inhibition of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-stimulated melanogenesis of vanillin and vanillic acid from Origanum vulgare.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20100801

Title: Prostaglandin D production in FM55 melanoma cells is regulated by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone and is not related to melanin production.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20100801

Title: Possible relevance between prohormone convertase 2 expression and tumor growth in human adrenocorticotropin-producing pituitary adenoma.

Journal: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 20100801

Title: beta-Endorphin expression in the mouse retina.

Journal: The Journal of comparative neurology 20100801

Title: Conservation of the chromatophore pigment response.

Journal: Journal of applied toxicology : JAT 20100801

Title: A randomized, double-blind, vehicle-controlled study of a preparation containing undecylenoyl phenylalanine 2% in the treatment of solar lentigines.

Journal: Clinical and experimental dermatology 20100701

Title: Central melanocortin stimulation increases phosphorylated perilipin A and hormone-sensitive lipase in adipose tissues.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20100701

Title: Curcumin suppresses alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone-stimulated melanogenesis in B16F10 cells.

Journal: International journal of molecular medicine 20100701

Title: Novel benzo[d]imidazole-2(3H)-thiones as potent inhibitors of the alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone induced melanogenesis in melanoma B16 cells.

Journal: Chemical & pharmaceutical bulletin 20100701

Title: Inhibitory effect of glyceollin isolated from soybean against melanogenesis in B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: BMB reports 20100701

Title: Pharmacological characterization of 30 human melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphisms with the endogenous proopiomelanocortin-derived agonists, synthetic agonists, and the endogenous agouti-related protein antagonist.

Journal: Biochemistry 20100608

Title: The anorexigenic and hypertensive effects of nesfatin-1 are reversed by pretreatment with an oxytocin receptor antagonist.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20100601

Title: Expression of leukemia inhibitory factor and leukemia inhibitory factor receptor in the canine pituitary gland and corticotrope adenomas.

Journal: Domestic animal endocrinology 20100501

Title: Melanocyte-stimulating hormone directly enhances UV-Induced DNA repair in keratinocytes by a xeroderma pigmentosum group A-dependent mechanism.

Journal: Cancer research 20100501

Title: Dephosphorylation/inactivation of tyrosine hydroxylase at the median eminence of the hypothalamus is required for suckling-induced prolactin and adrenocorticotrop hormone responses.

Journal: Brain research bulletin 20100429

Title: Melanocortins induce interleukin 6 gene expression and secretion through melanocortin receptors 2 and 5 in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.

Journal: Journal of molecular endocrinology 20100401

Title: Ethanol-induced increase of agouti-related protein (AgRP) immunoreactivity in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus of C57BL/6J, but not 129/SvJ, inbred mice.

Journal: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 20100401

Title: Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone analogue AP214 protects against ischemia induced acute kidney injury in a porcine surgical model.

Journal: The Journal of urology 20100401

Title: Targeted melanoma imaging and therapy with radiolabeled alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone peptide analogues.

Journal: Giornale italiano di dermatologia e venereologia : organo ufficiale, Societa italiana di dermatologia e sifilografia 20100401

Title: The correlation of TRPM1 (Melastatin) mRNA expression with microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) and other melanogenesis-related proteins in normal and pathological skin, hair follicles and melanocytic nevi.

Journal: Journal of cutaneous pathology 20100401

Title: p38 regulates pigmentation via proteasomal degradation of tyrosinase.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20100305

Title: The influence of alpha-, beta-, and gamma-melanocyte stimulating hormone on acetaminophen induced liver lesions in male CBA mice.

Journal: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20100303

Title: Laurdan spectrum decomposition as a tool for the analysis of surface bilayer structure and polarity: a study with DMPG, peptides and cholesterol.

Journal: Journal of fluorescence 20100301

Title: Inhibitory effects of 5-chloroacetyl-2-piperidino-1,3-selenazole, a novel selenium-containing compound, on skin melanin biosynthesis.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacy and pharmacology 20100301

Title: Neuropeptide alpha-MSH exerts pro-inflammatory effects on Neisseria meningitidis infection in vitro.

Journal: Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] 20100201

Title: Changes of peripheral alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in childhood obesity.

Journal: Metabolism: clinical and experimental 20100201

Title: Increased alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) levels and melanocortin receptors expression associated with pigmentation in an NC/Nga mouse model of atopic dermatitis.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20100201

Title: Melanocortin activity in the amygdala controls appetite for dietary fat.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20100201

Title: Nutritional programming affects hypothalamic organization and early response to leptin.

Journal: Endocrinology 20100201

Title: Nociceptin/orphanin FQ peptide in hypothalamic neurones associated with the control of feeding behaviour.

Journal: Journal of neuroendocrinology 20100201

Title: Inhibitory effect of novel tetrahydropyrimidine-2(1H)-thiones on melanogenesis.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry 20100201

Title: Light modulates the melanophore response to alpha-MSH in Xenopus laevis: an analysis of the signal transduction crosstalk mechanisms involved.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20100101

Title: Melanocortins mimic the effects of leptin to restore reproductive function in lean hypogonadotropic ewes.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20100101

Title: The neuropeptide alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone is critically involved in the development of cytotoxic CD8+ T cells in mice and humans.

Journal: PloS one 20100101

Title: Fluvastatin increases tyrosinase synthesis induced by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in B16F10 melanoma cells.

Journal: Pharmacological reports : PR 20100101

Title: Neuropeptide delivery to the brain: a von Willebrand factor signal peptide to direct neuropeptide secretion.

Journal: BMC neuroscience 20100101

Title: The increase of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the plasma of chronic fatigue syndrome patients.

Journal: BMC neurology 20100101

Title: alpha-MSH activates immediate defense responses to UV-induced oxidative stress in human melanocytes.

Journal: Pigment cell & melanoma research 20091201

Title: Distinct effects of leptin and a melanocortin receptor agonist injected into medial hypothalamic nuclei on glucose uptake in peripheral tissues.

Journal: Diabetes 20091201

Title: Melanocortins may stimulate reproduction by activating orexin neurons in the dorsomedial hypothalamus and kisspeptin neurons in the preoptic area of the ewe.

Journal: Endocrinology 20091201

Title: Torilin from Torilis japonica inhibits melanin production in alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone-activated B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: Planta medica 20091101

Title: Dopamine-regulated adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion in lactating rats: functional plasticity of melanotropes.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20091101

Title: Effect of DOTA position on melanoma targeting and pharmacokinetic properties of 111In-labeled lactam bridge-cyclized alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone peptide.

Journal: Bioconjugate chemistry 20091101

Title: Hormonal control of luminescence from lantern shark (Etmopterus spinax) photophores.

Journal: The Journal of experimental biology 20091101

Title: alpha-MSH tripeptide analogs activate the melanocortin 1 receptor and reduce UV-induced DNA damage in human melanocytes.

Journal: Pigment cell & melanoma research 20091001

Title: Analysis of the therapeutic functions of novel melanocortin receptor agonists in MC3R- and MC4R-deficient C57BL/6J mice.

Journal: Peptides 20091001

Title: The obesity susceptibility gene Cpe links FoxO1 signaling in hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin neurons with regulation of food intake.

Journal: Nature medicine 20091001

Title: Acteoside inhibits alpha-MSH-induced melanin production in B16 melanoma cells by inactivation of adenyl cyclase.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacy and pharmacology 20091001

Title: Immunohistochemical changes in orexigenic and anorexigenic neuropeptides in the rat hypothalamus after capsaicin administration.

Journal: The Journal of veterinary medical science 20091001

Title: Pertussis toxin-sensitive signaling of melanocortin-4 receptors in hypothalamic GT1-7 cells defines agouti-related protein as a biased agonist.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20090925

Title: The expression of melanin-based plumage is separately modulated by exogenous oxidative stress and a melanocortin.

Journal: Proceedings. Biological sciences 20090907

Title: Effect of nociceptin/orphanin FQ on feeding behavior and hypothalamic neuropeptide expression in layer-type chicks.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20090901

Title: In vitro antimicrobial activity of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone against major human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus.

Journal: Peptides 20090901

Title: The effect of proopiomelanocortin-derived peptides on the immune system of human hair follicles.

Journal: Journal of dermatological science 20090901

Title: Evaluation of a novel Arg-Gly-Asp-conjugated α-melanocyte stimulating hormone hybrid peptide for potential melanoma therapy.

Journal: Bioconjugate chemistry 20090819

Title: The dynamic properties of intermediate filaments during organelle transport.

Journal: Journal of cell science 20090815

Title: Anti-acne agents attenuate FGFR2 signal transduction in acne.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20090801

Title: Anti-inflammatory influences on behavioral, but not cortisol, responses during maternal separation.

Journal: Psychoneuroendocrinology 20090801

Title: Partially purified Curcuma longa inhibits alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-stimulated melanogenesis through extracellular signal-regulated kinase or Akt activation-mediated signalling in B16F10 cells.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20090801

Title: Hypothalamic orexin, OX1, alphaMSH, NPY and MCRs expression in dopaminergic D2R knockout mice.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20090801

Title: Enhanced targeting with heterobivalent ligands.

Journal: Molecular cancer therapeutics 20090801

Title: {alpha}MSH and Cyclic AMP elevating agents control melanosome pH through a protein kinase A-independent mechanism.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20090710

Title: Profiling the response of human hair follicles to ultraviolet radiation.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20090701

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone counteracts the suppressive effect of UVB on Nrf2 and Nrf-dependent gene expression in human skin.

Journal: Endocrinology 20090701

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone attenuates behavioral effects of corticotropin-releasing factor in isolated guinea pig pups.

Journal: Developmental psychobiology 20090701

Title: Release of melanotroph- and corticotroph-type proopiomelanocortin derivatives into blood after administration of corticotropin-releasing hormone in patients with septic shock without adrenocortical insufficiency.

Journal: Shock (Augusta, Ga.) 20090601

Title: Human pituitary contains dual cathepsin L and prohormone convertase processing pathway components involved in converting POMC into the peptide hormones ACTH, alpha-MSH, and beta-endorphin.

Journal: Endocrine 20090601

Title: Chronic stress elicits prolonged activation of alpha-MSH secretion and subsequent degeneration of melanotroph.

Journal: Journal of neurochemistry 20090601

Title: Ultraviolet A irradiation of the eye activates a nitric oxide-dependent hypothalamo-pituitary pro-opiomelanocortin pathway and modulates the functions of Langerhans cells.

Journal: The Journal of dermatology 20090601

Title: Glycosylated DOTA-alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analogues for melanoma targeting: influence of the site of glycosylation on in vivo biodistribution.

Journal: Bioconjugate chemistry 20090520

Title: The role of mPer2 clock gene in glucocorticoid and feeding rhythms.

Journal: Endocrinology 20090501

Title: Microinjections of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone into the nucleus ambiguus of the rat elicit vagally mediated bradycardia.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20090501

Title: Human hair follicle pigmentary unit as a direct target for modulators of melanogenesis, as studied by [14C]-2-thiouracil incorporation.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20090401

Title: Metastatic melanoma imaging with an (111)In-labeled lactam bridge-cyclized alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone peptide.

Journal: Nuclear medicine and biology 20090401

Title: Dermal microdialysis of inflammatory markers induced by aliphatic hydrocarbons in rats.

Journal: Toxicology letters 20090328

Title: Vagus nerve mediates the protective effects of melanocortins against cerebral and systemic damage after ischemic stroke.

Journal: Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 20090301

Title: Prostaglandin mediates endotoxaemia-induced hypophagia by activation of pro-opiomelanocortin and corticotrophin-releasing factor neurons in rats.

Journal: Experimental physiology 20090301

Title: Three weeks of postweaning exercise in DIO rats produces prolonged increases in central leptin sensitivity and signaling.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20090301

Title: Evaluating cellular impedance assays for detection of GPCR pleiotropic signaling and functional selectivity.

Journal: Journal of biomolecular screening 20090301

Title: Inhibitory effects of arbutin on melanin biosynthesis of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone-induced hyperpigmentation in cultured brownish guinea pig skin tissues.

Journal: Archives of pharmacal research 20090301

Title: Effect of pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) on melanogenic protein expression in murine B16 melanoma.

Journal: Journal of dermatological science 20090201

Title: Interaction of adrenocorticotropin peptides with microheterogeneous systems--a fluorescence study.

Journal: Biophysical chemistry 20090201

Title: Melanocortins regulate the electric waveforms of gymnotiform electric fish.

Journal: Hormones and behavior 20090201

Title: Cyclic AMP signaling as a mediator of vasculogenic mimicry in aggressive human melanoma cells in vitro.

Journal: Cancer research 20090201

Title: Central and peripheral integration of interrenal and thyroid axes signals in common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.).

Journal: The Journal of endocrinology 20090101

Title: Plasma alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone: sex differences and correlations with obesity.

Journal: Metabolism: clinical and experimental 20090101

Title: Inhibitory effect of 2,4,2',4'-tetrahydroxy-3-(3-methyl-2-butenyl)-chalcone on tyrosinase activity and melanin biosynthesis.

Journal: Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin 20090101

Title: Hormonal regulation of the mouse adrenal melanocortinergic system.

Journal: Journal of endocrinological investigation 20090101

Title: In vivo multiplex quantitative analysis of 3 forms of alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone in pituitary of prolyl endopeptidase deficient mice.

Journal: Molecular brain 20090101

Title: Melanocortin-4 receptor mutations in obesity.

Journal: Advances in clinical chemistry 20090101

Title: The immune privileged retina mediates an alternative activation of J774A.1 cells.

Journal: Ocular immunology and inflammation 20090101

Title: Critical role of arcuate Y4 receptors and the melanocortin system in pancreatic polypeptide-induced reduction in food intake in mice.

Journal: PloS one 20090101

Title: Major role of cathepsin L for producing the peptide hormones ACTH, beta-endorphin, and alpha-MSH, illustrated by protease gene knockout and expression.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20081219

Title: Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) is involved in the acute anorexic effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone: a study using CRF-deficient mice.

Journal: Peptides 20081201

Title: NDRG2 gene expression in B16F10 melanoma cells restrains melanogenesis via inhibition of Mitf expression.

Journal: Pigment cell & melanoma research 20081201

Title: Blood pressure regulation and cardiac autonomic control in mice overexpressing alpha- and gamma-melanocyte stimulating hormone.

Journal: Peptides 20081101

Title: Growth hormone excess and the effect of octreotide in cats with diabetes mellitus.

Journal: Domestic animal endocrinology 20081101

Title: A method for quantifying melanosome transfer efficacy from melanocytes to keratinocytes in vitro.

Journal: Pigment cell & melanoma research 20081001

Title: Electroacupuncture in the treatment of obesity.

Journal: Neurochemical research 20081001

Title: Transcription elements and functional expression of proopiomelanocortin genes in the pituitary gland of the barfin flounder.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20080915

Title: Panax ginseng induces anterograde transport of pigment organelles in Xenopus melanophores.

Journal: Journal of ethnopharmacology 20080902

Title: Whitening activity of luteolin related to the inhibition of cAMP pathway in alpha-MSH-stimulated B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: Archives of pharmacal research 20080901

Title: Cushing's disease in dogs: cabergoline treatment.

Journal: Research in veterinary science 20080801

Title: Treatment with alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone preserves calcium regulatory proteins in rat heart allografts.

Journal: Brain, behavior, and immunity 20080801

Title: Neuronal interaction between melanin-concentrating hormone- and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-containing neurons in the goldfish hypothalamus.

Journal: Peptides 20080801

Title: p-Coumaric acid, a constituent of Sasa quelpaertensis Nakai, inhibits cellular melanogenesis stimulated by alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone.

Journal: The British journal of dermatology 20080801

Title: Melanocortin-4 receptor mRNA expressed in sympathetic outflow neurons to brown adipose tissue: neuroanatomical and functional evidence.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20080801

Title: Leptin infusion and obesity in mouse cause alterations in the hypothalamic melanocortin system.

Journal: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20080801

Title: Regulation of eumelanin/pheomelanin synthesis and visible pigmentation in melanocytes by ligands of the melanocortin 1 receptor.

Journal: Pigment cell & melanoma research 20080801

Title: Effects of hydroxybenzyl alcohols on melanogenesis in melanocyte-keratinocyte co-culture and monolayer culture of melanocytes.

Journal: Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry 20080801

Title: Reflex penile erection in anesthetized mice: an exploratory study.

Journal: Neuroscience 20080731

Title: 5-HT(2C) receptor activation is a common mechanism on proerectile effects of apomorphine, oxytocin and melanotan-II in rats.

Journal: European journal of pharmacology 20080728

Title: The diminishment of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) by neuropeptide alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) therapy.

Journal: Brain, behavior, and immunity 20080701

Title: Effect of xanthohumol on melanogenesis in B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: Experimental & molecular medicine 20080630

Title: Dynorphin in pro-opiomelanocortin neurons of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus.

Journal: Neuroscience 20080626

Title: Involvement of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) in differential ethanol exposure and withdrawal related depression in rat: neuroanatomical-behavioral correlates.

Journal: Brain research 20080624

Title: Effects of fluoxetine administration on hypothalamic melanocortin system in obese Zucker rats.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20080601

Title: Reduction of ischemic stroke in rat brain by alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20080601

Title: Cyclic analogs of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alphaMSH) with high agonist potency and selectivity at human melanocortin receptor 1b.

Journal: Peptides 20080601

Title: Agouti-related peptide and MC3/4 receptor agonists both inhibit excitatory hypothalamic ventromedial nucleus neurons.

Journal: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20080521

Title: Presynaptic melanocortin-4 receptors on vagal afferent fibers modulate the excitability of rat nucleus tractus solitarius neurons.

Journal: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20080507

Title: Analogs of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone with high agonist potency and selectivity at human melanocortin receptor 1b: the role of Trp(9) in molecular recognition.

Journal: Biopolymers 20080501

Title: Melanocytes expressing MC1R polymorphisms associated with red hair color have altered MSH-ligand activated pigmentary responses in coculture with keratinocytes.

Journal: Journal of cellular physiology 20080501

Title: RETRACTED: Evaluation of the safety and efficacy of bremelanotide, a melanocortin receptor agonist, in female subjects with arousal disorder: a double-blind placebo-controlled, fixed dose, randomized study.

Journal: The journal of sexual medicine 20080401

Title: Alpha-MSH promotes spontaneous post-ischemic pneumonia in mice via melanocortin-receptor-1.

Journal: Experimental neurology 20080401

Title: Inhibitory effects of whisky congeners on melanogenesis in mouse B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry 20080401

Title: Inhibitory effect of p-coumaric acid by Rhodiola sachalinensis on melanin synthesis in B16F10 cells.

Journal: Die Pharmazie 20080401

Title: Melanoma targeting with alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone analogs labeled with fac-[99mTc(CO)3]+: effect of cyclization on tumor-seeking properties.

Journal: Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 20080301

Title: Salvage of sildenafil failures with bremelanotide: a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study.

Journal: The Journal of urology 20080301

Title: alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone gene transfer attenuates inflammation after bile duct ligation in the rat.

Journal: Digestive diseases and sciences 20080201

Title: Beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone potently reduces appetite via the hypothalamus in chicks.

Journal: Journal of neuroendocrinology 20080201

Title: Mutational analysis of the pro-opiomelanocortin gene in French obese children led to the identification of a novel deleterious heterozygous mutation located in the alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone domain.

Journal: Pediatric research 20080201

Title: Decreased immunoreactivity of the melanocortin neuropeptide alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) after chronic ethanol exposure in Sprague-Dawley rats.

Journal: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 20080201

Title: Structure-activity relationships of cyclic lactam analogues of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) targeting the human melanocortin-3 receptor.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20080124

Title: Regulation of hypothalamic endocannabinoid levels by neuropeptides and hormones involved in food intake and metabolism: insulin and melanocortins.

Journal: Neuropharmacology 20080101

Title: A (99m)Tc(CO)(3)-labeled pyrazolyl-alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analog conjugate for melanoma targeting.

Journal: Nuclear medicine and biology 20080101

Title: Evidence of a possible role for Lys-gamma3-MSH in the regulation of adipocyte function.

Journal: The Journal of endocrinology 20080101

Title: The effect of age on serum antibody titers after rabies and influenza vaccination in healthy horses.

Journal: Journal of veterinary internal medicine 20080101

Title: [Pharmacodynamic properties of a combination of met-enkephalin and alpha 1-13 adrenocorticotropic hormone].

Journal: Medicinski arhiv 20080101

Title: Leptin sensitivity in the developing rat hypothalamus.

Journal: Endocrinology 20071201

Title: Presence of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) defines a subpopulation of hypothalamic POMC neurons.

Journal: Brain research 20071201

Title: Functional evaluation of THIQ, a melanocortin 4 receptor agonist, in models of food intake and inflammation.

Journal: Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology 20071201

Title: Thermogenesis activated by central melanocortin signaling is dependent on neurons in the rostral raphe pallidus (rRPa) area.

Journal: Brain research 20071107

Title: Differential activation of the sympathetic innervation of adipose tissues by melanocortin receptor stimulation.

Journal: Endocrinology 20071101

Title: The central melanocortin system directly controls peripheral lipid metabolism.

Journal: The Journal of clinical investigation 20071101

Title: Effect of Angelica gigas extract on melanogenesis in B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: International journal of molecular medicine 20071101

Title: Bremelanotide: an overview of preclinical CNS effects on female sexual function.

Journal: The journal of sexual medicine 20071101

Title: Clinical application of CNS-acting agents in FSD.

Journal: The journal of sexual medicine 20071101

Title: In vitro generated autoimmune regulatory T cells enhance intravitreous allogeneic retinal graft survival.

Journal: Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 20071101

Title: Glycine inhibits melanogenesis in vitro and causes hypopigmentation in vivo.

Journal: Biological & pharmaceutical bulletin 20071101

Title: Centrally acting mechanisms for the treatment of male sexual dysfunction.

Journal: The Urologic clinics of North America 20071101

Title: Gallium-68-labeled DOTA-rhenium-cyclized alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analog for imaging of malignant melanoma.

Journal: Nuclear medicine and biology 20071101

Title: Central administration of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone changes lipid metabolism in chicks.

Journal: Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology 20071001

Title: Activation of POMC neurons during general arousal but not sexual behavior in male rats.

Journal: Behavioral neuroscience 20071001

Title: Substituted NDP-MSH peptides paired with mutant melanocortin-4 receptors demonstrate the role of transmembrane 6 in receptor activation.

Journal: Biochemistry 20070918

Title: Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) is colocalized with the orexigenic neuropeptide Y and agouti-related protein and absent from the anorexigenic alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone neurons in the infundibular nucleus of the human hypothalamus.

Journal: Endocrinology 20070901

Title: Orexin expression is regulated by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.

Journal: Journal of neuroendocrinology 20070901

Title: Mechanisms of melanogenesis inhibition by 2,5-dimethyl-4-hydroxy-3(2H)-furanone.

Journal: The British journal of dermatology 20070801

Title: Peptide and small molecules rescue the functional activity and agonist potency of dysfunctional human melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphisms.

Journal: Biochemistry 20070717

Title: Melanocortin activation of nucleus of the solitary tract avoids anorectic tachyphylaxis and induces prolonged weight loss.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism 20070701

Title: Advances in melanocyte basic science research.

Journal: Dermatologic clinics 20070701

Title: Squalene-derived flexible linkers for bioactive peptides.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20070615

Title: Proopiomelanocortin (POMC), the ACTH/melanocortin precursor, is secreted by human epidermal keratinocytes and melanocytes and stimulates melanogenesis.

Journal: FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20070601

Title: Small-animal PET of melanocortin 1 receptor expression using a 18F-labeled alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analog.

Journal: Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20070601

Title: Protective effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone on pancreas islet cell against peripheral blood mononuclear cell-mediated cytotoxicity in vitro.

Journal: Transplantation proceedings 20070601

Title: Therapeutic efficacy of a 177Lu-labeled DOTA conjugated alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone peptide in a murine melanoma-bearing mouse model.

Journal: Cancer biotherapy & radiopharmaceuticals 20070601

Title: A healthy tan?

Journal: The New England journal of medicine 20070524

Title: Proteochemometric modeling reveals the interaction site for Trp9 modified alpha-MSH peptides in melanocortin receptors.

Journal: Proteins 20070515

Title: Up-regulation of MET expression by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone and MITF allows hepatocyte growth factor to protect melanocytes and melanoma cells from apoptosis.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20070511

Title: Role of nitric oxide in alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-induced hypotension in the nucleus tractus solitarii of the spontaneously hypertensive rats.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 20070501

Title: The anorexic effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone is mediated by corticotrophin-releasing factor in chicks.

Journal: Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A, Molecular & integrative physiology 20070501

Title: Potent and selective agonists of alpha-melanotropin (alphaMSH) action at human melanocortin receptor 5; linear analogs of alpha-melanotropin.

Journal: Peptides 20070501

Title: Cell surface expression of melanocortin-1 receptor on HaCaT keratinocytes and alpha-melanocortin stimulation do not affect the formation and repair of UVB-induced DNA photoproducts.

Journal: Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology 20070501

Title: Potent and selective peptide agonists of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alphaMSH) action at human melanocortin receptor 5; their synthesis and biological evaluation in vitro.

Journal: Chemical biology & drug design 20070501

Title: Central role of p53 in the suntan response and pathologic hyperpigmentation.

Journal: Cell 20070309

Title: Design, synthesis, and validation of a branched flexible linker for bioactive peptides.

Journal: The Journal of organic chemistry 20070302

Title: Enterostatin inhibition of dietary fat intake is modulated through the melanocortin system.

Journal: Peptides 20070301

Title: Melanocortin-3 receptor activates MAP kinase via PI3 kinase.

Journal: Regulatory peptides 20070301

Title: Melanoma imaging with pretargeted bivalent bacteriophage.

Journal: Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20070301

Title: Gastric protection by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone against ethanol in rats: involvement of somatostatin.

Journal: Life sciences 20070220

Title: Peripheral effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone on fatty acid oxidation in skeletal muscle.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20070202

Title: Adenohypophyseal function in bitches treated with medroxyprogesterone acetate.

Journal: Domestic animal endocrinology 20070201

Title: Oxidative stress via hydrogen peroxide affects proopiomelanocortin peptides directly in the epidermis of patients with vitiligo.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20070201

Title: Melanocortins and agouti-related protein modulate the excitability of two arcuate nucleus neuron populations by alteration of resting potassium conductances.

Journal: The Journal of physiology 20070115

Title: Synthesis and biologic evaluation of 64Cu-labeled rhenium-cyclized alpha-MSH peptide analog using a cross-bridged cyclam chelator.

Journal: Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20070101

Title: The effect of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone on gentamicin-induced acute nephrotoxicity in rats.

Journal: Journal of applied toxicology : JAT 20070101

Title: A novel non-synonymous mutation in the melanocortin-4 receptor gene (MC4R) in a 2-year-old Austrian girl with extreme obesity.

Journal: Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association 20070101

Title: 64Cu-labeled alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analog for microPET imaging of melanocortin 1 receptor expression.

Journal: Bioconjugate chemistry 20070101

Title: Melanocortins in the treatment of male and female sexual dysfunction.

Journal: Current topics in medicinal chemistry 20070101

Title: Synthesis and evaluation of bivalent NDP-alpha-MSH(7) peptide ligands for binding to the human melanocortin receptor 4 (hMC4R).

Journal: Bioconjugate chemistry 20070101

Title: Functional characterization of two melanocortin (MC) receptors in lamprey showing orthology to the MC1 and MC4 receptor subtypes.

Journal: BMC evolutionary biology 20070101

Title: Betulin binds to melanocortin receptors and antagonizes alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone induced cAMP generation in mouse melanoma cells.

Journal: Cell biochemistry and function 20070101

Title: A liquid chromatographic/tandem mass spectroscopic method for quantification of the cyclic peptide melanotan-II. Plasma and brain tissue concentrations following administration in mice.

Journal: Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM 20070101

Title: Engineering the melanocortin-4 receptor to control constitutive and ligand-mediated G(S) signaling in vivo.

Journal: PloS one 20070101

Title: Pharmaceutical aphrodisia.

Journal: Current topics in medicinal chemistry 20070101

Title: Alpha-MSH rescues neurons from excitotoxic cell death.

Journal: Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN 20070101

Title: Dimeric DOTA-alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analogs: synthesis and in vivo characteristics of radiopeptides with high in vitro activity.

Journal: Journal of receptor and signal transduction research 20070101

Title: [Subacute toxicity study of combination of adrenocorticotropine 1-13 and met-enkephalin].

Journal: Medicinski arhiv 20070101

Title: Prenatal development of hypothalamic neuropeptide systems in the nonhuman primate.

Journal: Neuroscience 20061228

Title: Alpha-MSH and gamma-MSH modulate early release of hypothalamic PGE2 and NO induced by IL-1beta differently.

Journal: Neuroscience letters 20061206

Title: A comparative study of the central effects of specific proopiomelancortin (POMC)-derived melanocortin peptides on food intake and body weight in pomc null mice.

Journal: Endocrinology 20061201

Title: Point mutations in the melanocortin-4 receptor cause variable obesity in mice.

Journal: Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society 20061201

Title: Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of new cyclic melanotropin peptide analogues selective for the human melanocortin-4 receptor.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20061116

Title: Central receptors mediating the cardiovascular actions of melanocyte stimulating hormones.

Journal: Journal of hypertension 20061101

Title: A role for tyrosinase-related protein 1 in 4-tert-butylphenol-induced toxicity in melanocytes: Implications for vitiligo.

Journal: The American journal of pathology 20061101

Title: The melanocortin agonist, melanotan II, enhances proceptive sexual behaviors in the female rat.

Journal: Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior 20061101

Title: Identification of nesfatin-1 as a satiety molecule in the hypothalamus.

Journal: Nature 20061012

Title: The differential influences of melanocortins on nociception in the formalin and tail flick tests.

Journal: Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior 20061001

Title: Uveal melanocytes do not respond to or express receptors for alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.

Journal: Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 20061001

Title: In melanoma, RAS mutations are accompanied by switching signaling from BRAF to CRAF and disrupted cyclic AMP signaling.

Journal: Cancer research 20061001

Title: Central and peripheral interleukin-1beta and interleukin-1 receptor I expression and their role in the acute stress response of common carp, Cyprinus carpio L.

Journal: The Journal of endocrinology 20061001

Title: Cell signaling and trafficking of human melanocortin receptors in real time using two-photon fluorescence and confocal laser microscopy: differentiation of agonists and antagonists.

Journal: Chemical biology & drug design 20061001

Title: [POMC gene mutations in human].

Journal: Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine 20060928

Title: Distribution of insulin receptor substrate-2 in brain areas involved in energy homeostasis.

Journal: Brain research 20060927

Title: Human mast cells in the neurohormonal network: expression of POMC, detection of precursor proteases, and evidence for IgE-dependent secretion of alpha-MSH.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20060901

Title: Effect of alpha-melanotropin hormone on serum levels of luteinizing hormone and progesterone in experimental rat autoimmune oophoritis.

Journal: Peptides 20060901

Title: Retinoic acid as a novel medical therapy for Cushing's disease in dogs.

Journal: Endocrinology 20060901

Title: Participation of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone in ethanol-induced anxiolysis and withdrawal anxiety in rats.

Journal: Neuropharmacology 20060901

Title: Glutamate stimulation increases hormone release in rat melanotrophs.

Journal: Neuroscience letters 20060901

Title: Regulation of constitutive and UVR-induced skin pigmentation by melanocortin 1 receptor isoforms.

Journal: FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20060901

Title: Melanocortin receptor ligands: new horizons for skin biology and clinical dermatology.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20060901

Title: Plasma profiles of adrenocorticotropic hormone, cortisol, alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, and growth hormone in dogs with pituitary-dependent hyperadrenocorticism before and after hypophysectomy.

Journal: The Journal of endocrinology 20060901

Title: Posttranslational processing of proopiomelanocortin family molecules in sea lamprey based on mass spectrometric and chemical analyses.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20060801

Title: [Nle4-D-Phe7]-alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone significantly increased pigmentation and decreased UV damage in fair-skinned Caucasian volunteers.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20060801

Title: Reducing renal uptake of 90Y- and 177Lu-labeled alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone peptide analogues.

Journal: Nuclear medicine and biology 20060801

Title: Role of the melanocortin system in inflammation.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20060801

Title: Electroporative alpha-MSH gene transfer attenuates thioacetamide-induced murine hepatic fibrosis by MMP and TIMP modulation.

Journal: Gene therapy 20060701

Title: Effects of acrylamide, latrunculin, and nocodazole on intracellular transport and cytoskeletal organization in melanophores.

Journal: Cell motility and the cytoskeleton 20060701

Title: Melanoma prevention strategy based on using tetrapeptide alpha-MSH analogs that protect human melanocytes from UV-induced DNA damage and cytotoxicity.

Journal: FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20060701

Title: Immunoreactivity of corticotropin-releasing hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in alopecia areata.

Journal: Experimental dermatology 20060701

Title: An effect on the subjective sexual response in premenopausal women with sexual arousal disorder by bremelanotide (PT-141), a melanocortin receptor agonist.

Journal: The journal of sexual medicine 20060701

Title: Role of endogenous ghrelin in the hyperphagia of mice with streptozotocin-induced diabetes.

Journal: Endocrinology 20060601

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone gene therapy reverses carbon tetrachloride induced liver fibrosis in mice.

Journal: The journal of gene medicine 20060601

Title: Vitiligo patients present lower plasma levels of alpha-melanotropin immunoreactivities.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20060601

Title: PC1/3 and PC2 gene expression and post-translational endoproteolytic pro-opiomelanocortin processing is regulated by photoperiod in the seasonal Siberian hamster (Phodopus sungorus).

Journal: Journal of neuroendocrinology 20060601

Title: Activation of the melanocortin-4 receptor mobilizes intracellular free calcium in immortalized hypothalamic neurons.

Journal: The Journal of surgical research 20060515

Title: Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone release in response to thyrotropin releasing hormone in healthy horses, horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction and equine pars intermedia explants.

Journal: Domestic animal endocrinology 20060501

Title: Effects of macrocycle size and rigidity on melanocortin receptor-1 and -5 selectivity in cyclic lactam alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analogs.

Journal: Chemical biology & drug design 20060501

Title: Temporal relations between plasma concentrations of luteinizing hormone, follicle-stimulating hormone, estradiol-17beta, progesterone, prolactin, and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone during the follicular, ovulatory, and early luteal phase in the bitch.

Journal: Theriogenology 20060415

Title: Melanocortin modulation of inflammatory cytokine and neuroendocrine responses to endotoxin in the monkey.

Journal: Endocrinology 20060401

Title: Evidence from glut2-null mice that glucose is a critical physiological regulator of feeding.

Journal: Diabetes 20060401

Title: D-aspartate regulates melanocortin formation and function: behavioral alterations in D-aspartate oxidase-deficient mice.

Journal: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20060308

Title: Presynaptic actions of endocannabinoids mediate alpha-MSH-induced inhibition of oxytocin cells.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20060301

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone down-regulates CXC receptors through activation of neutrophil elastase.

Journal: European journal of immunology 20060301

Title: The melanocortin peptide HP228 displays protective effects in acute models of inflammation and organ damage.

Journal: European journal of pharmacology 20060217

Title: Expression of three proopiomelanocortin subtype genes and mass spectrometric identification of POMC-derived peptides in pars distalis and pars intermedia of barfin flounder pituitary.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20060201

Title: The acute stress response of red porgy, Pagrus pagrus, kept on a red or white background.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20060201

Title: Gene transfer of pro-opiomelanocortin prohormone suppressed the growth and metastasis of melanoma: involvement of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-mediated inhibition of the nuclear factor kappaB/cyclooxygenase-2 pathway.

Journal: Molecular pharmacology 20060201

Title: Roles of acetylation and other post-translational modifications in melanocortin function and interactions with endorphins.

Journal: Peptides 20060201

Title: alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone is neuroprotective in rat global cerebral ischemia.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20060201

Title: Inhibitory effect of piperlonguminine on melanin production in melanoma B16 cell line by downregulation of tyrosinase expression.

Journal: Pigment cell research 20060201

Title: Hypothalamic regulatory pathways and potential obesity treatment targets.

Journal: Endocrine 20060201

Title: Molecular characterization of human melanocortin-3 receptor ligand-receptor interaction.

Journal: Biochemistry 20060131

Title: Effect of the melanocortin receptor stimulation or inhibition on ethanol intake in alcohol-preferring rats.

Journal: Peptides 20060101

Title: The role of melanocyte-stimulating hormone in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Journal: Treatments in endocrinology 20060101

Title: [The role of monocytes in the effects of beta-endorphin and selective agonists of mu- and delta-Opiate receptors on the proliferative activity of peripheral blood lymphocytes].

Journal: Fiziologiia cheloveka 20060101

Title: Antimicrobial properties of alpha-MSH and related synthetic melanocortins.

Journal: TheScientificWorldJournal 20060101

Title: Reduced anorexigenic efficacy of leptin, but not of the melanocortin receptor agonist melanotan-II, predicts diet-induced obesity in rats.

Journal: Endocrinology 20051201

Title: Keratinocyte growth factor promotes melanosome transfer to keratinocytes.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20051201

Title: Systemic and pituitary pars intermedia antioxidant capacity associated with pars intermedia oxidative stress and dysfunction in horses.

Journal: American journal of veterinary research 20051201

Title: Molecular interactions of nonpeptide agonists and antagonists with the melanocortin-4 receptor.

Journal: Biochemistry 20051108

Title: Isolation and characterization of antagonist and agonist peptides to the human melanocortin 1 receptor.

Journal: Peptides 20051101

Title: Feeding, body weight, and sensitivity to non-ingestive reward stimuli during and after 12-day continuous central infusions of melanocortin receptor ligands.

Journal: Peptides 20051101

Title: Alpha-MSH, the melanocortin-1 receptor and background adaptation in the Mozambique tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20051101

Title: Detection of functionally active melanocortin receptors and evidence for an immunoregulatory activity of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in human dermal papilla cells.

Journal: Endocrinology 20051101

Title: Signaling pathways implicated in alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone-induced lipolysis in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.

Journal: Journal of cellular biochemistry 20051101

Title: Anorexigenic hormones leptin, insulin, and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone directly induce neurotensin (NT) gene expression in novel NT-expressing cell models.

Journal: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20051012

Title: The regulation of alpha-MSH release by GABA is mediated by a chloride-dependent [Ca2+]c increase in frog melanotrope cells.

Journal: Peptides 20051001

Title: Serotonergic pathways converge upon central melanocortin systems to regulate energy balance.

Journal: Peptides 20051001

Title: Chimeras of the agouti-related protein: insights into agonist and antagonist selectivity of melanocortin receptors.

Journal: Peptides 20051001

Title: ACTH, alpha-MSH, and control of cortisol release: cloning, sequencing, and functional expression of the melanocortin-2 and melanocortin-5 receptor in Cyprinus carpio.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20050901

Title: Human hair follicles display a functional equivalent of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and synthesize cortisol.

Journal: FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20050801

Title: Intracerebroventricular administration of melanotan II increases insulin sensitivity of glucose disposal in mice.

Journal: Diabetologia 20050801

Title: Effects of swim stress and alpha-MSH acute pre-treatment on brain 5-HT transporter and corticosterone receptor.

Journal: Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior 20050801

Title: Melanoma therapy via peptide-targeted {alpha}-radiation.

Journal: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 20050801

Title: Frog melanophores cultured on fluorescent microbeads: biomimic-based biosensing.

Journal: Biosensors & bioelectronics 20050715

Title: Origin of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript-containing axons innervating hypophysiotropic corticotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the rat.

Journal: Endocrinology 20050701

Title: Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone cytoprotective biology in human dermal fibroblast cells.

Journal: Peptides 20050701

Title: Involvement of calpain in melanogenesis of mouse B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: Molecular and cellular biochemistry 20050701

Title: Effects of omega-3 fatty acids on orexigenic and anorexigenic modulators at the onset of anorexia.

Journal: Brain research 20050607

Title: Functional selectivity of melanocortin 4 receptor peptide and nonpeptide agonists: evidence for ligand-specific conformational states.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 20050601

Title: Structure and function of the potent cyclic and linear melanocortin analogues.

Journal: Journal of structural biology 20050601

Title: Effects of melanocortin receptor activation and blockade on ethanol intake: a possible role for the melanocortin-4 receptor.

Journal: Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 20050601

Title: Behavioral responses during the forced swim test are not affected by anti-inflammatory agents or acute illness induced by lipopolysaccharide.

Journal: Behavioural brain research 20050507

Title: Imaging of melanoma using 64Cu- and 86Y-DOTA-ReCCMSH(Arg11), a cyclized peptide analogue of alpha-MSH.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20050421

Title: Leptin-like effects of MTII are augmented in MSG-obese rats.

Journal: Regulatory peptides 20050415

Title: Subpicomolar sensing of delta-opioid receptor ligands by molecular-imprinted polymers using plasmon-waveguide resonance spectroscopy.

Journal: Analytical chemistry 20050415

Title: Co-administration of low doses of intranasal PT-141, a melanocortin receptor agonist, and sildenafil to men with erectile dysfunction results in an enhanced erectile response.

Journal: Urology 20050401

Title: Blockade of melanocortin transmission inhibits cocaine reward.

Journal: The European journal of neuroscience 20050401

Title: Neuropeptides, including neuropeptide Y and melanocortins, mediate lipolysis in murine adipocytes.

Journal: Obesity research 20050401

Title: The extracellular calcium-sensing receptor increases the number of calcium steps and action currents in pituitary melanotrope cells.

Journal: Neuroscience letters 20050329

Title: Novel 3D pharmacophore of alpha-MSH/gamma-MSH hybrids leads to selective human MC1R and MC3R analogues.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20050324

Title: Circulating resistin in lean, obese, and insulin-resistant mouse models: lack of association with insulinemia and glycemia.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism 20050301

Title: Gene structure of the goldfish agouti-signaling protein: a putative role in the dorsal-ventral pigment pattern of fish.

Journal: Endocrinology 20050301

Title: Basomedial hypothalamic injections of neuropeptide Y conjugated to saporin selectively disrupt hypothalamic controls of food intake.

Journal: Endocrinology 20050301

Title: alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone protects from ultraviolet radiation-induced apoptosis and DNA damage.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20050218

Title: A fully functional proopiomelanocortin/melanocortin-1 receptor system regulates the differentiation of human scalp hair follicle melanocytes.

Journal: Endocrinology 20050201

Title: Circulating melanin-concentrating hormone, agouti-related protein, and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone levels in relation to body composition: alterations in response to food deprivation and recombinant human leptin administration.

Journal: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 20050201

Title: Plasma alpha-MSH and acetylated beta-endorphin levels following stress vary according to CRH sensitivity of the pituitary melanotropes in common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20050201

Title: Differential effects of melanin concentrating hormone on the central dopaminergic neurons induced by the cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript peptide.

Journal: Journal of neurochemistry 20050201

Title: Identification of agonists and antagonists of the human melanocortin-4 receptor from piperazinebenzylamines.

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20050201

Title: Neuropeptide Y, alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, and monoamines in food intake regulation.

Journal: Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) 20050201

Title: Alpha-MSH decreases core and brain temperature during global cerebral ischemia in rats.

Journal: Neuroreport 20050119

Title: Sustained inhibitory effect of Agouti Related Protein on the ACTH-induced cortisol production by bovine cultured adrenal cells.

Journal: Regulatory peptides 20050115

Title: A role for the central histaminergic system in the leptin-mediated increase in cardiovascular dynamics.

Journal: Brain research bulletin 20050115

Title: Melanotroph pituitary adenoma in a cat with diabetes mellitus.

Journal: Veterinary pathology 20050101

Title: Acid-base titration of melanocortin peptides: evidence of Trp rotational conformers interconversion.

Journal: Biopolymers 20050101

Title: Hypothalamic resistin immunoreactivity is reduced by obesity in the mouse: co-localization with alpha-melanostimulating hormone.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20050101

Title: Hormonal influences on cancer progression and prognosis.

Journal: Vitamins and hormones 20050101

Title: Effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone on interleukin 8 and monocyte chemotactic protein 1 expression in a human retinal pigment epithelial cell line.

Journal: Ophthalmic research 20050101

Title: Peripheral ghrelin participates in glucostatic feeding mechanisms and in the anorexigenic signalling mediated by CART and CRF neurons.

Journal: Nutritional neuroscience 20050101

Title: The effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone on renal tubular cell apoptosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis in cyclosporine A nephrotoxicity.

Journal: Transplantation 20041227

Title: Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) modulates corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) content and release in the brain of juvenile and adult tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus; Teleostei).

Journal: The Journal of experimental biology 20041201

Title: Ontogeny of corticotropin-releasing factor and of hypothalamic-pituitary-interrenal axis responsiveness to stress in tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus; Teleostei).

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20041201

Title: Changes of hypothalamic alpha-MSH and CART peptide expression in diet-induced obese rats.

Journal: Peptides 20041201

Title: Role of glucocorticoids in the physiopathology of excessive fat deposition and insulin resistance.

Journal: International journal of obesity and related metabolic disorders : journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity 20041201

Title: Piperlonguminine from Piper longum with inhibitory effects on alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-induced melanogenesis in melanoma B16 cells.

Journal: Planta medica 20041201

Title: alpha-MSH and gamma-MSH inhibit IL-1beta induced activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis through central melanocortin receptors.

Journal: Regulatory peptides 20041115

Title: [Body weight regulation through the central nervous system. The development of a pathogenetically based adiposity therapy].

Journal: Medizinische Klinik (Munich, Germany : 1983) 20041115

Title: Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone protects against H2O2-induced inhibition of wound restitution in IEC-6 cells via a Syk kinase- and NF-kappabeta-dependent mechanism.

Journal: Shock (Augusta, Ga.) 20041101

Title: The stimulatory effect of alpha-melanotropin on progesterone release from rat granulosa cells is inhibited by interleukin-1beta and by tumour necrosis factor-alpha.

Journal: Acta physiologica Scandinavica 20041001

Title: Plasma levels of alpha-melanotropin and ACTH-like immunoreactivities do not vary by season or skin type in women from southern and central Europe.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20041001

Title: Single injection of naked plasmid encoding alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone protects against thioacetamide-induced acute liver failure in mice.

Journal: Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20040910

Title: Pharmacotherapy for erectile dysfunction.

Journal: The journal of sexual medicine 20040901

Title: Evidence that the effect of melanocortins on female sexual behavior in preoptic area is mediated by the MC3 receptor; Participation of nitric oxide.

Journal: Behavioural brain research 20040831

Title: Melanocortin peptides stimulate prolactin gene expression and prolactin accumulation in rat pituitary aggregate cell cultures.

Journal: Journal of neuroendocrinology 20040801

Title: The melanocortin agonist melanotan II increases insulin sensitivity in OLETF rats.

Journal: Peptides 20040801

Title: Phenylguanidines as selective nonpeptide melanocortin-5 receptor antagonists.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20040729

Title: Evidence for an interaction between CB1 cannabinoid and melanocortin MCR-4 receptors in regulating food intake.

Journal: Endocrinology 20040701

Title: The role of cyclooxygenase inhibition in the effect of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone on reactive oxygen species production by rat peritoneal neutrophils.

Journal: Prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and essential fatty acids 20040701

Title: Molecular cloning of proopiomelanocortin cDNA and multi-tissue mRNA expression in channel catfish.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20040701

Title: Unabated anorexic and enhanced thermogenic responses to melanotan II in diet-induced obese rats despite reduced melanocortin 3 and 4 receptor expression.

Journal: The Journal of endocrinology 20040701

Title: Down-regulation of melanogenesis by phospholipase D2 through ubiquitin proteasome-mediated degradation of tyrosinase.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 20040625

Title: Eugenol exhibits antidepressant-like activity in mice and induces expression of metallothionein-III in the hippocampus.

Journal: Brain research 20040618

Title: Neuropeptidergic characterization of the leptin receptor mutated obese Koletsky rat.

Journal: Regulatory peptides 20040615

Title: Cyclic AMP promotes a peripheral distribution of melanosomes and stimulates melanophilin/Slac2-a and actin association.

Journal: FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20040601

Title: Melanocortin receptors and erectile function.

Journal: European urology 20040601

Title: Glucocorticoids and melanocortins in the regulation of body weight in humans.

Journal: Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme 20040601

Title: [Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone. Its current significance for dermatology].

Journal: Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete 20040501

Title: Melanoma cell migration is upregulated by tumour necrosis factor-alpha and suppressed by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.

Journal: British journal of cancer 20040405

Title: Evaluation of the safety, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic effects of subcutaneously administered PT-141, a melanocortin receptor agonist, in healthy male subjects and in patients with an inadequate response to Viagra.

Journal: International journal of impotence research 20040401

Title: alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone, MSH 11-13 KPV and adrenocorticotropic hormone signalling in human keratinocyte cells.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20040401

Title: PT-141 Palatin.

Journal: Current opinion in investigational drugs (London, England : 2000) 20040401

Title: De novo design, synthesis, and pharmacology of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone analogues derived from somatostatin by a hybrid approach.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20040311

Title: Upregulation of the pro-opiomelanocortin gene in motoneurones after acrylamide administration in mice.

Journal: Neuroscience letters 20040311

Title: Occurrence of ACTH- and enkephalin-like peptides in the developing gut of Dicentrarchus labrax L.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20040301

Title: Involvement of proopiomenalocortin-derived peptides in endogenous central histamine-induced reversal of critical haemorrhagic hypotension in rats.

Journal: Journal of physiology and pharmacology : an official journal of the Polish Physiological Society 20040301

Title: Radioiodination of rhenium cyclized alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone resulting in enhanced radioactivity localization and retention in melanoma.

Journal: Cancer research 20040215

Title: Biosynthesis of proopiomelanocortin-derived peptides in prohormone convertase 2 and 7B2 null mice.

Journal: Endocrinology 20040201

Title: Agouti-related protein antagonizes glucocorticoid production induced through melanocortin 4 receptor activation in bovine adrenal cells: a possible autocrine control.

Journal: Endocrinology 20040201

Title: Collapse and restoration of MHC class-I-dependent immune privilege: exploiting the human hair follicle as a model.

Journal: The American journal of pathology 20040201

Title: Double-blind, placebo-controlled evaluation of the safety, pharmacokinetic properties and pharmacodynamic effects of intranasal PT-141, a melanocortin receptor agonist, in healthy males and patients with mild-to-moderate erectile dysfunction.

Journal: International journal of impotence research 20040201

Title: Biological and conformational study of beta-substituted prolines in MT-II template: steric effects leading to human MC5 receptor selectivity.

Journal: The journal of peptide research : official journal of the American Peptide Society 20040201

Title: Beta- and gamma-melanocortins inhibit lipopolysaccharide induced nitric oxide production in mice brain.

Journal: Brain research 20040102

Title: Differential release of alpha-melanophore stimulating hormone isoforms by the pituitary gland of red porgy, Pagrus pagrus.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20040101

Title: Inhibition of endotoxin-induced uveitis and potentiation of cyclooxygenase-2 protein expression by alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone.

Journal: Investigative ophthalmology & visual science 20040101

Title: Functional and phylogenetic analyses of a melanocortin-4 receptor mutation in domestic pigs.

Journal: Domestic animal endocrinology 20040101

Title: A gallium-labeled DOTA-alpha-melanocyte- stimulating hormone analog for PET imaging of melanoma metastases.

Journal: Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20040101

Title: The use of animal models to dissect the biology of leptin.

Journal: Recent progress in hormone research 20040101

Title: Alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone has beneficial effects on cerulein-induced acute pancreatitis.

Journal: Peptides 20040101

Title: Somatotroph and corticotroph pituitary adenoma (double adenoma) in a cat with diabetes mellitus and hyperadrenocorticism.

Journal: Journal of comparative pathology 20040101

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone through melanocortin-4 receptor inhibits nitric oxide synthase and cyclooxygenase expression in the hypothalamus of male rats.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20040101

Title: Control of penile erection by the melanocortinergic system: experimental evidences and therapeutic perspectives.

Journal: Journal of andrology 20040101

Title: Plasma renin activity and plasma concentrations of aldosterone, cortisol, adrenocorticotropic hormone, and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in healthy cats.

Journal: Journal of veterinary internal medicine 20040101

Title: Comparison of long-term perifused pars intermedia of Anolis carolinensis, Rana pipiens and Hyla chrysoscelis: their responses to dopamine.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20040101

Title: Electrophysiological effects of melanocortin receptor ligands on neuronal activities of monoaminergic neurons in rats.

Journal: Neuroscience letters 20031219

Title: Identification of two proopiomelanocortin genes in zebrafish (Danio rerio).

Journal: Brain research. Molecular brain research 20031212

Title: Elevated free calcium levels in the subretinal space elevate the absolute dark-adapted threshold in hypopigmented mice.

Journal: Journal of neurophysiology 20031201

Title: Altered glucose homeostasis in proopiomelanocortin-null mouse mutants lacking central and peripheral melanocortin.

Journal: Endocrinology 20031201

Title: Melanocortins applied intravitreally delay retinal dystrophy in Royal College of Surgeons rats.

Journal: Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie 20031201

Title: Adrenalectomy alters the sensitivity of the central nervous system melanocortin system.

Journal: Diabetes 20031201

Title: Adenosine A2A receptor gene disruption provokes marked changes in melanocortin content and pro-opiomelanocortin gene expression.

Journal: Journal of neuroendocrinology 20031201

Title: GABAergic agents prevent alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone induced anxiety and anorexia in rats.

Journal: Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior 20031201

Title: Alcoholism and obesity: overlapping neuropeptide pathways?

Journal: Neuropeptides 20031201

Title: MTII-induced reduction of voluntary ethanol drinking is blocked by pretreatment with AgRP-(83-132).

Journal: Neuropeptides 20031201

Title: [The effects of heat stimulation and cold stress on the rats with cervical sympathectomy].

Journal: Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology 20031201

Title: Chimeric NDP-MSH and MTII melanocortin peptides with agouti-related protein (AGRP) Arg-Phe-Phe amino acids possess agonist melanocortin receptor activity.

Journal: Peptides 20031201

Title: Refractory hypothalamic alpha-mSH satiety and AGRP feeding systems in rats bearing MCA sarcomas.

Journal: Peptides 20031201

Title: Anti-inflammatory and anti-invasive effects of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in human melanoma cells.

Journal: British journal of cancer 20031117

Title: Melanotrope secretory cycle is regulated by physiological inputs via the hypothalamus.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Endocrinology and metabolism 20031101

Title: Regulation of melanocortin 1 receptor expression at the mRNA and protein levels by its natural agonist and antagonist.

Journal: FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20031101

Title: Extensive structure-activity studies of lactam derivatives of MT-II and SHU-9119: their activity and selectivity at human melanocortin receptors 3, 4, and 5.

Journal: The journal of peptide research : official journal of the American Peptide Society 20031101

Title: Hypothalamic neuronal histamine in genetically obese animals: its implication of leptin action in the brain.

Journal: Experimental biology and medicine (Maywood, N.J.) 20031101

Title: Anabolic androgenic steroid nandrolone decanoate reduces hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin mRNA levels.

Journal: Brain research 20031003

Title: [Psychiatric disorders and neural mechanisms underlying energy intake and expenditure: a review].

Journal: Nihon shinkei seishin yakurigaku zasshi = Japanese journal of psychopharmacology 20031001

Title: Further evidence that melanocortins prevent myocardial reperfusion injury by activating melanocortin MC3 receptors.

Journal: European journal of pharmacology 20030923

Title: Structural study of melanocortin peptides by fluorescence spectroscopy: identification of beta-(2-naphthyl)-D-alanine as a fluorescent probe.

Journal: Biochimica et biophysica acta 20030908

Title: Identification of hypothalamic nuclei involved in the orexigenic effect of melanin-concentrating hormone.

Journal: Endocrinology 20030901

Title: Role of p38 MAPK in lupeol-induced B16 2F2 mouse melanoma cell differentiation.

Journal: Journal of biochemistry 20030901

Title: Interaction between alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone and corticotropin-releasing hormone in the regulation of feeding and hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal responses.

Journal: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20030827

Title: Effect of i.c.v. infusion of the alpha-MSH agonist MTII on meal patterns in male rats following nicotine withdrawal.

Journal: Life sciences 20030822

Title: Sub-nanomolar hMC1R agonists by end-capping of the melanocortin tetrapeptide His-D-Phe-Arg-Trp-NH(2).

Journal: Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20030818

Title: Structure-activity relationships of novel cyclic alpha-MSH/beta-MSH hybrid analogues that lead to potent and selective ligands for the human MC3R and human MC5R.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20030814

Title: alpha-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone induces cell death in mast cells: involvement of NF-kappaB.

Journal: FEBS letters 20030814

Title: Dissection of the anti-inflammatory effect of the core and C-terminal (KPV) alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone peptides.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 20030801

Title: Obliteration of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone derived from POMC in pituitary and brains of PC2-deficient mice.

Journal: Journal of neurochemistry 20030801

Title: Adrenocorticotropic hormone directly stimulates testosterone production by the fetal and neonatal mouse testis.

Journal: Endocrinology 20030801

Title: Interaction between the spinal melanocortin and opioid systems in a rat model of neuropathic pain.

Journal: Anesthesiology 20030801

Title: Modulation of GABAA receptors and neuropeptide secretion by the neurosteroid allopregnanolone in posterior and intermediate pituitary.

Journal: Pharmacology & toxicology 20030801

Title: Altered responses to orexigenic (AGRP, MCH) and anorexigenic (alpha-MSH, CART) neuropeptides of paraventricular hypothalamic neurons in early postnatally overfed rats.

Journal: The European journal of neuroscience 20030801

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone stimulates prolactin secretion through melanocortin-3 receptors expressed in mammotropes in the mouse pituitary.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20030801

Title: Neural regulation of blood pressure by leptin and the related peptides.

Journal: Regulatory peptides 20030715

Title: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor regulates energy balance downstream of melanocortin-4 receptor.

Journal: Nature neuroscience 20030701

Title: Evaluating the radiation of the POMC gene in teleosts: characterization of American eel POMC.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20030701

Title: The neuropeptide-degrading enzyme NL1 is expressed in specific neurons of mouse brain.

Journal: Peptides 20030701

Title: Quantitative peptidomics of pituitary glands from mice deficient in copper transport.

Journal: Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France) 20030701

Title: Stable expression of human melanocortin 3 receptor fused to EGFP in the HEK293 cells.

Journal: Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20030620

Title: The administration of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone protects the ischemic/reperfused myocardium.

Journal: European journal of pharmacology 20030606

Title: Recombinant modular transporters for cell-specific nuclear delivery of locally acting drugs enhance photosensitizer activity.

Journal: FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20030601

Title: Molecular cloning, pharmacological characterization, and brain mapping of the melanocortin 4 receptor in the goldfish: involvement in the control of food intake.

Journal: Endocrinology 20030601

Title: Screening of human primary melanocytes of defined melanocortin-1 receptor genotype: pigmentation marker, ultrastructural and UV-survival studies.

Journal: Pigment cell research 20030601

Title: Melanocortin tetrapeptides modified at the N-terminus, His, Phe, Arg, and Trp positions.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: alpha-MSH and desacetyl-alpha-MSH signaling through melanocortin receptors.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: Functional role, structure, and evolution of the melanocortin-4 receptor.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: Anti-inflammatory potential of melanocortin receptor-directed drugs.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: PT-141: a melanocortin agonist for the treatment of sexual dysfunction.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: Identification of a serine protease involved with the regulation of adrenal growth.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: Proopiomelanocortin peptides and sebogenesis.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone is a peripheral, integrative regulator of glucose and fat metabolism.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: Significance of the melanocortin 1 receptor in regulating human melanocyte pigmentation, proliferation, and survival.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: P-locus is a target for the melanogenic effects of MC-1R signaling: a possible control point for facultative pigmentation.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: DOTA alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analogues for imaging metastatic melanoma lesions.

Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20030601

Title: Effects of anaesthesia and manual restraint on the plasma concentrations of pituitary and adrenocortical hormones in ferrets.

Journal: The Veterinary record 20030510

Title: Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of non-peptidic ligands at the Xenopus laevis skin-melanocortin receptor.

Journal: European journal of medicinal chemistry 20030501

Title: Histamine-immunoreactive neurons of the tuberomammillary nucleus are innervated by alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone-containing axons. Generation of a new histamine antiserum for ultrastructural studies.

Journal: Brain research 20030418

Title: Effects of NF-kappa B inhibition on mesenteric ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 20030401

Title: Regulation of melanocortin-4 receptor signaling: agonist-mediated desensitization and internalization.

Journal: Endocrinology 20030401

Title: Pivotal roles of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone and the melanocortin 4 receptor in leptin stimulation of prolactin secretion in rats.

Journal: Journal of neurochemistry 20030401

Title: Inverse agonist activity of agouti and agouti-related protein.

Journal: Peptides 20030401

Title: Proopiomelanocortin-derived peptides in rat cerebrospinal fluid and hypothalamic extracts: evidence that secretion is regulated with respect to energy balance.

Journal: Endocrinology 20030301

Title: Effect of S 17092, a novel prolyl endopeptidase inhibitor, on substance P and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone breakdown in the rat brain.

Journal: Journal of neurochemistry 20030301

Title: Intracellular mechanisms involved in leptin regulation of sympathetic outflow.

Journal: Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 20030301

Title: Restraint stress and corticotropin releasing hormone modulation of murine cutaneous POMC mRNA.

Journal: Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 20030301

Title: Novel alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone peptide analogues with high candidacidal activity.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20030227

Title: ACTH and alpha-MSH inhibit leptin expression and secretion in 3T3-L1 adipocytes: model for a central-peripheral melanocortin-leptin pathway.

Journal: Molecular and cellular endocrinology 20030227

Title: STAT3 signalling is required for leptin regulation of energy balance but not reproduction.

Journal: Nature 20030220

Title: Cellular warriors at the battle of the bulge.

Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.) 20030207

Title: Obesity drug pipeline not so fat.

Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.) 20030207

Title: Regulation of yellow pigment formation in mice: a historical perspective.

Journal: Pigment cell research 20030201

Title: Effects of melanogenesis-inducing nitric oxide and histamine on the production of eumelanin and pheomelanin in cultured human melanocytes.

Journal: Pigment cell research 20030201

Title: Discovery and in vivo evaluation of new melanocortin-4 receptor-selective peptides.

Journal: Peptides 20030201

Title: Agouti-related protein has an inhibitory paracrine role in the rat adrenal gland.

Journal: Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20030131

Title: Immunomodulatory effects of alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone on common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.).

Journal: Veterinary immunology and immunopathology 20030130

Title: Alpha-melanophore-stimulating hormone in the brain, cranial placode derivatives, and retina of Xenopus laevis during development in relation to background adaptation.

Journal: The Journal of comparative neurology 20030127

Title: Central administration of neuropeptide Y reduces alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-induced cyclic adenosine 5'-monophosphate response element binding protein (CREB) phosphorylation in pro-thyrotropin-releasing hormone neurons and increases CREB phosphorylation in corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.

Journal: Endocrinology 20030101

Title: Molecular and behavioral interactions between central melanocortins and cocaine.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 20030101

Title: Ultraviolet B irradiation of the eye activates a nitric oxide-dependent hypothalamopituitary proopiomelanocortin pathway and modulates functions of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-responsive cells.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20030101

Title: Temperature-induced changes in thyrotropin-releasing hormone sensitivity in carp melanotropes.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20030101

Title: Radiolabeled alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analogs for receptor-mediated targeting of melanoma: from tritium to indium.

Journal: Journal of molecular recognition : JMR 20030101

Title: Modulation of melanocortin-induced changes in spinal nociception by mu-opioid receptor agonist and antagonist in neuropathic rats.

Journal: Neuroreport 20021220

Title: The effect of D-aspartate on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone, alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, GABA and dopamine release.

Journal: Neuroreport 20021203

Title: In vitro migration of melanoblasts requires matrix metalloproteinase-2: implications to vitiligo therapy by photochemotherapy.

Journal: Pigment cell research 20021201

Title: Regulation of the human melanocortin 1 receptor expression in epidermal melanocytes by paracrine and endocrine factors and by ultraviolet radiation.

Journal: Pigment cell research 20021201

Title: Hypothalamic regulation of energy homeostasis.

Journal: Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism 20021201

Title: A novel DOTA-alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone analog for metastatic melanoma diagnosis.

Journal: Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20021201

Title: Increased immunoreactivity of POMC-derived neuropeptides and immediate-early gene-derived proteins (c-Fos and Egr-1 proteins) as an early step of acute cocaine-induced stressor effects: comparison with the effects of immobilization stress.

Journal: Nihon Arukoru Yakubutsu Igakkai zasshi = Japanese journal of alcohol studies & drug dependence 20021201

Title: Central melanocortin receptor agonist reduces spontaneous and scheduled meal size but does not augment duodenal preload-induced feeding inhibition.

Journal: Physiology & behavior 20021101

Title: Melanoma cell attachment, invasion, and integrin expression is upregulated by tumor necrosis factor alpha and suppressed by alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone.

Journal: The Journal of investigative dermatology 20021101

Title: Effects of melanocortin receptor ligands on ethanol intake and opioid peptide levels in alcohol-preferring AA rats.

Journal: Brain research bulletin 20021030

Title: In vivo evaluation of 188Re-labeled alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone peptide analogs for melanoma therapy.

Journal: International journal of cancer 20021010

Title: I plasma concentrations of adrenocorticotrophic hormone and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) with hyperadrenocorticism.

Journal: American journal of veterinary research 20021001

Title: Hypothalamic interactions between neuropeptide Y, agouti-related protein, cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript and alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in vitro in male rats.

Journal: Journal of neuroendocrinology 20020901

Title: Estradiol treatment fails to affect the feeding responses to melanocortin-3/4 receptor agonism or antagonism in ovariectomized rats.

Journal: Peptides 20020901

Title: Mechanisms of flavonoid repair reactions with amino acid radicals in models of biological systems: a pulse radiolysis study in micelles and human serum albumin.

Journal: Biochimica et biophysica acta 20020815

Title: Behavioural and neuroendocrine effects of environmental background colour and social interaction in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus).

Journal: The Journal of experimental biology 20020801

Title: Regulation of cellular alpha-MSH and beta-endorphin during stimulated secretion from intermediate pituitary cells: involvement of aspartyl and cysteine proteases in the control of cellular levels of alpha-MSH and beta-endorphin.

Journal: Peptides 20020801

Title: Relationships between obesity and metabolic hormones in the 'cobalt' variant of rainbow trout.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20020801

Title: Activation of central melanocortin pathways by fenfluramine.

Journal: Science (New York, N.Y.) 20020726

Title: The activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors differentially affects GABA and alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone release from the hypothalamus and the posterior pituitary of male rats.

Journal: Neuroscience letters 20020719

Title: Modification of the structure of a metallopeptide: synthesis and biological evaluation of (111)In-labeled DOTA-conjugated rhenium-cyclized alpha-MSH analogues.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20020704

Title: Structure-activity relationships of the melanocortin tetrapeptide Ac-His-DPhe-Arg-Trp-NH(2) at the mouse melanocortin receptors. 1. Modifications at the His position.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20020620

Title: Activity and conformation of a cyclic heptapeptide possessing the message sequence His-Phe-Arg-Trp of alpha-melanotropin.

Journal: International journal of biological macromolecules 20020618

Title: Novel cyclic templates of alpha-MSH give highly selective and potent antagonists/agonists for human melanocortin-3/4 receptors.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20020606

Title: Mechanisms of flavonoid repair reactions with amino acid radicals in models of biological systems: a pulse radiolysis study in micelles and human serum albumin.

Journal: Biochimica et biophysica acta 20020606

Title: The leptin-like effects of 3-d peripheral administration of a melanocortin agonist are more marked in genetically obese Zucker (fa/fa) than in lean rats.

Journal: Endocrinology 20020601

Title: Intrapituitary adenoviral administration of 7B2 can extend life span and reverse endocrinological deficiencies in 7B2 null mice.

Journal: Endocrinology 20020601

Title: Downregulation of glucocorticoid receptors of liver cytosols and the role of the inflammatory cytokines in pathological stress in scalded rats.

Journal: Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries 20020601

Title: Differentiation of human melanoma cells through p38 MAP kinase is associated with decreased retinoblastoma protein phosphorylation and cell cycle arrest.

Journal: Melanoma research 20020601

Title: Diplodus sargus interrenal-pituitary response: chemical communication in stressed fish.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20020601

Title: [New medications for treatment of erectile dysfunction].

Journal: Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine 20020601

Title: alpha-Melanocyte-simulating hormone and interleukin-10 do not protect the kidney against mercuric chloride-induced injury.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Renal physiology 20020501

Title: Neuropeptide Y inhibits spontaneous alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) release via a Y(5) receptor and suppresses thyrotropin-releasing hormone-induced alpha-MSH secretion via a Y(1) receptor in frog melanotrope cells.

Journal: Endocrinology 20020501

Title: Effects of acute and chronic administration of the melanocortin agonist MTII in mice with diet-induced obesity.

Journal: Diabetes 20020501

Title: Multiple control and dynamic response of the Xenopus melanotrope cell.

Journal: Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & molecular biology 20020501

Title: Effects of MCH/NEI in the striatum and interactions between them and with alpha-MSH on IP3 levels.

Journal: Peptides 20020501

Title: Behavioral processes underlying the intake suppressive effects of melanocortin 3/4 receptor activation in the rat.

Journal: Psychopharmacology 20020401

Title: The melanocortin receptor agonist MTII augments the rewarding effect of amphetamine in ad-libitum-fed and food-restricted rats.

Journal: Psychopharmacology 20020401

Title: The hypothalamic melanocortin system stimulates the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in vitro and in vivo in male rats.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20020401

Title: The human genetics of eating disorders lessons from the leptin/melanocortin system.

Journal: Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America 20020401

Title: Injection of alpha-MSH, but not beta-endorphin, into the PVN decreases POMC gene expression in the ARC.

Journal: Neuroreport 20020325

Title: Attenuation of diabetic hyperphagia in neuropeptide Y--deficient mice.

Journal: Diabetes 20020301

Title: Cloned mice have an obese phenotype not transmitted to their offspring.

Journal: Nature medicine 20020301

Title: Chronic application of MTII in a rat model of obesity results in sustained weight loss.

Journal: Obesity research 20020301

Title: Effects of alpha-MSH on progesterone and nitric oxide release by cultured ovarian granulosa cells in experimental rat autoimmune oophoritis.

Journal: Journal of physiology and biochemistry 20020301

Title: Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone peptide analogs labeled with technetium-99m and indium-111 for malignant melanoma targeting.

Journal: Cancer 20020215

Title: Membrane-active properties of alpha-MSH analogs: aggregation and fusion of liposomes triggered by surface-conjugated peptides.

Journal: Biochimica et biophysica acta 20020201

Title: Stress response to waterborne Cu during early life stages of carp, Cyprinus carpio.

Journal: Aquatic toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 20020201

Title: alpha-Melanocyte stimulating hormone and oxytocin induced penile erections, and intracavernous pressure increases in the rat.

Journal: The Journal of urology 20020201

Title: Chronic infusion of a melanocortin receptor agonist modulates dopamine receptor binding in the rat brain.

Journal: Pharmacological research 20020201

Title: Regulation of ornithine decarboxylase in B16 mouse melanoma cells: synergistic activation of melanogenesis by alphaMSH and ornithine decarboxylase inhibition.

Journal: Biochimica et biophysica acta 20020130

Title: Ligand-dependent activation of the melanocortin 5 receptor: cAMP production and ryanodine receptor-dependent elevations of [Ca(2+)](I).

Journal: Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20020118

Title: A Novel homozygous missense mutation of melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) in a Japanese woman with severe obesity.

Journal: Diabetes 20020101

Title: Effects of alpha-MSH on kainic acid induced changes in core temperature in rats.

Journal: Peptides 20020101

Title: Effect of anti-inflammatory cytokines on the activation of lymphocytes by lacrimal gland acinar cells in an autologous mixed cell reaction.

Journal: Advances in experimental medicine and biology 20020101

Title: Identification of a novel GH isoform: a possible link between GH and melanocortin systems in the developing chicken eye.

Journal: Endocrinology 20011201

Title: Chronic blockade of melanocortin receptors alleviates allodynia in rats with neuropathic pain.

Journal: Anesthesia and analgesia 20011201

Title: Activation of central melanocortin receptors by MT-II increases cavernosal pressure in rabbits by the neuronal release of NO.

Journal: British journal of pharmacology 20011201

Title: Evaluation of an (111)In-DOTA-rhenium cyclized alpha-MSH analog: a novel cyclic-peptide analog with improved tumor-targeting properties.

Journal: Journal of nuclear medicine : official publication, Society of Nuclear Medicine 20011201

Title: The effect of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone on endotoxin-induced intestinal injury.

Journal: Peptides 20011201

Title: The effect of thioredoxin on the expression of proopiomelanocortin-derived peptides, the melanocortin 1 receptor and cell survival of normal human keratinocytes.

Journal: The journal of investigative dermatology. Symposium proceedings 20011101

Title: Intracellular signalling. Key enzyme in leptin-induced anorexia.

Journal: Nature 20011025

Title: Neuropathic pain: a possible role for the melanocortin system?

Journal: European journal of pharmacology 20011019

Title: Transforming growth factor beta1 mediates hypopigmentation of B16 mouse melanoma cells by inhibition of melanin formation and melanosome maturation.

Journal: The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology 20011001

Title: Central melanocortin receptors regulate insulin action.

Journal: The Journal of clinical investigation 20011001

Title: Lack of neuronal NOS has consequences for the expression of POMC and POMC-derived peptides in the mouse pituitary.

Journal: Acta histochemica 20011001

Title: Correlation of increased grooming behavior and motor activity with alterations in nigrostriatal and mesolimbic catecholamines after alpha-melanotropin and neuropeptide glutamine-isoleucine injection in the rat ventral tegmental area.

Journal: Cellular and molecular neurobiology 20011001

Title: New agents for the treatment of cancer-related fatigue.

Journal: Cancer 20010915

Title: Minimization of MC1R selectivity by modification of the core structure of alpha-MSH-ND.

Journal: Chemistry & biology 20010901

Title: Potent and selective peptide agonists of alpha-melanotropin action at human melanocortin receptor 4: their synthesis and biological evaluation in vitro.

Journal: Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20010824

Title: alpha-MSH decreases apoptosis in ischaemic acute renal failure in rats: possible mechanism of this beneficial effect.

Journal: Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association 20010801

Title: Cellular and hormonal regulation of pigmentation in human ocular melanocytes.

Journal: Pigment cell research 20010801

Title: The MC4 receptor mediates alpha-MSH induced release of nucleus accumbens dopamine.

Journal: Neuroreport 20010720

Title: Transgenic expression of syndecan-1 uncovers a physiological control of feeding behavior by syndecan-3.

Journal: Cell 20010713

Title: Hypothalamic control of photoperiod-induced cycles in food intake, body weight, and metabolic hormones in rams.

Journal: American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology 20010701

Title: Melanotrope cell plasticity: a key mechanism for the physiological adaptation to background color changes.

Journal: Endocrinology 20010701

Title: Characterization of melanocortin NDP-MSH agonist peptide fragments at the mouse central and peripheral melanocortin receptors.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 20010621

Title: Protective effect of melanocortin peptides in rat myocardial ischemia.

Journal: The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics 20010601

Title: Amphibian melanotrope subpopulations respond differentially to hypothalamic secreto-inhibitors.

Journal: Neuroendocrinology 20010601

Title: Determination of equilibrium dissociation constants in fluorescence polarization.

Journal: Journal of biomolecular screening 20010601

Title: Comparative EPR and fluorescence conformational studies of fully active spin-labeled melanotropic peptides.

Journal: FEBS letters 20010525

Title: Structure activity studies of the melanocortin-4 receptor by in vitro mutagenesis: identification of agouti-related protein (AGRP), melanocortin agonist and synthetic peptide antagonist interaction determinants.

Journal: Biochemistry 20010522

Title: Interaction of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone with binary phospholipid membranes: structural changes and relevance of phase behavior.

Journal: Biophysical journal 20010501

Title: Plasma levels of agouti-related protein are increased in obese men.

Journal: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 20010501

Title: The mammalian pituitary intermediate lobe: an update on innervation and regulation.

Journal: Brain research bulletin 20010401

Title: Cysteine residues are involved in structure and function of melanocortin 1 receptor: Substitution of a cysteine residue in transmembrane segment two converts an agonist to antagonist.

Journal: Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20010309

Title: Effects of melanocortin peptides on lipopolysaccharide/interferon-gamma-induced NF-kappaB DNA binding and nitric oxide production in macrophage-like RAW 264.7 cells: evidence for dual mechanisms of action.

Journal: Biochemical pharmacology 20010301

Title: Identification of avian alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the eye: temporal and spatial regulation of expression in the developing chicken.

Journal: The Journal of endocrinology 20010301

Title: Pituitary and interrenal function in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata L., Teleostei) after handling and confinement stress.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20010301

Title: Adrenocorticotropic hormone activates an outward current in cultured mouse peritoneal macrophages.

Journal: Journal of neuroimmunology 20010215

Title: Enhancement of gene delivery by an analogue of alpha-MSH in a receptor-independent fashion.

Journal: Biochimica et biophysica acta 20010209

Title: Melanocortin receptor-mediated mobilization of intracellular free calcium in HEK293 cells.

Journal: Physiological genomics 20010207

Title: Differential regulation of cAMP-mediated gene transcription and ligand selectivity by MC3R and MC4R melanocortin receptors.

Journal: European journal of biochemistry 20010201

Title: Tyrosine levels regulate the melanogenic response to alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in human melanocytes: implications for pigmentation and proliferation.

Journal: Pigment cell research 20010201

Title: Design of new small cyclic melanocortin receptor-binding peptides using molecular modelling: Role of the His residue in the melanocortin peptide core.

Journal: European journal of medicinal chemistry 20010201

Title: The gamma(2)-MSH peptide mediates a central analgesic effect via a GABA-ergic mechanism that is independent from activation of melanocortin receptors.

Journal: Neuropeptides 20010201

Title: Antagonist and agonist activities of the mouse agouti protein fragment (91-131) at the melanocortin-1 receptor.

Journal: Journal of receptor and signal transduction research 20010201

Title: Interaction of melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH), neuropeptide E-I (NEI), neuropeptide G-E (NGE), and alpha-MSH with melanocortin and MCH receptors on mouse B16 melanoma cells.

Journal: Journal of receptor and signal transduction research 20010201

Title: AgRP(83-132) acts as an inverse agonist on the human-melanocortin-4 receptor.

Journal: Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.) 20010101

Title: Effects of neuropeptides and leptin on nutrient partitioning: dysregulations in obesity.

Journal: Annual review of medicine 20010101

Title: The effect of melanotropic peptides on binding of [(3)H]dihydroalprenolol-hydrochloride to hypothalamic membranes.

Journal: Peptides 20010101

Title: Natural and synthetic agonists of the melanocortin receptor type 3 possess anti-inflammatory properties.

Journal: Journal of leukocyte biology 20010101

Title: The Asp84Glu variant of the MC1R gene in Norwegian melanoma patients.

Journal: Acta dermato-venereologica 20010101

Title: Cytoprotective effects of met-enkephalin and alpha-MSH on ethanol induced gastric lesions in rats.

Journal: Journal of physiology, Paris 20010101

Title: Differential effects of alpha-, beta- and gamma(2)-melanocyte-stimulating hormones on hypothalamic neuronal activation and feeding in the fasted rat.

Journal: Neuroscience 20010101

Title: Molecular determinants of ligand binding to the human melanocortin-4 receptor.

Journal: Biochemistry 20001205

Title: Identification of acylpeptide hydrolase as a sensitive site for reaction with organophosphorus compounds and a potential target for cognitive enhancing drugs.

Journal: Molecular pharmacology 20000901

Title: Pharmacologic response of a controlled-release PLGA formulation for the alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone analog, Melanotan-I.

Journal: Pharmaceutical research 20000501

Title: Surface changes and hormone production in pituitary cells during tumorigenesis.

Journal: Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR 19991201

Title: Characterization of melanocortin receptor ligands on cloned brain melanocortin receptors and on grooming behavior in the rat.

Journal: European journal of pharmacology 19990813

Title: In vivo evaluation of 99mTc/188Re-labeled linear alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone analogs for specific melanoma targeting.

Journal: Nuclear medicine and biology 19990801

Title: Further pharmacological characterization of the selective melanocortin 4 receptor antagonist HS014: comparison with SHU9119.

Journal: Neuropeptides 19990601

Title: Motor and learning dysfunction during postnatal development in mice defective in dopamine neuronal transmission.

Journal: Journal of neuroscience research 19981115

Title: Comparative conformational studies on cyclic hexapeptides corresponding to message sequence His-Phe-Arg-Trp of alpha-melanotropin by NMR.

Journal: The journal of peptide research : official journal of the American Peptide Society 19980401

Title: Discovery of prototype peptidomimetic agonists at the human melanocortin receptors MC1R and MC4R.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 19970704

Title: Skin pigmentation and pharmacokinetics of melanotan-I in humans.

Journal: Biopharmaceutics & drug disposition 19970401

Title: Comparative biological activities of alpha-MSH antagonists in vertebrate pigment cells.

Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 19970301

Title: Three-dimensional molecular models of the hMC1R melanocortin receptor: complexes with melanotropin peptide agonists.

Journal: Drug design and discovery 19961201

Title: Characterisation of the melanocortin 4 receptor by radioligand binding.

Journal: Pharmacology & toxicology 19960901

Title: Evaluation of melanotan-II, a superpotent cyclic melanotropic peptide in a pilot phase-I clinical study.

Journal: Life sciences 19960101

Title: Topographical modification of melanotropin peptide analogues with beta-methyltryptophan isomers at position 9 leads to differential potencies and prolonged biological activities.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 19951110

Title: Cyclic lactam alpha-melanotropin analogues of Ac-Nle4-cyclo[Asp5, D-Phe7,Lys10] alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-(4-10)-NH2 with bulky aromatic amino acids at position 7 show high antagonist potency and selectivity at specific melanocortin receptors.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 19950901

Title: Characterisation of melanocortin receptor subtypes by radioligand binding analysis.

Journal: European journal of pharmacology 19950215

Title: Discovery and structure-function analysis of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone antagonists.

Journal: The Journal of biological chemistry 19941125

Title: Discovery of an alpha-melanotropin antagonist effective in vivo.

Journal: Peptides 19940101

Title: Peptide alpha-amidation and peptidylglycine alpha-hydroxylating monooxygenase: control by disulfiram.

Journal: Molecular pharmacology 19931101

Title: Isolation and structural characterization of peptides related to alpha- and gamma-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) from the frog brain.

Journal: Brain research. Molecular brain research 19920901

Title: Biological activities of melanotropic peptide fatty acid conjugates.

Journal: Pigment cell research 19911001

Title: Synthesis of alpha-MSH fragments containing phenylalanine mustard for receptor studies.

Journal: International journal of peptide and protein research 19900901

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Journal: International journal of peptide and protein research 19900301

Title: Proopiomelanocortin (POMC)-derived peptides and sleep in the rat. Part 2--Aminergic regulatory processes.

Journal: Neuropeptides 19900201

Title: Enhancement of Candida albicans killing activity of separated human epidermal cells by alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone.

Journal: The British journal of dermatology 19890701

Title: Design of potent linear alpha-melanotropin 4-10 analogues modified in positions 5 and 10.

Journal: Journal of medicinal chemistry 19890101

Title: Alpha-melanotropin: the minimal active sequence in the lizard skin bioassay.

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Title: 4-Norleucine, 7-D-phenylalanine-alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone: a highly potent alpha-melanotropin with ultralong biological activity.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19801001

Title: Nr4a1 siRNA expression attenuates α-MSH regulated gene expression in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.

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