Enkelytin and opioid peptide association in invertebrates and vertebrates: immune activation and pain

✍ Scribed by George B Stefano; Beatrice Salzet; Gregory L Fricchione

• Book ID: 104298912
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-5699
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-5699(98)01268-7

✦ Synopsis

here is growing interest in documenting the presence and significance of neuropeptides in the immune system. There is also renewed interest in examining the evolutionary significance of various signaling molecules, and their functions and involvement in a variety of organisms. This report focuses on the role of opioid neuropeptides in immunology and autoimmunoregulation 1 using information gained from invertebrates and human immunocytes.