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Item No. 24773

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PACAP-related peptide (PRP) is an endogenous 29-amino acid peptide that belongs to the secretin/glucagon superfamily of peptides, which includes secretin (Item No. 24561), glucagon (Item No. 24204), glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1; Item No. 24460), GLP-2 (Item No. 24414), and pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP; Item Nos. 24769 | 24770).1,2 It is expressed in rat hypothalamus as well as within the nerves of the median eminence, the anterior pituitary, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, cerebellum, cerebral cortex, and amygdala.3,4 PRP is also expressed in vaginal, uterine cervical, uterine horn, fallopian tube, and ovarian tissues from the rat female genital tract and is present in extracts of male testis tissue.5,6
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1. Pituitary adenylate cyclase-
2. PACAP-
3. Gene expression of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) in the rat hypothalamus. Regul. Pept. 55(2), 133-148 (1995).
4. Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide-
5. Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide innervation of the rat female reproductive tract and the associated paracervical ganglia: Effect of capsaicin. Neuroscience 73(4), 1049-1060 (1996).
6. Expression of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) gene by rat spermatogenic cells. Regul. Pept. 55(1), 111-115 (1995).