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Item No. 36715

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Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a neuropeptide involved in appetite, vasoconstriction, cardiac contractility, and intestinal secretion and an agonist of the NPY receptors Y1, Y2, and Y5.1,2 It is expressed throughout the body.1 NPY selectively inhibits forskolin-induced cAMP accumulation in L-M(TK-) cells expressing rat Y1 or Y2 and HEK293 cells expressing rat Y5 over L-M(TK-) cells expressing rat Y4 receptors (EC50s = 0.15, 2.7, 0.66, and >1,000 nM, respectively).2 It increases perfusion pressure in isolated guinea pig heart (EC30 = 1.3 nM).3 Intracerebroventricular administration of NPY (300 pmol/animal) increases food intake in rats.2
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1. Neuropeptide Y family of hormones: Receptor subtypes and antagonists. Peptides 18(3), 445-457 (1997).
2. A receptor subtype involved in neuropeptide-
3. The vasoconstrictor effect of neuropeptide Y and related peptides in the guinea pig isolated heart. Peptides 7(1), 27-31 (1986).