...Alison K. Hall; Sally E. MacPhedran ABSTRACT Adult rat sympathetic neurons can possess specific neuropeptides utilized as cotransmitters along with norepinephrine, but the factors that regulate their expression remain unknown. 60% of adult rat superior cervical ganglion (SCG) neurons express...

... to the establishment of a unique model system for studying how a neuropeptide gene program in four distinct cell groups is set up in pituitary and forebrain. The embryonic onset and patterning of POMC expression was found to be spatially and temporally correlated inside and outside the brain. The first POMC cells...

... chromatography identified this factor as cardioac-celeratory peptide 2 (CAP 2 ). Using an in vitro heart bioassay, the levels of this cardioactive neuropeptide were traced during the development of the M. sexta embryo. As with the immunohistochemical results, two periods during embryogenesis were identified...