Publication Date:
1997-07-25
Description:
C-peptide, a cleavage product from the processing of proinsulin to insulin, has been considered to possess little if any biological activity other than its participation in insulin synthesis. Injection of human C-peptide prevented or attenuated vascular and neural (electrophysiological) dysfunction and impaired Na+- and K+-dependent adenosine triphosphate activity in tissues of diabetic rats. Nonpolar amino acids in the midportion of the peptide were required for these biological effects. Synthetic reverse sequence (retro) and all-D-amino acid (enantio) C-peptides were equipotent to native C-peptide, which indicates that the effects of C-peptide on diabetic vascular and neural dysfunction were mediated by nonchiral interactions instead of stereospecific receptors or binding sites.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ido, Y -- Vindigni, A -- Chang, K -- Stramm, L -- Chance, R -- Heath, W F -- DiMarchi, R D -- Di Cera, E -- Williamson, J R -- EY 06600/EY/NEI NIH HHS/ -- HL 39934/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- HL 58141/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Jul 25;277(5325):563-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9228006" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Blood Circulation/drug effects
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Blood Glucose/metabolism
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C-Peptide/*chemistry/pharmacology/*therapeutic use
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Capillary Permeability/drug effects
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Circular Dichroism
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Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/drug therapy/physiopathology
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Diabetic Angiopathies/*prevention & control
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Diabetic Neuropathies/*prevention & control
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Humans
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Male
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Neural Conduction/drug effects
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Peptide Fragments/pharmacology
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Rats
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Rats, Sprague-Dawley
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Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase/metabolism
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Stereoisomerism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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