Publication Date:
1980-01-04
Description:
Cerebrovascular permeability of four modified opioid peptides--[D-Ala2]methionine enkephalin amide, beta-[D-Ala62,14C-Homoarg69]lipotropin 61 -69, alpha-[D-Ala2,14C-Homoarg9]endorphin, and beta-[D-Ala2,14C-Homoarg]endorphin--ranged from 1.4 to 3.9 X 10(-6) centimeters per second in brain regions of the conscous rat. These significant permeabilities should allow the peptides to fill the extracellular brain space with a half time of 3 to 11 minutes, as a result of a step increase in plasma concentration of unbound peptide.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rapoport, S I -- Klee, W A -- Pettigrew, K D -- Ohno, K -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Jan 4;207(4426):84-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7350645" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Blood-Brain Barrier
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Brain/*metabolism
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Capillary Permeability
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Endorphins/*metabolism
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Enkephalins/metabolism
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Extracellular Space/metabolism
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Male
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Rats
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Solubility
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beta-Lipotropin/*metabolism
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
