"Enkephalin, Leucine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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One of the endogenous pentapeptides with morphine-like activity. It differs from MET-ENKEPHALIN in the LEUCINE at position 5. Its first four amino acid sequence is identical to the tetrapeptide sequence at the N-terminal of BETA-ENDORPHIN.
| Descriptor ID |
D004743
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.400.575.281.231 D12.776.631.650.575.281.231
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| Concept/Terms |
Enkephalin, Leucine- Enkephalin, Leucine
- Leucine Enkephalin
- 5-Leucine Enkephalin
- 5 Leucine Enkephalin
- Enkephalin, 5-Leucine
- Leu(5)-Enkephalin
- Leu-Enkephalin
- Leu Enkephalin
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Enkephalin, Leucine" by people in Profiles.
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Different responses to opioids measured in terminals and somas of Edinger-Westphal neurons. Neuroscience. 1993 Nov; 57(2):425-32.
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Amygdaloid kindling increases enkephalin-like immunoreactivity but decreases dynorphin-A-like immunoreactivity in rat hippocampus. Neurosci Lett. 1986 Oct 30; 71(1):31-6.
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Dynorphin- and enkephalin-like immunoreactivity is altered in limbic-basal ganglia regions of rat brain after repeated electroconvulsive shock. J Neurosci. 1986 Mar; 6(3):644-9.
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Sensitization to repeated enkephalin administration into the ventral tegmental area of the rat. I. Behavioral characterization. J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1985 Nov; 235(2):537-43.