In chick and rat hypothalamus and cerebral cortex, chicken VIP was significantly more potent than mammalian VIP in evoking a cyclic AMP response.
In plain wordsIn lab tests on chick and rat brain tissue, chicken VIP raised the cell signal cAMP more strongly than mammalian VIP.
- Outcome
- IncreasecAMP formation with chicken VIP versus mammalian VIP
- Study
chick, ratn: not reported in source
Hypothalamus and cerebral cortex of chick and rat- Comparator
- Mammalian (human/porcine/rat) VIP
- Outcome group
- Receptor activity and mechanism · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- 0.01-3 microMAs given in this study (chick, rat).
Source sentences
In four tested biological systems, the chicken VIP appeared to be significantly more potent in evoking cyclic AMP response than its mammalian counterpart, the differences were more pronounced in the chick tissues, particularly in the hypothalamus, where the mammalian peptide produced only weak (but…
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Chicken and mammalian (human/porcine/rat) vasoactive intestinal peptides (VIP; 0.01-3 microM), whose structures differ by four amino acid residues in 11, 13, 26 and 28 positions, were compared with respect to their ability to stimulate adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) formation in t…