The effects of galanin and galanin fragments on cardiac vagal action and blood pressure in the anaesthetised cat
REGULATORY PEPTIDES(1993)
Abstract
Galanin (GAL), 29 amino acid peptide, has previously been shown to inhibit cardiac vagal action, and to cause a fall in systemic blood pressure in anaesthetised cats, at a dose of 6.2 nmol/kg. Here, the biological activity of exogenous GAL fragments was assessed in anaesthetised cats. GAL 1-16 at a dose equimolar with the full GAL 1-29 peptide (6.2 nmol/kg) and at a dose five times the molar dose of GAL 1-29 (31 nmol/kg), was found to be biologically active although the effects were less than that of the full peptide. GAL 1-15 at doses up to 10-times the molar dose of GAL 1-29, however, was not active, suggesting that amino acid 16, isoleucine, is critical for activity. In addition, GAL 15-29 and 21-29 showed no biological activity at doses up to 10-times the molar dose of GAL 1-29. These results suggest that the N-terminal rather than the C-terminal end of the GAL molecule is the one responsible for most of GAL's biological activity in this preparation.
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PEPTIDE,PARASYMPATHETIC,SYMPATHETIC
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