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Review
. 2015 Oct:72:128-44.
doi: 10.1016/j.peptides.2015.04.026. Epub 2015 May 11.

Insights into bombesin receptors and ligands: Highlighting recent advances

Irene Ramos-Álvarez  1 , Paola Moreno  1 , Samuel A Mantey  1 , Taichi Nakamura  1 , Bernardo Nuche-Berenguer  1 , Terry W Moody  2 , David H Coy  3 , Robert T Jensen  4
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Insights into bombesin receptors and ligands: Highlighting recent advances

Irene Ramos-Álvarez et al. Peptides. 2015 Oct.

Abstract

This following article is written for Prof. Abba Kastin's Festschrift, to add to the tribute to his important role in the advancement of the role of peptides in physiological, as well as pathophysiological processes. There have been many advances during the 35 years of his prominent role in the Peptide field, not only as editor of the journal Peptides, but also as a scientific investigator and editor of two volumes of the Handbook of Biological Active Peptides [146,147]. Similar to the advances with many different peptides, during this 35 year period, there have been much progress made in the understanding of the pharmacology, cell biology and the role of (bombesin) Bn receptors and their ligands in various disease states, since the original isolation of bombesin from skin of the European frog Bombina bombina in 1970 [76]. This paper will briefly review some of these advances over the time period of Prof. Kastin 35 years in the peptide field concentrating on the advances since 2007 when many of the results from earlier studies were summarized [128,129]. It is appropriate to do this because there have been 280 articles published in Peptides during this time on bombesin-related peptides and it accounts for almost 5% of all publications. Furthermore, 22 Bn publications we have been involved in have been published in either Peptides [14,39,55,58,81,92,93,119,152,216,225,226,231,280,302,309,355,361,362] or in Prof. Kastin's Handbook of Biological Active Peptides [137,138,331].

Keywords: Bombesin; Gastrin releasing peptide; Neuromedin b; Obesity; Pruritus.

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