期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1978
卷号:75
期号:8
页码:4021-4023
DOI:10.1073/pnas.75.8.4021
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Striatal extracts of guinea pigs, rats, and cattle were found to contain two large proteins (greater than 40,000 and greater than 100,000 daltons) that on treatment with trypsin yield opioid peptides differing chromatographically from the opioid nonapeptide generated by trypsin digestion of endorphins, beta-lipotropin, or pro-opiocortin. Furthermore, the large opioid proteins found in the pituitary do not appear to be present in the striatum. These and other findings indicate that the striatal enkephalins are produced via a pathway from the one deduced from studies on the pituitary.