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Pharmacological characterization of human and murine neuropeptide s receptor variants.
The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics - 1 Dec 2005
Reinscheid Rainer K, Xu Yan-Ling, Okamura Naoe, Zeng Joanne, Chung Shinjae, Pai Rama, Wang Zhiwei, Civelli Olivier
Abstract excerpt
We have recently shown that Neuropeptide S (NPS) can promote arousal and induce anxiolytic-like effects after central administration in rodents. Another study reported a number of natural polymorphisms in the human NPS receptor gene. Some of these polymorphisms were associated with increased risk of asthma and possibly other forms of atopic diseases, but the physiological consequences of the mutations remain...
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