Background: In patients undergoing neurosurgeries, inflammation and infection are strongly related; however, can be present without infection. Midregional proadrenomedullin (MR-proADM) is a relatively new sepsis biomarker that rarely used clinically. Recently, the concept of DiffTemp was introduced, is, >1°C rise from individual normal temperature accompanied by malaise, as more accurate def...

The effect of proadrenomedullin NH2-terminal 20 peptide (PAMP) on the voltage-gated Ca2+ channel current was investigated using the perforated whole-cell clamp technique on NGF-treated PC12 cells. PAMP inhibited the Ba2+ current through N-type Ca2+ channels in a concentration dependent manner. Injection of GDPbetaS into the cell abolished the inhibition while injection of GTPgammaS into the cel...

The availability of an easily measurable specific marker for diagnosis of a disease is an important but not always reachable objective. Emergency area is an area where decisions must be taken as quick as possible, and sometimes it is not clear if the patient is well enough to be treated as an outpatient or must be hospitalized. During last few years many new biomarkers and techniques for their ...

In this issue of the European Respiratory Journal, ALBRICH et al. [1] report on a randomised trial. Their hypothesis is that triage decisions in patients with respiratory infections, guided by adding measurements of the calcitonin-superfamily gene derived peptide, mid-regional proadrenomedullin, are more effective than if guided according to clinical assessment alone. Length of hospital stay is...

Adrenomedullin (AM) and proadrenomedullin N-terminal 20 peptide (PAMP) are two recently discovered hypotensive peptides translated from the same message transcript (preproAM mRNA). In this article we report the presence of AM, PAMP, and their mRNA in human and rat prostate and of AM receptor mRNA in rat prostate. PreproAM mRNA was found in the epithelium of normal human and rat prostate glands ...

Proadrenomedullin N-terminal 20 peptide (PAMP-[1-20]; ARLDVASEFRKKWNKWALSR-amide) is a potent hypotensive and catecholamine release-inhibitory peptide released from chromaffin cells. We studied the mechanism of PAMP action and how its function is linked to structure. We tested human PAMP-[1-20] on catecholamine secretion in PC12 pheochromocytoma cells and found it to be a potent, dose-dependent...

There is increasing evidence for the important role played by regulatory peptides in the physiology of the normal and neoplastic prostate. Adrenomedullin (AM) and pro-adrenomedullin N-terminal 20 peptide (PAMP) are recently discovered regulatory peptides widely expressed in the normal prostate and in prostate carcinoma. AM is produced in secretory, stroma, and endothelial cells and in neurons o...