Cardiovascular function is modulated by neuronal transmitters, circulating hormones, and factors that are released locally from tissues. Urotensin II (UII) is an 11 amino acid peptide that stimulates its' obligatory G protein coupled urotensin II receptors (UT) to modulate cardiovascular function in humans and in other animal species, and has been implicated in both vasculoprotective and vascul...

Patients and Methods: Forty patients were selected from Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases Department, Benha University Hospital, Egypt. Group (1) 20 patients with ascites (9 males and 11 females), their ages ranged from 35-65years with mean 50.95 ± 9.84. Group (2) 20 patients without ascites as a control group (8 males and 12 females) their ages ranged from 35-63 years with m...

Osteoartrit (OA), kemik, kıkırdak ve sinoviyal dokuda katabolik değişikliklere neden olan yaygın bir eklem hastalığıdır. OA’nın güncel tedavisi, hastalığı tamamen iyileştirmek için yeterli değildir. Eklem kondrositlerinin yanı sıra, kemik hücrelerindeki OA ile ilişkili mekanizmaların anlaşılması bu hastalığın önlenmesi tedavisine katkı sağlayacaktır. Urotensin II (UTS2), nörohormon benzeri akti...

Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) and related peptides (urocortins, sauvagine, urotensin) play a central role in the co-ordination of autonomic, behavioural, cardiovascular, immune and endocrine responses to stressful stimuli. Their actions are mediated through activation of two types of G-protein-coupled receptors encoded by separate genes. In this review we focus on the diverse structural...

In the goby, Gillichthys mirabilis, urotensin II (a bioactive neuropeptide present in the urophysis of teleost fish) has the dodecapeptide sequence, H2N-AGTADC-FWKYCV-OH, which is homologous with mammalian somatostatin at positions 1, 2 and 7-9. The Merrifield solid phase synthesis of Gillichthys urotensin II (UII) was accomplished by stepwise assembly from the carboxy terminus using N-alpha-te...

The peptide human urotensin-II (hUT-II) and its receptor have recently been cloned. The vascular function of this peptide in humans, however, has yet to be determined. Vasoconstrictor and vasodilator responses to hUT-II were investigated in human small muscular pulmonary arteries [approximately 70 microm internal diameter (ID)] and human abdominal resistance arteries (approximately 200 microm I...

Urotensin II (UII), originally identified from fish urophysis, is a potent vasoactive peptide and an endogenous ligand for an orphan G protein-coupled receptor GPR14, now named as urotensin II receptor (UT-R). In this study, we investigated the mRNA and protein expressions of UII and its receptor (UT-R) in human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells, and the effect of exogenous UII on the proliferatio...

OBJECTIVE Urotensin II (UII) is a potent vasoactive peptide that binds to the urotensin receptor-coupled receptor-14 (known as UT) and exerts a wide range of actions in humans and experimental animals. We tested the hypothesis that UII gene deletion or UT blockade ameliorate experimental atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS We observed a significant reduction in weight gain, visceral fat, blo...

The urotensin-II receptor (UTR) is a class A GPCR that predominantly binds to the pleiotropic cyclic peptide urotensin-II (U-II). U-II is constrained by a disulfide bridge that induces a β-turn structure and binds pseudo-irreversibly to UTR and is believed to result in a structural rearrangement of the receptor. However, it is not well understood how U-II binds pseudo-irreversibly and the natur...