The cat caudate nucleus has been reported to possess a rich and fairly even distribution of nerve endings, containing both dopamine- and cholecystokinin-like peptides. In this study, the effect of cholecystokinin-octapeptide (CCK-8) on basal and electrically evoked tritium outflow from slices of cat caudate nucleus previously labeled with [3H]dopamine was examined. Evoked tritium outflow from s...

The antagonism between cholecystokinin (CCK) and methyl beta-carboline-3-carboxylate (beta-CCM) in the nervous system was studied by measuring the release of acetylcholine (ACh) from the longitudinal muscle-myenteric plexus preparation of guinea-pig. The ACh release was assessed by measuring [3H] output from the preparation preincubated with [3H] choline. Thirty mM of KCl caused a pronounced re...

Objectives Cholecystokinin (CCK) has been proposed as a mediator in stress. However, it is still not fully documented what are its effects. We aimed to evaluate the effects of systemic administration of CCK exactly before induction of stress on spatial memory and synaptic plasticity at CA1 in rats. Materials and Methods Male Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups: the control, the control-CCK...

Cholecystokinin (CCK) is a peptide originally discovered in the gastrointestinal tract but is also found in high density in the mammalian brain. The C‐terminal sulfated octapeptide fragment of CCK8 constitutes one of the major neuropeptides in the brain. CCK8, interacting with nanomolar affinities with two different receptors designated CCK1 and CCK2, has been shown to be involved in numerous p...

Cholecystokinin (CCK) and dopamine (DA) coexist in a subpopulation of neurons of the ventral tegmental area projecting to the nucleus accumbens. The present experiments were undertaken to determine the effect of acute and long-term administration of haloperidol on the responsiveness of accumbens neurons to microiontophoretic applications of the sulfated cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8S), kai...

Inflammatory process is involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. In this article, we show that cholecystokinin (CCK) is expressed in the kidney and exerts renoprotective effects through its anti-inflammatory actions. DNA microarray showed that CCK was upregulated in the kidney of diabetic wild-type (WT) mice but not in diabetic intracellular adhesion molecule-1 knockout mice. We in...

In the present study the effects of both CCK receptor agonists and antagonists on antinociception induced by morphine in the tail-flick test have been evaluated. M orphine induced dose-dependent antinociception in mice. The response of morphine was potentiated by sulfated cholecystokinin-8 (CCK-8S) but not by unsulfated cholecystokinin-8 (CCK-8U). The CCK receptor antagonists MK-329 and L-...

Reports of cholecystokinin (CCK) binding and expression of CCK receptors in neonatal rodent spinal cord suggest that CCK may influence neuronal excitability. In patch-clamp recordings from 19/21 ventral horn motoneurons in neonatal (PN 5-12 days) rat spinal cord slices, we noted a slowly rising and prolonged membrane depolarization induced by bath applied sulfated CCK octapeptide (CCK-8s; 1 μM)...

Evolutionary history suggests that the marsupials entered South America from North America about 75 million years ago and subsequently dispersed into Australia before the separation between South America and Antarctica-Australia. A question of interest is whether marsupial peptides resemble the corresponding peptides of Old or New World mammals. Previous studies had shown that "little" gastrin ...

An in vitro bioassay for cholecystokinin which is superior to the previously described in vivo assays has been properly validated mathematically. The specificity of the assay has been assessed by measuring the potency of other polypeptides which share the same C-terminal pentapeptide sequence with cholecystokinin (gastrin, caerulin, octapeptide of cholecystokinin, and pentagastrin). The assay i...