#neuropeptide

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Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

Deepak Chopra

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How the Mind Can Heal Your Body

Harness your mind’s ability to heal your own self. Mind can cure the physical diseases of the body by harboring harmonious and healthy divine thoughts, because all physical diseases have their origin in mental ill-health.

Lack of cheerfulness contributes to physical ill-health. If one is always cheerful and entertains good divine thoughts, one will not suffer from any disease and will have perfect health at all times.

At every moment the body is changing as it reshuffles and exchanges its atoms and molecules with the rest of the universe.

The fifty trillion cells in your body are in constant interaction with each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, guard you from infection and disease, and handle the countless other functions that keep you alive.

While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, countless research indicates that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.

To think is to practice brain chemistry. Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide.

Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and act as receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain processes the information, transforms it into chemicals, and informs whole body know if there’s trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

You can activate high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs by fostering healthy and cheerful thoughts.

It is in your power to continue well and young as long as you like.

By K. Nagori

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Tumori rari: focus sui tumori neuro-endocrini e interfaccia col sistema sanitario

Tumori rari: focus sui tumori neuro-endocrini e interfaccia col sistema sanitario

I tumori rari sono innanzitutto malattie rare. Tuttavia, a differenza del criterio utilizzato per definire le malattie rare (la prevalenza, ovvero il numero di casi nella popolazione), per identificare questo gruppo di neoplasie si è scelto a livello internazionale di ricorrere al criterio dell’incidenza (numero di nuovi casi in un intervallo di tempo). L’incidenza per i tumori rari non supera la…

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Kasseler Biologin erforscht die innere Uhr

Kasseler Biologin erforscht die innere Uhr

Foto von Prof. Dr. Monika Stengl (Foto: Sonja Rode)

Die Zeitumstellung steht kurz bevor und damit eine Art kollektiver Jetlag.Viele Menschen müssen ihre innere Zeit schnellstmöglich wieder mit der Armbanduhr synchronisieren – aber auch Haus- und Nutztiere geraten aus dem Takt. Eine Biologin der Uni Kassel erforscht mit ihrem Team am Beispiel der Madeira-Schabe und des Tabakschwärmers die…

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Anxiety and Insects

What can sea urchins tell us about our stress levels and its commonality with insects moulting? Well, the same protein which controls anxiety is the same family as the one that causes insects to shed their skin. “Neuropeptides are small proteins in the brains of all animals that bind to receptor proteins and cause activity in cells.” So when one scientist was curious in finding the link between humans and insect’s neuropeptides, they turned to sea urchins. The ancestor that was the last to make this connection probably existed several hundreds of millions of years ago. And this is interesting because it shows that the same molecule can change functions through evolution, and it opens our eyes to how our brains work.

://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150421205546.htm

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Animal and clinical studies of gene-environment interactions have helped elucidate the mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of several mental illnesses including anxiety, depression, and schizophrenia; and have led to the discovery of improved treatments. The study of neuropeptides and their receptors is a parallel frontier of neuropsychopharmacology research and has revealed the involvement of several peptide systems in mental illnesses and identified novel targets for their treatment. Relaxin-3 is a newly discovered neuropeptide that binds, and activates the G-protein coupled receptor, RXFP3. Existing anatomical and functional evidence suggests relaxin-3 is an arousal transmitter which is highly responsive to environmental stimuli, particularly neurogenic stressors, and in turn modulates behavioral responses to these stressors and alters key neural processes, including hippocampal theta rhythm and associated learning and memory. Here, we review published experimental data on relaxin-3/RXFP3 systems in rodents, and attempt to highlight aspects that are relevant and/or potentially translatable to the etiology and treatment of major depression and anxiety. Evidence pertinent to autism spectrum and metabolism/eating disorders, or related psychiatric conditions, is also discussed. We also nominate some key experimental studies required to better establish the therapeutic potential of this intriguing neuromodulatory signaling system, including an examination of the impact of RXFP3 agonists and antagonists on the overall activity of distinct or common neural substrates and circuitry that are identified as dysfunctional in these debilitating brain diseases.