4 compounds
Neurobiology
Mood, memory and sleep-architecture research
DSIP
Studied in sleep-architecture and circadian-rhythm models.
Selank
Studied in animal anxiety models and in BDNF, a nerve growth factor.
Semax
Studied in nerve-growth-factor expression and in animal models of memory and attention.
VIP
Studied in the brain's master clock and in lung and immune models.
Neurobiology research
All articlesWhat the published literature on these compounds actually examined — the model, the endpoint, and the result.
Neurobiology
Neuropeptides: ACTH fragments, a sleep factor, and VIP
Three research lines from very different places: Soviet-era clinical pharmacology, a 1977 discovery that was never settled, and a well-mapped hormone.
Neurobiology
VIP, PACAP, and three receptors that do not divide neatly
Two neuropeptides found nineteen years apart turned out to share most of a receptor family. Which receptor a study engaged is often the first thing to ask of it.