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Parent topics
- Brain [r]: The core unit of a central nervous system. [e]
- Peptide [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neuron [r]: An excitable cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses. [e]
Subtopics
- Dynorphin [r]: A peptide produced by neurons that is a kappa opioid receptor agonist having opiate-like activity. [e]
- Neuropeptide Y [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Hunger [r]: Localized subjective sensation, caused by emptiness and a resulting hypermotility of the stomach. [e]
- Magnocellular neurosecretory cell [r]: Large neuroendocrine neuron in the supraoptic nucleus and paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus that projects to the posterior pituitary gland. [e]
- Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. [e]
- Peptide hormone [r]: A class of chemical messengers, secreted into the blood from endocrine cells, that bind to specific receptors expressed on the plasma membrane of target cells. [e]
- Thyroid stimulating hormone [r]: Hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland, which stimulates production of thyroid hormone from the thyroid gland. [e]
- Glia [r]: A group of cell types in the central nervous system that provide support to nerve cells. [e]
