title: Methionine enkephalin-like immunoreactivity, substance P-like immunoreactivity and beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity post-mortem stability in rat pituitary.
abstract: Significant post-mortem changes in peptide concentration occur within the previously unstudied timeframe, i.e. within 1 h, for the proenkephalin A, proopiomelanoccortin, and tachykinin neuropeptidergic systems in the pituitary. These data differ from data obtained in other studies that concluded that peptides are stable for up to 72 h post-mortem. The post-mortem stability of the three neuropeptides, methionine enkephalin, substance P, and beta-endorphin, was studied in the rat pituitary to test the hypothesis that significant post-mortem concentration changes of those three neuropeptides occur in the immediate post-mortem time period.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Charles B. Stout Neuroscience Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38163.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Desiderio
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004744:Enkephalin, Methionine / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010902:Pituitary Gland / Q000737:chemistry*; D011180:Postmortem Changes; D011863:Radioimmunoassay; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013373:Substance P / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors; D001615:beta-Endorphin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D013373:Substance P; D004744:Enkephalin, Methionine; D001615:beta-Endorphin