Met-enkephalin inhibits in vitro dopamine-induced LHRH release from mediobasal hypothalamus of male rats

Identification of two related pentapeptides from the brain with potent opiate agonist activity

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Medicine, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology +13

Opiates and endogenous opioid peptides

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Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +12

The distribution of enkephalin-immunoreactive cell bodies in the rat central nervous system

Tomas Hökfelt, Robert Elde, Lars Terenius et al. · Neuroscience Letters · 1977 · 694 citations

Life Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +7

Opioid peptide enkephalin: immunohistochemical mapping in rat central nervous system.

Rabi Simantov, M. J. Kuhar, G R Uhl et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1977 · 622 citations · Full text

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16

Effects of naloxone, morphine and methionine enkephalin on serum prolactin, luteinizing hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, thyroid stimulating hormone and growth hormone

J.F. Bruni, D. Van Vugt, Sarah Marshall et al. · Life Sciences · 1977 · 579 citations

Medicine, Endocrinology, Pharmacology +10