DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Measurements of the affinity, potency and efficacy of ligands to G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are fundamental to pharmacology and drug discovery. Cellular functional assays measuring the production of GPCR second
messengers such as cAMP and inositol… More
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Analogs of the neuropeptide somatostatin are important therapeutics for the treatment of hormone secreting tumors with annual sales in excess of 1.3B. However, currently available peptide depots are only effective in approximately half the patients with growth… More
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): During the past decade, the discovery of kisspeptin peptides and their cognate receptor KISS1R (aka GPR54) has expanded our mechanistic understanding of the hypthothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis. The kisspeptin system has been shown to be an integrator of… More