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Substance P is a neuropeptide that plays a key role in pain perception, inflammation, and neurogenic processes.
It is a member of the tachykinin family and is primarily found in the central and peripheral nervous systems.
Substance P acts as a neurotransmitter and neuromodulator, mediating a wide range of physiological functions, including vasodilation, smooth muscle contraction, and stimulation of the release of other neurotransmitters.
It is also implicated in the pathogenesis of various diseases, such as migraine, asthma, and chronic pain conditions.
Substance P research is crucial for understanding its mechanims of action and developing targeted theraputic interventions.
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Publication 2014
Anabolism Arteries Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Catecholamines Cells Denervation Dissection Dopa Dopa Decarboxylase Dopamine Elastica Elastic Fibers Enzymes Ganglia Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein High Blood Pressures Kidney Nerve Fibers Nervousness Neurofilament Proteins Neuroglia Neurons Neurotransmitters Norepinephrine S100 Proteins Substance P Tissues trichrome stain Tyrosine Tyrosine 3-Monooxygenase
Coronary arterioles (80- to 180-μm internal diameters) were dissected from the right atria appendage pre- and post-CP Rep. Microvessel studies were performed by in vitro organ bath video-microscopy as described previously.3 (link),6 (link) After a 60-minute stabilization period in the organ chamber, the microvessels were preconstricted with thromboxane A2 analog U46619×30% to 40% of the baseline diameter. After achievement of this constricted steady state, dose-dependent relaxation was measured in response to (extraluminal) application of the following vasodilators: the activator of intermediate and small conductance KCa channels (IKCa/SKCa), NS309, the activator of large conductance KCa channels (BKCa), NS1619 (both from 10-9 to 10-5 M), sodium nitroprusside (SNP), adenosine 5′-diphosphate (both from 10-9 to 10-4 M), and substance P (10-12 to 10-7 M). After exposure to substance P, the vessel was discarded to avoid tachyphylaxis. One or 3 interventions were performed on each vessel. The order of drug administration was random. Six vessels harvested before CP Rep were pretreated with a mixture of the IKCa blocker, TRAM34 (10-7 M), and the SKCa blocker, apamin (10-6 M), before perfusion with NS309. Six additional vessels were pretreated with the BKCa blocker, iberiotoxin (10-7 M) before perfusion with NS1619. In some cases, endothelial denudation was carried out by advancing a human hair into the lumen and gently abrading the luminal surface.
Publication 2008
Adenosine Diphosphate Apamin Arterioles Atrium, Right Bath Blood Vessel Endothelium Hair Heart Homo sapiens iberiotoxin Microscopy, Video Microvessels Nitroprusside, Sodium NS 1619 Perfusion Phenobarbital Substance P Tachyphylaxis Thromboxane A2 U-44619 Vasodilator Agents
hM4Di receptor expression in cell bodies and processes was visualized with immunohistochemistry for HA, GFP, or mCherry tags (described below). Containment of transduction sites within RVP or CVP, or VTA or SN dopamine cells, was confirmed by co-staining for substance P (SP; defining borders of VP), or TH (defining VTA and SN), and a brain atlas50 . A synapsin promoter virus was employed in VP, so some expression was observed outside the borders of RVP or CVP in most animals. Animals with more than 30% of DREADD expression observed outside RVP or CVP were excluded from analyses (n=7). For animals with RVP virus injections, no more than 20% of DREADD-expressing tissue encroached into CVP (i.e., caudal of bregma), or vice versa. Animals injected with the Syn-GFP control virus in VP had comparable GFP expression patterns to hM4Di animals. For TH::Cre rats, hM4Di expression was robust in either VTA or SN, and was restricted almost exclusively to TH+ cell bodies and processes [% mCherry+ neurons coexpressing TH: m±SEM=97.5±0.7%; Fig. 6b–c, Supplemental Fig. 6]. mCherry expression was not observed in the contralateral hemisphere, nor did expression extend substantially into the SN of VTA-injected animals, or into VTA of SN-injected animals (Fig. 6b–c).
Publication 2014
Animals Animal Viruses Brain Cell Body Cells Dopamine Immunohistochemistry Neurons Rattus norvegicus Substance P Synapsins Tissues Virus
Immunohistochemical analysis was performed on flexor digitorum tendons collected from normal controls (n=12), trained controls (n = 9), and rats that had performed either the HRHF task for 3 (n = 4), 6 (n=4) or 12 weeks (n=4), or the LRNF task for 3 (n=3), 6 (n=4) or 12 weeks (n = 3). Animals were euthanized, perfused transcardially with 4% paraformaldehyde in PO4 buffer, and forearm musculotendinous tissues were dissected as a mass off the forearm bones as shown in Figure 3K,L, and sectioned longitudinally as a soft tissue mass (en bloc) as described previously (19 (link), 23 (link)). Sections, on slides, were incubated in 3% H2O2 in methanol (4°C) for 30 min, washed, incubated in 4% dried milk in PBS (Blotto) for 20 min, and then overnight at rm temp with a Substance P antibody (# MAB1566, Chemicon, Temecula, CA; 1:500 dilution with 4% carnation milk in PBS). After washing, sections were incubated for 2 hrs at rm temp with goat anti-mouse peroxidase-conjugated (HRP) secondary antibody (Jackson ImmunoResearch, West Grove, PA) diluted 1:100 with PBS. HRP was visualized as a black immunoreactive stain using diaminobenzidene (DAB) with cobalt (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO). For IL-1β and periostin like factor (PLF; labels activated fibroblasts producing this matricellular protein), sections were immunolabeled and detected with HRP-DAB as previously described (21 (link),24 (link)). Eosin and/or nuclear red were used as counterstains. A series of adjacent sections were also stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) only. Sections were dehydrated and coverslipped with DPX mounting medium. For connective tissue growth factor (CTGF; a fibroblast growth factor that induces collagen production and an activated fibroblast marker), sections were immunolabeled and detected with Cy3 (red fluorescence), and coverslipped with 80% glycerol in PBS, as previously described (22 (link)). Negative control slides included omission of either the primary antibody or the secondary antibody.
Selected sections were double-labeled after Substance P immunolabeling with either anti-ED1 (detects a 90 kDa lysosomal membrane protein in monocytes/macrophages) or anti-PGP9.5 (a pan neuronal marker). After Substance P immunolabeling with secondary antibody conjugated to Cy2 (green tag; Jackson, diluted 1:100 in PBS for 2 hrs), tissue sections were washed, digested with 0.5% pepsin in 0.01 N HCl for 20 min at rm temp, and then incubated with goat serum (4%) in PBS for 30 min at rm temp. Sections were then incubated with either anti-ED1 (MAB1435, Chemicon, Temecula, CA, 1:250 dilution in 4% goat serum in PBS) or anti-PGP9.5 (ab8189, Abcam, Cambridge, MA, 1:50 dilution in 10% goat serum in PBS) overnight at rm temp. Sections were incubated with appropriate secondary antibodies conjugated to Cy3 (red tag; Jackson). Slides were coverslipped with 80% glycerol in PBS. Selected sections were also double-labeled with CTGF and collagen type I antibodies as described previously (22 (link)).
Publication 2009
Animals Antibodies Buffers Carnation Cobalt Collagen Collagen Type I Connective Tissue Growth Factor Eosin Fibroblast Growth Factor Fibroblasts Fluorescence Forearm Glycerin Goat Immunoglobulins Interleukin-1 beta Lysosome-Associated Membrane Glycoproteins Macrophage Methanol Milk, Cow's Monocytes Mus Neurons paraform Pepsin A Peroxidase Peroxide, Hydrogen POSTN protein, human Proteins Rattus Serum Stains Substance P Technique, Dilution Tendons Tissues UCHL1 protein, human Ulna
hM4Di receptor expression in cell bodies and processes was visualized with immunohistochemistry for HA, GFP, or mCherry tags (described below). Containment of transduction sites within RVP or CVP, or VTA or SN dopamine cells, was confirmed by co-staining for substance P (SP; defining borders of VP), or TH (defining VTA and SN), and a brain atlas50 . A synapsin promoter virus was employed in VP, so some expression was observed outside the borders of RVP or CVP in most animals. Animals with more than 30% of DREADD expression observed outside RVP or CVP were excluded from analyses (n=7). For animals with RVP virus injections, no more than 20% of DREADD-expressing tissue encroached into CVP (i.e., caudal of bregma), or vice versa. Animals injected with the Syn-GFP control virus in VP had comparable GFP expression patterns to hM4Di animals. For TH::Cre rats, hM4Di expression was robust in either VTA or SN, and was restricted almost exclusively to TH+ cell bodies and processes [% mCherry+ neurons coexpressing TH: m±SEM=97.5±0.7%; Fig. 6b–c, Supplemental Fig. 6]. mCherry expression was not observed in the contralateral hemisphere, nor did expression extend substantially into the SN of VTA-injected animals, or into VTA of SN-injected animals (Fig. 6b–c).
Publication 2014
Animals Animal Viruses Brain Cell Body Cells Dopamine Immunohistochemistry Neurons Rattus norvegicus Substance P Synapsins Tissues Virus

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The levels of interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-6, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, prostaglandin E2 (PGE2), and IL-10 in rat serum and substance P (SP), hyaluronic acid (HA), bradykinin (BK), and prostacyclin (PGI2) in rat skin tissues (corresponding to the L6 DRG) were examined by quantizing enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (ZhuoCai Biological Technology, China) based on the manufacturer's instructions. The absorbance of wells was measured with a microplate reader (SpectraMAX Plus384, USA) at 450 nm wavelength to calculate the sample concentration.
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PC and SC levels were analyzed using a SC immunoassay kit according to the specification of kits (Salimetrics LLC, State College, PA, USA). The value for intra- and inter-assay coefficient of variability (CV) of PC was 6.64% and 9.85%, respectively. The intra-assay and inter-assay CV values of SC were 8.84% and 9.13%, respectively. Plasma SP was analyzed using a substance P ELISA kit (Enzo Life Sciences, Farmingdale, NY, USA). The intra-assay CV was 8.42%, whereas the intra-assay CV was 10.6%. Plasma haptoglobin concentrations were analyzed using a bovine haptoglobin enzyme immunoassay kit (GenWay Biotech, San Diego, CA, USA). The intra- and inter-assay CV values were 1.46% and 8.67%, respectively. The analytical methods were verified in our previous study (Park et al [3 (link)]).
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Erich et al. cut consecutive sections from five different porcine tissues (kidney, spleen, pancreas, liver and muscle) and spotted four times 1 μl protease inhibitor mix onto each tissue section19 . For each organ, five tissue sections were spray-covered with substance P before incubation to allow its digestion in the areas without protease inhibitor mix (‘digested samples’) and the other six sections were spray-covered after incubation to prevent digestion (‘not digested samples’). Incubation times were set to 15, 30, 60, 120 and 360 min to measure the endogenous protease activity over time. Afterwards, imaging with a MALDI-TOF device in the m/z range 500 to 2500 at 200 μm spatial resolution was performed. The 55 GB imzML ‘time-curve-dataset’ was downloaded from PRIDE (PXD011104) and imported into Cardinal. Peak detection was performed on the mean spectrum with the MAD noise estimation and a signal to noise ratio of 2.5. Peaks were aligned to the mean spectrum and only m/z features with non-zero mean intensities were kept. The peak area was integrated in the total ion current normalized data at the m/z peak positions ± 100 ppm. Time and memory consumption for these calculations were recorded once while using a single core and once with two cores via the BiocParallel function. Next, the ion image of substance P (m/z 1347.7) was plotted on the preprocessed file with the following parameters: contrast enhancement via histogram and adaptive image smoothing. All tissue specimens were annotated for their condition (digest/no digest) and time points (15, 30, 45, 60, 120, 360 min) via their position in the x-y coordinate grid. The five different tissue types were manually annotated according to the annotation provided in the original manuscript. These spectra annotations were integrated with the MSI data and filtered for ‘digest’ and ‘no digest’ spleen spectra. Substance P (m/z 1347.7) was plotted in the ‘digest’ spleen tissues with contrast enhancement via suppression and Gaussian image smoothing. Single ion segmentation15 (link) of substance P in the digested spleen was performed to obtain the spectra with and without inhibitor mix. This was performed by applying spatially-aware Dirichlet Gaussian mixture model (DGMM) with a radius (r) of one, two clusters (k) and without annealing during parameter optimization. The obtained spatial clusters were plotted. For both clusters, substance P mean intensity was calculated for the digested (no inhibitor mix) and not digestion (inhibitor mix) spectra of both datasets at all digestion times. The obtained mean intensities were normalized to the mean intensity of substance P in the undigested spleen tissues at the same time points, log transformed and plotted as a time curve.
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Publication Preprint 2023
Acclimatization Digestion Histocompatibility Testing Ion Transport Kidney Liver Medical Devices Memory Muscle Tissue Pancreas Peptide Hydrolases Pigs Protease Inhibitors Radius SERPINA1 protein, human Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization Spleen Substance P Tissues
In accordance with our previous study [10 (link)], rat L1 to L3 DRGs were harvested to analyze the gene expression of substance P (SP) and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), because bilateral L1–L3 DRGs innervate the lower IVDs [14 (link)]. In brief, the TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen, Life Technologies Corporation, CA, USA) was used to extract the total RNA, and the cDNA was produced with reverse transcriptase kit (TaKaRa, Shiga, Japan). The next qRT-PCR was conducted using SYBR Premix Ex Taq Kit (TaKaRa, Shiga, Japan) in the ABI 7500 Sequencing Detection System (Applied Biosystems, CA, USA). In this process, the reaction condition was set as follows: 40 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 5 s and amplification at 60°C for 24 s. In this study, the primer sequences were designed and used: rat GAPDH: forward 5′-ATGACTCTACCCACGGCAAG-3′ and reverse 5′-TACTCAGCACCAGCATCACC-3′; rat SP: forward 5′-TGGTCAGATCTCTCACAAAGG-3′ and reverse 5′-TGCATTGCGCTTCTTTCATA-3′; rat CGRP: forward 5′-TCTAGTGTCACTGCCCAGAAGAGA-3′ and reverse 5′-GGCACAAAGTTGTCCTTCACCACA-3′; human GAPDH: forward 5′-CAGGAGGCATTGCTGATGAT-3′ and reverse 5′-GAAGGCTGGGGCTCATTT-3′; and human NGF: forward 5′-GCAAGCGGTCATCATCCCATCC-3′ and reverse 5′-TCTGTGGCGGTGGTCTTATCCC-3′.
All reactions had triplicate repeat and the housekeeping gene was GAPDH. To normalize the targeted gene expression, the 2-△△Ct method was used when compared with the gene expression of GAPDH.
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Publication 2023
Adjustment Disorders Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide DNA, Complementary GAPDH protein, human Gene Expression Genes, Housekeeping Homo sapiens Oligonucleotide Primers RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase Substance P trizol
The prostate and the bladder were harvested 14 days after saline or CAR injection, fixed in 10% formaldehyde buffer for 24–48 h, and then embedded in paraffin for H&E staining and immunohistochemistry.
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Substance P (SP) is a neuropeptide that plays a crucial role in pain perception, inflammation, and neurogenic processes.
It belongs to the tachykinin family and is primarily found in the central and peripheral nervous systems.
SP acts as both a neurotransmitter and neuromodulator, mediating a wide range of physiological functions, such as vasodilation, smooth muscle contraction, and the stimulation of other neurotransmitter release.
This versatile peptide is also implicated in the pathogenesis of various conditions, including migraine, asthma, and chronic pain disorders.
Alongside SP, related compounds like Bradykinin, a potent vasodilator, and ACTH clip 18–39, a synthetic peptide, have garnered significant research interest.
The use of materials such as FBS (Fetal Bovine Serum) and Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) are common in SP-related experiments, while TRIzol reagent is often employed for RNA extraction and purification.
Optimizing SP research is crucial for understanding its mechanisms of action and developing targeted therapeutic interventions.
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