Diversity and abundance: the basic properties of neuropeptide action in molluscs

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Event Abstract Back to Event Diversity and abundance: the basic properties of neuropeptide action in molluscs Tibor Kiss1* 1 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Experimental Zoology, Hungary Neuropeptides, the most diverse signaling molecules, are responsible for regulating a variety of cellular and behavioral processes in all vertebrate and invertebrate animals. Peptide signals play a role in information processing that is fundamentally different from that of conventional neurotransmitters. Neuropeptides may act as neurotransmitters or neuromodulators and released at the synaptic or non-synaptic sites. Others may be neurohormones controlling developmental processes, specific behaviors and be involved in the mechanisms of learning and memory storage. Co-transmission within peptide families, across peptide families, and between peptide and non-peptide signaling molecules, is a common incidence, which ensures the great versatility of their action. How these tasks are fulfilled when multiple neuropeptides are released becomes an important issue of the recent peptide research. Although our knowledge concerning the physiological and behavioral roles most of the neuropeptides isolated from mollusks is incomplete, here we attempt to provide some general principles in answer to the questions delineated above. Keywords: comparative endocrinology Conference: 25th Conference of the European Comparative Endocrinologists, Pécs, Hungary, 31 Aug - 4 Sep, 2010. Presentation Type: Conference Presentation Topic: Comparative endocrinology Citation: Kiss T (2010). Diversity and abundance: the basic properties of neuropeptide action in molluscs. Front. Endocrinol. Conference Abstract: 25th Conference of the European Comparative Endocrinologists. doi: 10.3389/conf.fendo.2010.01.00024 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 26 Aug 2010; Published Online: 29 Aug 2010. * Correspondence: Dr. Tibor Kiss, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Experimental Zoology, Tihany, Hungary, kisst@tres.blki.hu Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers Tibor Kiss Google Tibor Kiss Google Scholar Tibor Kiss PubMed Tibor Kiss Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.