Background:

Eledoisin Related Peptide is a Substance P analog that excites neurons and triggers behavioral responses. Eledoisin Related Peptide is also a tachykinin receptor ligand.

Eledoisin Related Peptide shares with Substance P (SP) a common N-terminal amino acid sequence and has been shown by to have SP-like activity in the periphery (gut and salivary glands) and the CNS. Eledoisin-related peptide seems to be roughly equipotent with Substance P at identical ejection currents on the single-cell activity of neurons in this nucleus[2]. Both glutamate and substance P (and its analogue, eledoisin-related peptide) have excitatory effects on the activity of respiratory neurons and reflex interneurons[3].

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