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- noun biochemistry A particular
inhibitory neuropeptide
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Examples
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His work has focused on a different messenger, a chemical known as galanin.
Experts targeting obesity raise hope of drugs to stop us feeling hungry 2011
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Intriguingly, Mackenzie has found that Europeans are more likely to carry strong versions of the galanin switch than Asian populations, so Europeans will have, on average, a greater urge to eat fatty foods and to drink alcohol.
Experts targeting obesity raise hope of drugs to stop us feeling hungry 2011
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Alternatively a person might have the strong version which triggers a high output of galanin and stimulates a strong urge to eat fatty foods.
Experts targeting obesity raise hope of drugs to stop us feeling hungry 2011
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We have found that there are two versions of this galanin switch.
Experts targeting obesity raise hope of drugs to stop us feeling hungry 2011
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Scientists at the university's Kosterlitz Centre said the switch controls the galanin gene.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Thus, changing levels of galanin in the amygdala will have an effect on an individual's emotional state.
BBC News - Home 2011
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They found a genetic "switch" - a piece of DNA which turns genes on or off within cells - which controls the galanin gene.
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At the University of Georgia, neuroscience professor Philip Holmes and his colleagues have shown that over the course of several weeks, exercise can switch on certain genes that increase the brain's level of galanin, a peptide neurotransmitter that appears to tone down the body's stress response by regulating another brain chemical, norepinephrine.
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Research into the use of galanin for multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease has also had positive initial results.
Media Newswire 2010
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Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Bristol, to develop a new analgesic drug based on the protein galanin.
Media Newswire 2010
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