Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide

"Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

MeSH information

Definition | Details | More General Concepts | Related Concepts | More Specific Concepts

A highly basic, 28 amino acid neuropeptide released from intestinal mucosa. It has a wide range of biological actions affecting the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and respiratory systems and is neuroprotective. It binds special receptors (RECEPTORS, VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE).

Descriptor ID	D014660
MeSH Number(s)	D06.472.317.950 D06.472.699.952 D12.644.400.875 D12.644.548.952 D12.776.631.650.875
Concept/Terms	Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Intestinal Peptide, Vasoactive Peptide, Vasoactive Intestinal Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide Intestinal Polypeptide, Vasoactive Polypeptide, Vasoactive Intestinal VIP (Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide) Vasointestinal Peptide Peptide, Vasointestinal

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide".

Chemicals and Drugs [D]
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists [D06]
Hormones [D06.472]
Gastrointestinal Hormones [D06.472.317]
Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide [D06.472.317.950]
Peptide Hormones [D06.472.699]
Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide [D06.472.699.952]
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins [D12]
Peptides [D12.644]
Neuropeptides [D12.644.400]
Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide [D12.644.400.875]
Peptide Hormones [D12.644.548]
Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide [D12.644.548.952]
Proteins [D12.776]
Nerve Tissue Proteins [D12.776.631]
Neuropeptides [D12.776.631.650]
Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide [D12.776.631.650.875]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide".

publications

Timeline | Most Recent

This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide" by people in this website by year, and whether "Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 11 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2003

To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.

Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2001	0	1	1
2003	0	2	2
2007	1	0	1
2009	0	1	1
2011	0	1	1
2012	1	0	1
2016	0	1	1
2018	1	0	1
2024	0	1	1
2026	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide" by people in Profiles.

Zhou H, Moriyasu D, Hsiao SW, Yamaguchi Y, Azuma M, Koshimizu TA, Itoi K, Sakimura K, Schwartz WJ, Okamura H, Hasegawa E, Doi M. Heterogeneity between VIP and GRP neurons underlies AVP receptor signaling in the mouse suprachiasmatic nucleus. Commun Biol. 2026 Feb 12; 9(1).

View in: PubMed
Ono D, Weaver DR, Hastings MH, Honma KI, Honma S, Silver R. The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus at 50: Looking Back, Then Looking Forward. J Biol Rhythms. 2024 04; 39(2):135-165.

View in: PubMed
Manoogian ENC, Kumar A, Obed D, Bergan J, Bittman EL. Suprachiasmatic function in a circadian period mutant: Duper alters light-induced activation of vasoactive intestinal peptide cells and PERIOD1 immunostaining. Eur J Neurosci. 2018 12; 48(11):3319-3334.

View in: PubMed
Kingsbury NJ, Taylor SR, Henson MA. Inhibitory and excitatory networks balance cell coupling in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: A modeling approach. J Theor Biol. 2016 May 21; 397:135-44.

View in: PubMed
Reichstetter S, Castillo GM, Rubinstein I, Nishimoto-Ashfield A, Lai M, Jones CC, Banerjee AA, Banjeree A, Lyubimov A, Bloedow DC, Bogdanov A, Bolotin EM. Protected graft copolymer excipient leads to a higher acute maximum tolerated dose and extends residence time of vasoactive intestinal Peptide significantly better than sterically stabilized micelles. Pharm Res. 2013 Mar; 30(3):670-82.

View in: PubMed
Vasalou C, Herzog ED, Henson MA. Multicellular model for intercellular synchronization in circadian neural networks. Biophys J. 2011 Jul 06; 101(1):12-20.

View in: PubMed
Vasalou C, Herzog ED, Henson MA. Small-world network models of intercellular coupling predict enhanced synchronization in the suprachiasmatic nucleus. J Biol Rhythms. 2009 Jun; 24(3):243-54.

View in: PubMed
Handa RJ, Zoeller RT, McGivern RF. Changes in vasoactive intestinal peptide and arginine vasopressin expression in the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the rat brain following footshock stress. Neurosci Lett. 2007 Sep 25; 425(2):99-104.

View in: PubMed
Pinhasov A, Mandel S, Torchinsky A, Giladi E, Pittel Z, Goldsweig AM, Servoss SJ, Brenneman DE, Gozes I. Activity-dependent neuroprotective protein: a novel gene essential for brain formation. Brain Res Dev Brain Res. 2003 Aug 12; 144(1):83-90.

View in: PubMed
Olcese J, Domagalski R, Bednorz A, Weaver DR, Urbanski HF, Reuss S, Middendorff R. Expression and regulation of mPer1 in immortalized GnRH neurons. Neuroreport. 2003 Mar 24; 14(4):613-8.

View in: PubMed

People

Explore

Similar Concepts

Top Journals