What does VIP stand for?

Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide

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Gastrointestinal hormone concentrations, including motilin (MTL), gastrin (GAS), somatostatin (SS) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) were determined with commercially available radioimmunoassay (RIA) kits.

Regulative effects of essential oil from Atractylodes lancea on ...

4) The vasodilatation is mediated by the release of principally nitric oxide in older individuals whereas other substances such as prostcylcin (6,7) and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) (8) help mediate the response in younger individuals.

The influence of ageing and diabetes on skin and subcutaneous fat ...

Although many agents, including serotonin, adrenomedullin, vasoactive intestinal peptide and vascular endothelial growth factor have been implicated in the pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension, prostaglandin, thromboxane, nitric oxide and endothelin have received the most attention.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension: evaluation and management

There was diffuse positive reactivity for chromogranin and synaptophysin (Figure 2), while vasoactive intestinal peptide reactivity was focal.

Nasopharyngeal Gangliocytic Paraganglioma: A Case Report With ...

The resultant genital motor responses to sexual stimulation include pelvic vasocongestion and vaginal lubrication, mediated by vasoactive neurotransmitters such as vasoactive intestinal peptide, neuropeptide Y, substance P, calcitonin gene-related peptide, and helospectin and others (Hauser-Kronberger et al.

Female Sexual Function in Neurologic Disease

Pancreatic tumors that secrete too much glucagon or somatostatin can cause diabetes, and too much vasoactive intestinal peptide can cause watery diarrhea.

Familial Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1

Moreover, they showed that a hormone called vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)--which shares many of the same genetic sequences found in gp120 -- can prevent neuronal death when nerve cells are exposed to gp120, perhaps by blocking gp120 binding to nerve cells.

HIV: more tricks up its sleeve

4) Another explanation for normotension in pheochromocytoma is the fact that apart from catecholamine, these tumors secrete more than 10 other substances: calcitonin, somatostatin, neurotensin, adrenocorticotropin, [beta]-endorphin, lipotropin, metenkephalin, dopamine, neuropeptide Y and occasionally, vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP).

Epinephrine-secreting pheochromocytoma in a normotensive woman with ...