...Egberto Gaspar de Moura; Magna Cottini F Cottini Programming is an epigenetic phenomena by which nutritional, hormonal, physical psychological and other stressful events acting in a critical period of life, such as gestation and lactation, modifies in a prolonged way certain physiological functions...

... of small peptides at a unicellular level, that could have some role in the selection of molecules for hormone formation, during evolution. © 1997 Plenum Publishing Corporation 1997 Tetrahymena evolution hormones peptides signal molecule imprinting Bioscience Reports, Vol. 17, No. 6, 1997...

..., of their involvements in pathology, and of possible pharmacological treatment or prevention of disease. KEY WORDS: Membrane; mitochondria; transport; chemiosmotics; ATPase; channels; synaptic junctions; neurotransmitters; hormones; P-glycoprotein; multi-drug resistance; antibiotics; ionophores; oxidative...

...G. Csaba; Zsuzsa Darvas Certain non-hormone oligopeptides have a greater imprinting effect on Tetrahymena than others. The imprinting potential is unrelated to the length of the peptide chain, but seems greatly dependent on the amino acid sequence. The direct growth-stimulant action developed...