Chromogranins from Cell Biology to Physiology and Biomedicine

52 vitreous. It has been demonstrated that processing of CGs is tissue- and cell-specific (Yoshida et al. 2009 ). The numerous c ...

53 regulatory peptides (VS-I), important for the pro−/anti-angiogenic balance in the eye. The alteration of the processing may b ...

54 These new AMPs are integrated in the concept that highlights the key role of the adrenal medulla in the immunity (Sternberg 2 ...

55 sequences (L42-L49; L57-L64). Surface interaction of rhodamine-labelled bCGA1- 40 was demonstrated using confocal microscopy ...

56 (Lugardon et al. 2001 ). The importance of the amphipathic sequence for antifungal activity was demonstrated by the loss of s ...

57 peptides were isolated by HPLC and analysed by sequencing and mass spectrome- try. These peptides were tested against Gram po ...

58 MIC.  The comparison was made with the antibiotic or peptide separately at the same doses. Minocycline has a MIC of 2 μg/ml a ...

59 7 Chromogranin A and VS-1 in Plasma of Critically ill Patients from Intensive Care Unit In critically ill patients admitted t ...

60 acutely stressed patients with a SIRS (n = 44) had significantly higher plasma con- centrations of CGA than controls (115 μg/ ...

61 The third piece of information available is that a single VS-I plasma concentra- tion evaluation on admission can affect the ...

62 8 New Biomaterials with Antimicrobial Chromogranin Derived Peptides Implantable medical devices are widely used in surgery no ...

63 themselves (Fig.  7 ). Polysaccharides adsorbed mass was determined by surface plasmon resonance, the buildup and the topogra ...

64 9 General Conclusion This review summarizes data concerning the processing of CGA and the biological roles of the antimicrobi ...

65 Brosig B, Langosch D (1998) The dimerization motif of the glycophorin A transmembrane seg- ment in membranes: importance of g ...

66 Helle KB (2010) Chromogranins A and B and secretogranin II as prohormones for regulatory pep- tides from the diffuse neuroend ...

67 O’Connor DT, Cervenka JH, Stone RA, Parmer RJ, Franco-Bourland RE, Madrazo I et  al (1993) Chromogranin A immunoreactivity in ...

68 Trzeciak S, Dellinger RP, Chansky ME, Arnold RC, Schorr C, Milcarek B et  al (2007) Serum lactate as a predictor of mortality ...

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017 69 T. Angelone et al. (eds.), Chromogranins: from Cell Biology to Physiology and Bio ...

70 1 Introduction Secretory granules from a wide variety of secretory cells, ranging from primitive unicellular organisms to hum ...

71 Table 1 Conserved amino acid sequences near the amino terminal regions of chromogranins A and B across species aThe numbers s ...