Ascaris suum neuropeptides

Bowman, J.W., Winterrowd, C.A., Friedman, A.R., Thompson, D.P., Klein, R.D., Davis, J.P., Maule, A.G. and Geary, T.G. (1995) Nitric oxide mediates the inhibitory effects of SDPNFLRFamide, a nematode FMRFamide-like neuropeptide, in Ascaris suum. Journal of Neurophysiology 74, 1880-1888. 

Brownlee, D.J.A., Fairweather, I. and Johnston, C.F. (1993a) Immunocytochemical demonstration of neuropeptides in the peripheral nervous system of the round-worm Ascaris suum (Nematoda, Ascaroidea). Parasitology Research 79, 302-308. 

Brownlee, D.J.A., Holden-Dye, L., Fairweather, I. and Walker, R.J. (1995) The action of serotonin and the nematode neuropeptide KSAYMRFam ide on the pharyngeal muscle of the parasitic nematode, Ascaris suum. Parasitology 111, 379-384. 

Cowden, C. and Stretton, A.O.W. (1995) Eight novel FMRFamide-like neuropeptides isolated from the nematode Ascaris suum. Peptides 16, 491-500. 

Davenport, T.R.B., Lee, D.L. and Isaac, R.E. (1988) Immunocytochemical demonstration of a neuropeptide in Ascaris suum (Nematoda) using an anti-serum to FMRFamide. Parasitology 97, 81-88. 

Edison, A.S., Messinger, L.A. and Stretton, AO.W. (1997) A gene encoding multiple transcripts of a new class of FMRFamide-like neuropeptides in the nematode, Ascaris suum. Peptides 18, 929-935. 

Smart, D.S., Shaw, C., Johnston, C.F., Halton, D.W., Fairweather, I. and Buchanan, K.D. (1992a) Chromatographic and immunological characterisation of immunoreactivity towards pancreatic polypeptide and neuropeptide Y in the nematode Ascaris suum. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 102C, 477—481. 

Arthur S. Edison obtained a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Utah, where he studied monoterpenes isolated from southern Utah sagebrush by NMR. He completed his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he developed and applied NMR methods for peptide and protein structural studies under the supervision of John Markley and Frank Weinhold. In 1993, Dr. Edison joined the laboratory of Anthony O. W. Stretton at the University of Wisconsin as a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow where he investigated the role of neuropeptides in the nervous system of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum. He joined the faculty at the University of Florida and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in 1996 and is currently the Director of Chemistry Biology at the NHMFL. Dr. Edison s current research is in technology development for high-sensitivity NMR and natural product discovery in nematodes and other invertebrates. Dr. Edison is the recipient of the 1997 American Heart Association Robert J. Boucek Award, a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation in 1999, and, with his postdoctoral scientist Aaron Dossey, the Beal award for the best publication of the year in the Journal of Natural Products in 2007. 

Bowman, J. W., Geary, T. G. and Thompson, D. P. (1991) Electrophysiological characterization of the effects of nematode FMRFamide-like neuropeptides on Ascaris suum muscles. Abstr. Neurotox 91, 129. 

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