| Protein Name | vasoactive intestinal peptide |
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| Organism | Rattus norvegicus |
| Gene ID | 117064 |
| Gene Symbol | Vip |
| UniProt | P01283 (VIP_RAT), B0BNF3 (B0BNF3_RAT), A0A090BZQ0 (A0A090BZQ0_RAT) |
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Total Number of functionally related compound(s) :
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Total Number of Articles : 1208 |
Description |
vasoactive intestinal peptide |
| Gene Summary |
Enables hormone activity. Involved in several processes, including negative regulation of smooth muscle cell proliferation; positive regulation of endothelial cell proliferation; and positive regulation of penile erection. Located in neuronal cell body. Used to study several diseases, including Parkinsonism; brain ischemia; periodontitis; pulmonary hypertension; and uveitis. Biomarker of visual epilepsy. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in pulmonary sarcoidosis. Orthologous to human VIP (vasoactive intestinal peptide). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022] |
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