Editorial [ Neuropeptide Y Receptors as Targets in Drug Discovery Guest Editor: Ambikaipakan Balasubramaniam ]

摘要

My daughter was borne in 1980, surely a good omen! At about the same time, I joined the University of Cincinnati as a fellow, and was looking for a new project in the GI hormone field and, coincidentally Tatemoto, the Man with Gold Fingers, added neuropeptide Y (NPY) and peptide YY (PYY) to his long list of polypeptide hormone discoveries. Since then, I have been working on NPY family of hormones and NPY peptides which, in turn, have served me well to date. The latter may also be true for most of my colleagues all over the world, who are privileged to meet every couple of years at the International Meetings on NPY. To be honest, I do not know much of anything else beyond NPY, Cincinnati, and my family!