Question

How is Neuropeptide Y (NPY) synthesized/produced and How is released?

Answer 1

The neuropeptide Y us synthesized in the body by the pancreatic cells of our body and is processed from large as well as inactive precursor proteins known as prepropeptides, which are cleaved into several active peptides. Prepropeptides will mostly produce multiple copies of the similar peptide or different peptides.The amount of repeats of the peptide sequence will usually change throughout the evolution and served as a hotbed for genetic variation.

Neuropeptide Y. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is released or secreted by pancreatic cells in response to the specific impulses from our neurons in our central and peripheral nervous systems (PNS) It inhibits specifically the glucose-stimulated insulin secretion, and is usually present in the myenteric as well as the submucosal nervous plexuses in the digestive tract of our human body