| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Antioxidative peptides from food proteins: A review | Peptides | 2010 | 1,252 |
| 2 | Leptin enters the brain by a saturable system independent of insulin | Peptides | 1996 | 1,131 |
| 3 | Use of cryoprotectant to maintain long-term peptide immunoreactivity and tissue morphology | Peptides | 1986 | 857 |
| 4 | Neuropeptide Y chronically injected into the hypothalamus: A powerful neurochemical inducer of hyperphagia and obesity | Peptides | 1986 | 825 |
| 5 | The relationship between peptide structure and antibacterial activity | Peptides | 2003 | 792 |
| 6 | Secretin receptor activity in rat gastric glands. Binding studies, cAMP generation and pharmacology | Peptides | 1986 | 738 |
| 7 | Immunohistochemical mapping of galanin-like neurons in the rat central nervous system | Peptides | 1985 | 666 |
| 8 | Biological actions of cholecystokinin | Peptides | 1994 | 633 |
| 9 | The opiomelanotropinergic neuronal and endocrine systems | Peptides | 1982 | 547 |
| 10 | Neuropeptide Y: A potent inducer of consummatory behavior in rats | Peptides | 1984 | 535 |
| 11 | Food deprivation and ingestion induce reciprocal changes in neuropeptide Y concentrations in the paraventricular nucleus | Peptides | 1988 | 511 |
| 12 | Competitive antagonists of bradykinin | Peptides | 1985 | 477 |
| 13 | Hydrolysis of substance P and neurotensin by converting enzyme and neutral endopeptidase | Peptides | 1984 | 436 |
| 14 | A short history, principles, and types of ELISA, and our laboratory experience with peptide/protein analyses using ELISA | Peptides | 2015 | 421 |
| 15 | Calcitonin gene-related peptide: Detailed immunohistochemical distribution in the central nervous system | Peptides | 1985 | 417 |
| 16 | Oxytocin, vasopressin, and social recognition in mammals | Peptides | 2004 | 412 |
| 17 | Functional significance of bioactive peptides derived from soybean | Peptides | 2014 | 411 |
| 18 | Paraventricular nucleus injections of peptide YY and neuropeptide Y preferentially enhance carbohydrate ingestion | Peptides | 1985 | 374 |
| 19 | Overview on the recent study of antimicrobial peptides: Origins, functions, relative mechanisms and application | Peptides | 2012 | 373 |
| 20 | Bioactive cyclic dipeptides | Peptides | 1995 | 354 |
| 21 | Ghrelin induces feeding in the mesolimbic reward pathway between the ventral tegmental area and the nucleus accumbens | Peptides | 2005 | 354 |
| 22 | Calcitonin gene-related peptide coexists with substance P in capsaicin sensitive neurons and sensory ganglia of the rat | Peptides | 1985 | 349 |
| 23 | From “carpet” mechanism to de-novo designed diastereomeric cell-selective antimicrobial peptides | Peptides | 2001 | 347 |
| 24 | Substance P- and CGRP-immunoreactive nerves in bone | Peptides | 1988 | 344 |
| 25 | Circulating levels of irisin in patients with anorexia nervosa and different stages of obesity – Correlation with body mass index | Peptides | 2013 | 341 |
| 26 | Growth regulatory properties of endothelins | Peptides | 1993 | 338 |
| 27 | Elevated maternal cortisol early in pregnancy predicts third trimester levels of placental corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH): Priming the placental clock | Peptides | 2006 | 331 |
| 28 | Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) in capsaicin-sensitive substance P-immunoreactive sensory neurons in animals and man: Distribution and release by capsaicin | Peptides | 1987 | 322 |
| 29 | A walk-through of the yeast mating pheromone response pathway | Peptides | 2005 | 319 |
| 30 | Recent developments in liposomes, microparticles and nanoparticles for protein and peptide drug delivery | Peptides | 2010 | 318 |
| 31 | Peptide signaling in Staphylococcus aureus and other Gram-positive bacteria | Peptides | 2004 | 316 |
| 32 | Atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) binding sites in brain and related structures | Peptides | 1984 | 313 |
| 33 | Peptides and the origin of life1 | Peptides | 1999 | 309 |
| 34 | Autoradiographic distribution of 125I-galanin binding sites in the rat central nervous system | Peptides | 1986 | 308 |
| 35 | Neuropeptides and their precursors in the fruitfly, Drosophila melanogaster☆ | Peptides | 2001 | 306 |
| 36 | Dynorphin immunocytochemistry in the rat central nervous system | Peptides | 1982 | 305 |
| 37 | A comparison of the anatomical distribution of substance P and substance P receptors in the rat central nervous system | Peptides | 1984 | 305 |
| 38 | Impaired transport of leptin across the blood-brain barrier in obesity☆ | Peptides | 1999 | 304 |
| 39 | Localization of the CB1 cannabinoid receptor in the rat brain. An immunohistochemical study☆ | Peptides | 2000 | 302 |
| 40 | Neuropeptide Y and peptide YY neuronal and endocrine systems | Peptides | 1985 | 293 |
| 41 | A review of fish-derived antioxidant and antimicrobial peptides: Their production, assessment, and applications | Peptides | 2012 | 287 |
| 42 | Effects of single and chronic intracerebroventricular administration of the orexins on feeding in the rat | Peptides | 1999 | 285 |
| 43 | Influence of oxytocin on feeding behavior in the rat | Peptides | 1989 | 284 |
| 44 | Differential Permeability of the Blood–Brain Barrier to Two Pancreatic Peptides: Insulin and Amylin | Peptides | 1998 | 283 |
| 45 | Evidence for neuropeptide Y mediation of eating produced by food deprivation and for a variant of the Y1 receptor mediating this peptide's effect | Peptides | 1992 | 282 |
| 46 | Transport of Insulin Across the Blood-Brain Barrier: Saturability at Euglycemic Doses of Insulin | Peptides | 1997 | 281 |
| 47 | Oxytocin during pregnancy and early postpartum: Individual patterns and maternal–fetal attachment | Peptides | 2007 | 280 |
| 48 | Ghrelin-producing cells exist as two types of cells, closed- and opened-type cells, in the rat gastrointestinal tract | Peptides | 2002 | 276 |
| 49 | Effects of leptin on memory processing | Peptides | 2006 | 276 |
| 50 | Anatomy and physiology of the neuroendocrine arcuate nucleus | Peptides | 1985 | 273 |
