This Research Topic will feature recent developments in the field of regulatory peptide physiology and peptide-based therapeutics. Authors of peer-reviewed abstracts, posters and oral presentations of the 22nd international symposium on regulatory peptides (RegPep2018) are welcome to submit Original Research work or a Review to this dedicated open access article collection that is hosted in the Neuroendocrine Science section (Frontiers in Endocrinology/Frontiers in Neuroscience).

Each manuscript will be rigorously peer-reviewed as for regular Frontiers papers and only papers that meet the standards will appear in this Research Topic. The articles of this Research Topic will be assembled into an e-book that will be freely available to all researchers.

Submission to this Research Topic will be open from September 17th, 2018 onwards. This topic is reserved for participants at RegPep2018. To submit from outside the RegPep2018 delegation, please contact the Topic Editors. If you have any questions, please contact us at endocrinology@frontiersin.org.

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