In March last year we were delighted to announce the formalization of an association that had been growing for several years when the International Regulatory Peptide Society (IRPS) adopted Journal of Neuroendocrinology as its official journal. In cementing this relationship, we were looking forward to working with the officers of the IRPS around the biennial meetings of the Society as well as other initiatives to promote the Society and its aims, while at the same time strengthening our valued society-owned journal. In particular, we were looking forward to the planned 23^rd RegPep World Conference (RegPep2020), the next of the IRPS meetings. Unfortunately, as for many other events, the COVID-19 pandemic prevented any meeting in 2020, and the 23^rd RegPep conference is now planned as a hybrid face-to-face/virtual meeting in August this year (http://www.regpep.org/). Despite the disruption to the planned meeting schedule, the leadership of the IRPS decided to mark progress in the field during 2020 by convening a collection of papers in Journal of Neuroendocrinology to provide examples of the role of regulatory peptides in systems physiology, the intended core theme for the planned 2020 meeting. This Special Issue is the product of this endeavor.

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RegPep2020 特刊社论


去年 3 月，我们很高兴地宣布，随着国际监管肽协会 (IRPS) 采用《神经内分泌学杂志》作为其官方期刊，多年来不断发展的协会正式成立。在巩固这种关系的过程中，我们期待着与 IRPS 官员围绕学会两年一次的会议以及其他倡议进行合作，以促进学会及其目标，同时加强我们有价值的学会拥有的期刊。我们特别期待计划举行的第 23^届RegPep 世界会议 (RegPep2020)，即下一次 IRPS 会议。不幸的是，与许多其他活动一样，COVID-19 大流行阻止了 2020 年的任何会议，第 23^届RegPep 会议现计划于今年 8 月以面对面/虚拟混合会议的形式举行（http://www.RegPep.org）。 regpep.org/）。尽管计划的会议日程被打乱，IRPS 的领导层还是决定在 2020 年标志着该领域的进展，在《神经内分泌学杂志》上召开一系列论文，提供调节肽在系统生理学中的作用的例子，这是预期的核心主题计划于 2020 年举行的会议。本期特刊就是这一努力的成果。