Vasopressin and Oxytocin: Molecular Biology and Evolution of the Peptide Hormones and Their Receptors

Vitamins and Hormones

Volumn 51, Issue C, 1995, Pages 235-266

  Mohr, Evita ^a   Meyerhof, Wolfgang ^b   Richter, Dietmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN DERIVATIVE; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DENDRITE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NERVE FIBER; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; AXONS; DENDRITES; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 0029186950     PISSN: 00836729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0083-6729(08)61040-7     Document Type: Article

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