The rat melanin-concentrating hormone gene encodes an additional putative protein in a different reading frame

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 4518-4521

  Toumaniantz, Gilles ^a   Bittencourt, Jackson C ^a,b   Nahon, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXON; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029742378     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.10.8828517     Document Type: Article

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