Melanotropic peptides in the mammalian brain: The melanin-concentrating hormone

Peptides

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1063-1073

  Knigge, Karl M ^a   Baxter Grillo, Dorothea ^a   Speciale, John ^a   Wagner, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

extrapyramidal motor functions; guinea pig; hamster; hypothalamus; mammalian brain; melanin concentrating hormone; monkey; mouse; rabbit; rat; subthalamus

Indexed keywords

MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN REGION; DOG; GENE EXPRESSION; GUINEA PIG; HAMSTER; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAMMAL; MONKEY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; REVIEW; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CAVIA PORCELLUS; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0029951693     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0196-9781(96)00131-3     Document Type: Review

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