Cotricotropin-releasing factor receptors: An overview

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology and Diabetes

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 65-82

  Dieterich, K D ^a   Lehnert, H ^a   De Souza, E B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

^b NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

CNS disorder; CRF; CRF receptor; CRF binding protein; Stress

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIOR; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MENTAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 0030612148     PISSN: 09477349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1211730     Document Type: Review

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