Distribution of pro-opiomelanocortin and its peptide end products in the brain and hypophysis of the aquatic toad, Xenopus laevis

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 292, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 251-265

  Tuinhof, R ^a   Ubink, R ^a   Tanaka, S ^b   Atzori, C ^c   Van Strien, F J C ^a   Roubos, E W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Background adaptation; Locus coeruleus; POMC peptides; Pro opiomelanocortin; Suprachiasmatic nucleus; Ventral hypothalamic nucleus; Xenopus laevis (anura)

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; ENDORPHIN; GAMMA INTERMEDIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; OPTIC TECTUM; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROBE; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACETYLATION; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENDORPHINS; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MELANOCYTE-STIMULATING HORMONES; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY GLAND; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; MELANOPHORA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031960654     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051056     Document Type: Article

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