A hydrolase enzyme inactivating endogenous ligands for cannabinoid receptors

Journal of Medical Investigation

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 27-36

  Ueda, Natsuo ^a   Goparaju, Sravan Kumar ^a   Katayama, Kazuhisa ^a   Kurahashi, Yuko ^a   Suzuki, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamoto, Shozo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

2 arachidonoylglycerol; Amidohydrolase; Anandamide; Arachidonic acid; Cannabinoid

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; AMIDE; ANANDAMIDE; ANANDAMIDE AMIDOHYDROLASE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ARACHIDONYL DIAZOMETHYL KETONE; ARACHIDONYL-DIAZOMETHYL KETONE; ARACHIDONYLTRIFLUOROMETHANE; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; DRUG RECEPTOR; ENZYME INHIBITOR; ESTERASE; ETHANOLAMINE; FATTY ACID; HYBRID PROTEIN; LIGAND; METHYL ARACHIDONYLFLUOROPHOSPHONATE; NERVE PROTEIN; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL STRAIN COS1; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HYDROLYSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; METABOLISM; RAT; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE; SWINE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACIDS; COS CELLS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTERASES; ETHANOLAMINE; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROLYSIS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LIGANDS; LIVER; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOSPHONIC ACIDS; POLYUNSATURATED ALKAMIDES; RATS; RECEPTORS, CANNABINOID; RECEPTORS, DRUG; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SWINE; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

EID: 0032130443     PISSN: 13431420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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