Cloning of the cDNA encoding the urotensin II precursor in frog and human reveals intense expression of the urotensin II gene in motoneurons of the spinal cord

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 26, 1998, Pages 15803-15808

  Coulouarn, Yolaine ^a   Lihrmann, Isabelle ^a   Jegou, Sylvie ^a   Anouar, Youssef ^a   Tostivint, Herve ^a   Beauvillain, Jean Claude ^b   Conlon, J Michael ^c   Bern, Howard A ^d   Vaudry, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Evolution; Neuropeptides

Indexed keywords

BRAIN EXTRACT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; UROTENSIN II;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FISH; FROG; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SPINAL CORD;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CARPS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTOR NEURONS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RANA RIDIBUNDA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UROTENSINS;

EID: 0032428160     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.26.15803     Document Type: Article

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