Isolation and characterization of a leech neuropeptide in rat brains: Coupling to nitric oxide release in leech, rat and human tissues

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 173-179

  Salzet, Michel ^a   Salzet, Beatricé ^a   Sáutière, Pierre ^b   Lésage, Jean ^a   Beauvillain, Jean Claudé ^c   Bilfinger, Thomas V ^d   Rialas, Christos ^e   Bjenning, Christina ^f   Stefano, George B ^d,e  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

^c Lab Neuroendocrinologie P   (France)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; LEECH OSMOREGULATORY FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DUODENUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEECH; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SPINAL CORD; THALAMUS; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; HUMANS; LEECHES; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYOCARDIUM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; TESTIS; VISCERA;

ANIMALIA; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032579764     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00156-3     Document Type: Article

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