Structure, tissue distribution, and pharmacological characterization of Xenopus orexins

Peptides

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1169-1176

  Shibahara, Megumi ^a   Sakurai, Takeshi ^a   Nambu, Tadahiro ^a   Takenouchi, Takato ^a   Iwaasa, Hisashi ^b   Egashira, Shin Ichiro ^b   Ihara, Masaki ^b   Goto, Katsutoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b BANYU PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feeding; Hypothalamus; Immunohistochemistry; Neuropeptide; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; OREXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032709026     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(99)00120-5     Document Type: Article

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