Urocortin expression in the human central nervous system

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 107-114

  Iino, Kazumi ^a,b   Sasano, Hironobu ^a   Oki, Yutaka ^b   Andoh, Noriaki ^a   Shin, Ryong Woon ^a   Kitamoto, Tetsuyuki ^a   Takahashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Suzuki, Hiroyoshi ^c   Tezuka, Fumiaki ^c   Yoshimi, Teruya ^b   Nagura, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; UROCORTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CADAVER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFUNDIBULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PITUITARY GLAND; PURKINJE CELLS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033036478     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1999.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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