New vistas for melanocortins. Finally, an explanation for their pleiotropic functions

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 897, Issue , 1999, Pages 1-16

  Strand, Fleur L ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CORTICOTROPIN; DYNORPHIN A; DYNORPHIN[1-13]; GAMMA INTERMEDIN; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; MORPHICEPTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FOOD INTAKE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033398213     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07874.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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