Ghrelin is a growth-hormone-releasing acylated peptide from stomach

Nature

Volumn 402, Issue 6762, 1999, Pages 656-660

  Kojima, Masayasu ^a   Hosoda, Hiroshi ^a   Date, Yukari ^a   Nakazato, Masamitsu ^b   Matsuo, Hisayuki ^a   Kangawa, Kenji ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LIGAND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STOMACH;

ACYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GASTRIC MUCOSA; GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PEPTIDES; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE; STOMACH;

EID: 0033540056     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/45230     Document Type: Article

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