Molecular characterization of the melanin-concentrating-hormone receptor

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6741, 1999, Pages 265-269

  Saito, Yumiko ^a   Nothacker, Hans Peter ^a   Wang, Zhiwei ^a   Lin, Steven H S ^a   Leslie, Frances ^a,b   Civelli, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN EXTRACT; LIGAND; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD INTAKE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CHO CELLS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CRICETINAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; LIGANDS; MELANINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY HORMONES; RATS; RECEPTORS, SOMATOSTATIN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SALMON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033566084     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22321     Document Type: Article

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