The distribution and gene expression of adrenomedullin in the rat brain: Peptide/mRNA and precursor/active peptide relationships

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 85-88

  Hwang, I S S ^a   Tang, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Adrenomedullin; Brain; Gel filtration chromatography; Pituitary; Radioimmunoassay; Solutionhybridisation RNase protection assay

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN; BETA ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROADRENOMEDULLIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADRENOMEDULLIN; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PEPTIDES; PITUITARY GLAND; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033612256     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00320-1     Document Type: Article

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