The fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH)

Chemistry and Physics of Lipids

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 107-121

  Ueda, Natsuo ^a   Puffenbarger, Robyn A ^b   Yamamoto, Shozo ^a   Deutsch, Dale G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Arachidonoylglycerol; Amid ohydrolase; Amidase; Anandamide; Fatty acid amide hydrolase; Oleamide

Indexed keywords

2 ARACHIDONOYLGLYCEROL; ANANDAMIDE; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FATTY ACID AMIDASE; HYDROLASE; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; OLEAMIDE; RECOMBINANT ENZYME;

CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0033654202     PISSN: 00093084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-3084(00)00190-0     Document Type: Review

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