Comparative analyses of the pigment-aggregating and -dispersing actions of MCH on fish chromatophores

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 75-84

  Oshima, Noriko ^a   Nakamaru, Naohiko ^a   Araki, Sachiko ^a   Sugimoto, Masazumi ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cAMP; Chromatophores; Erythrophores; Fish; Leucophores; Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH); Melanin concentrating hormone (MCH) receptor; Melanophores; Xanthophores

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; HORMONE RECEPTOR; INHIBITORY GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MELANIN; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPPING PHENOMENON; CATFISH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; MALE; MELANOPHORE; NONHUMAN; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TILAPIA;

LEUCOPHORA; MELANOPHORA; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TILAPIA;

EID: 0034977127     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1532-0456(01)00187-9     Document Type: Article

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