Differential splicing of transcripts encoding the orphanin FQ/nociceptin precursor

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 720-729

  Arjomand, Jamshid ^a   Evans, Chris J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Nociceptin; NOP; ORL1; Orphanin FQ; RT PCR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; METHIONINE; NOCICEPTIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; RNA TRANSLATION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035017048     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2001.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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