Transthyretin in fish: State of the art

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1244-1249

  Santos, Cecilia R A ^a   Anjos, Liliana ^a   Power, Deborah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Fish; Nutrition; Retinol binding protein; Thyroid hormones; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; LIOTHYRONINE; LIPOPROTEIN; PREALBUMIN; THYROXINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GILL; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONE BINDING; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; INTESTINE; KIDNEY METABOLISM; LIVER METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; SEA BREAM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN; SPECIES COMPARISON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TELEOST; TESTIS; VERTEBRA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FISHES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREALBUMIN; PROTEIN BINDING; RETINOL-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THYROID HORMONES;

ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; GALLUS GALLUS; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; TELEOST FISH; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036915046     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2002.215     Document Type: Review

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