Expression of mRNA for PACAP and its receptors in intra- and extra-adrenal human pheochromocytomas and their relationship to catecholamine synthesis

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 213-217

  Isobe, Kazumasa ^a   Tatsuno, Ichiro ^b   Yashiro, Toru ^a   Nanmoku, Toru ^a   Takekoshi, Kazuhiro ^a   Kawakami, Yasushi ^a   Nakai, Toshiaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

PACAP (pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide); Pheochromocytoma; PNMT (phenylethanolamine N methyltransferase); TH (tyrosine hydroxylase)

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CODE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; CATECHOLAMINES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY ADENYLATE CYCLASE-ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE, TYPE I; RECEPTORS, PITUITARY HORMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0037469944     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(02)00209-4     Document Type: Article

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