Expression of leptin receptor (Ob-R) isoforms and signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) mRNAs in the mouse taste buds

Archives of Histology and Cytology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 253-260

  Shigemura, Noriatsu ^a   Miura, Hirohito ^b,c   Kusakabe, Yuko ^b,c   Hino, Akihiro ^b,c   Ninomiya, Yuzo ^a,c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Bio Oriented Tech Res Adv Inst   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; STAT PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONAL REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEETNESS; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TASTE BUDS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSDUCIN;

EID: 0141756192     PISSN: 09149465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1679/aohc.66.253     Document Type: Article

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