Expression of the proprotein convertases PC1 and PC2 mRNAs in thyrotropin releasing hormone neurons of the rat paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus

Brain Research

Volumn 761, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-86

  Sánchez, Edith ^a   Charli, Jean Louis ^a   Morales, Claudia ^a   Corkidi, Gabriel ^b   Seidah, Nabil G ^c   Joseph Bravo, Patricia ^a   Uribe, Rosa Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Convertase; Hybridization, in situ; Hypothalamus; Paraventricular nucleus; PC1; PC2; Processing; Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH)

Indexed keywords

CONVERTASE; HORMONE PRECURSOR; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTIRELIN; SUBTILISIN; THYROTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEURONS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 2; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBTILISINS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 0343488523     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00280-1     Document Type: Article

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