Molecular cloning of proopiomelanocortin cDNA in the ratfish, a holocephalan

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 159-165

  Takahashi, Akiyoshi ^a   Itoh, Toshihiro ^a   Nakanishi, Aiko ^a   Amemiya, Yutaka ^a,c   Ida, Hitoshi ^a   Meguro, Hiroshi ^b   Kawauchi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; AMINO ACID; BETA ENDORPHIN; BETA INTERMEDIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOTROPIN; DELTA INTERMEDIN; GAMMA INTERMEDIN; INTERMEDIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHIMAERA PHANTASMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASMOBRANCHII; FISH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344393088     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2003.08.007     Document Type: Article

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