Arginine vasotocin activates phosphoinositide signal transduction system and potentiates N-acetyltransferase activity in the rat pineal gland

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-100

  Novotná, Růžena ^a   Jáč, Martin ^a,b   Hájek, Ivan ^b   Novotný, Ivan ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Arginine vasotocin; AVP 4 9 fragment; Desmopressin; N acetyltransferase; Phosphoinositide signalling; Rat pineal gland

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ARGIPRESSIN[4-9]; ARGIPRESTOCIN; DESMOPRESSIN; MELATONIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; POLYPHOSPHOINOSITIDE; TRIPHOSPHOINOSITIDE; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; VASOPRESSIN V1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOINOSITIDE METABOLISM; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; ARYLAMINE N-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEAMINO ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHATIDIC ACIDS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; PINEAL GLAND; PROPRANOLOL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 0345130020     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00066-X     Document Type: Article

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