The Identification of Ligands at Orphan G-Protein Coupled Receptors

Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue , 2004, Pages 43-66

  Wise, Alan ^a   Jupe, Steven C ^a   Rees, Stephen ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

7 transmembrane receptor; GPCR; Orphan

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; KYOTORPHIN; LIGAND; NICOTINIC ACID; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NOCISTATIN; OREXIN; PANCREASTATIN; PROSAPOSIN;

BIOINFORMATICS; CLASSIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SCREENING; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

HUMANS; LIGANDS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 1342281272     PISSN: 03621642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pharmtox.44.101802.121419     Document Type: Review

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