Quantitative measurement of the levels of melanocortin receptor subtype 1, 2, 3 and 5 and pro-opio-melanocortin peptide gene expression in subsets of human peripheral blood leucocytes

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 279-284

  Andersen, G N ^a   Hagglund M ^a   Nagaeva, O ^a   Frangsmyr L ^a   Petrovska, R ^b   Mincheva Nilsson, L ^a   Wikberg, J E S ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CD14 ANTIGEN; CD15 ANTIGEN; CD19 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; MELANOCORTIN 1 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 2 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 3 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN 5 RECEPTOR; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADULT; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BASE SEQUENCE; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES; MONOCYTES; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 1; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 2; RECEPTOR, MELANOCORTIN, TYPE 3; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 16244412296     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.2005.01565.x     Document Type: Article

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