Regional distribution of urocortin-like immunoreactivity and expression of urocortin mRNA in the human brain

Peptides

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 643-647

  Takahashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Totsune, Kazuhito ^a   Sone, Masahiko ^a,b   Murakami, Osamu ^a   Satoh, Fumitoshi ^a   Arihara, Zenei ^a   Sasano, Hironobu ^a   Iino, Kazumi ^a   Mouri, Toraichi ^c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Iwate Hospital   (Japan)

^c Division of Neuroendocrinology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human brain; PCR; Radioimmunoassay; RT PCR; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UROCORTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 17444454191     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(98)00012-6     Document Type: Article

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