Expression of urocortin and corticotropin-releasing factor receptor subtypes in the human heart

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 340-346

  Kimura, Yuichiro ^a   Takahashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Totsune, Kazuhito ^a   Muramatsu, Yasunari ^b   Kaneko, Chika ^a   Darnel, Andrew D ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^a   Ebina, Masahito ^a   Nukiwa, Toshihiro ^b   Sasano, Hironobu ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UROCORTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 18244383074     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.87.1.8160     Document Type: Article

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