Calcium influx through voltage-operated calcium channels is required for proopiomelanocortin protein expression in Xenopus melanotropes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1040, Issue , 2005, Pages 494-497

  Van Den Hurk, M J J ^a   Scheenen, W J J M ^a   Roubos, E W ^a   Jenks, B G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Pars intermedia; Pituitary; POMC; VOCC; MSH

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CALCIUM ION; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 22144443121     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1327.101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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