Recent progress in relaxin-3-related research

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1041, Issue , 2005, Pages 47-60

  Liu, Changlu ^a   Bonaventure, Pascal ^a   Sutton, Steven W ^a   Chen, Jingcai ^a   Kuei, Chester ^a   Nepomuceno, Diane ^a   Lovenberg, Timothy W ^a  

^a JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

GPCR135; GPCR142; INSL5; Insulin; Nucleus incertus; Relaxin; Relaxin 3; Sensory

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 135; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 142; HORMONE RECEPTOR; INSULIN; INSULIN LIKE 5 PEPTIDE; IODINE 125; LGR7 PROTEIN; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; RELAXIN; RELAXIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGONIST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN STEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PSEUDOGENE; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RESEARCH; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

RODENTIA;

EID: 23644461211     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1282.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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