Ghrelin - Satisfying a hunger for the mechanism

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2604-2606

  Cowley, Michael A ^a   Grove, Kevin L ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; GHRELIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUNGER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SATIETY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; EATING; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEINS;

EID: 2542453815     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2004-0346     Document Type: Short Survey

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