Leptin cDNA cloning and its mRNA expression in plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) from different altitudes on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 345, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1405-1413

  Yang, J ^a,b   Zhao, X Q ^a   Guo, S C ^a,b   Li, H G ^a,b   Qi, D L ^a,b   Wang, D P ^a,b   Cao, J H ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Leptin; mRNA expression in different altitudes; Plateau pika

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEPTIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIPID STORAGE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALTITUDE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHINA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; LAGOMORPHA; LEPTIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

MAMMALIA; OCHOTONA CURZONIAE; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS; OCHOTONIDAE;

EID: 33744521014     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.05.052     Document Type: Article

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