Neuroendocrine implications for the association between cocaine- and amphetamine regulated transcript (CART) and hypophysiotropic thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2012-2018

  Fekete, Csaba ^a,b   Lechan, Ronald M ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b Division of Endocrinology Diabetes and Hypertension   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript (CART); Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN); Hypothalamic pituitary thyroid axis; Prolactin; Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MONOAMINE; BRAIN PEPTIDE; COCAINE AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DOPAMINE; PROLACTIN; PROTIRELIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CELL POPULATION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROLACTIN SECRETING CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SUCKLING; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN RELEASE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 33746028222     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2005.11.029     Document Type: Review

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