Neuropeptide urocortin and its receptors are expressed in rat Kupffer cells

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-57

  Charalampopoulos, Ioannis ^a   Androulidaki, Ariadne ^a   Minas, Vassilis ^a   Chatzaki, Ekaterini ^b   Tsatsanis, Chistos ^a   Notas, George ^a   Xidakis, Costas ^a   Kolios, George ^a   Kouroumalis, Elias ^a   Margioris, Andrew N ^a   Gravanis, Achille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Inflammation; Kupffer cells; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

ASTRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UROCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KUPFFER CELL; LIVER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; KUPFFER CELLS; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 33845783778     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000096827     Document Type: Article

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