Gastric O-acyl transferase activates hunger signal to the brain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 6213-6214

  Tong, Jenny ^a   Pfluger, Paul T ^a   Tschöp, Matthias H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; GHRELIN O ACYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; WNT PROTEIN; ACYLTRANSFERASE; SERINE;

ACYLATION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CELL STRAIN HEK293; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INTERACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUNGER; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH; ANIMAL; BLOOD; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACYLATION; ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; GHRELIN; HUMANS; HUNGER; MICE; SERINE; STOMACH;

EID: 44049086110     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802461105     Document Type: Note

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