Biological importance of the peptides of the calcitonin family as revealed by disruption and transfer of corresponding genes

Peptides

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2027-2038

  Muff, Roman ^a   Born, Walter ^a   Lutz, Thomas A ^a   Fischer, Jan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adrenomedullin; Amylin; Calcitonin gene related peptide; Knockout; Transgene

Indexed keywords

AMYLIN; CALCITONIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NAKED DNA; PEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT DNA;

AREA POSTREMA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FOOD INTAKE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT GENE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET BETA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REDUCTION;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ADRENOMEDULLIN; AMYLOID; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PEPTIDES; TRANSGENES;

EID: 6344221967     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2004.08.007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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