Neuropeptide urocortin 1 and its receptors are expressed in the human liver

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 315-326

  Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a,b   Christodoulou, Eirini ^b   Lambropoulou, Maria ^c   Tsaroucha, Alexandra K ^a   Kakolyris, Stylianos ^d   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a   Karayiannakis, Athanassios J ^a,b   Chatzaki, Ekaterini ^b,e  

^a Second Department of Surgery

^b Postgraduate Program in Hepatobiliary/Pancreatic Surgery

^c Laboratory of Histology Embryology

^d Department of Oncology ^*

^e DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing hormone; Liver; Liver pathology; Paracrine actions; Urocortin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; UROCORTIN I;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CELL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CARRIER PROTEINS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; UROCORTINS;

EID: 67349120248     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000187136     Document Type: Article

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