Genome-wide census and expression profiling of chicken neuropeptide and prohormone convertase genes

Neuropeptides

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-44

  Delfino, K R ^a   Southey, B R ^a   Sweedler, J V ^a   Rodriguez Zas, S L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken genome; Convertase; Microarray experiment; Neuropeptide; Prohormone

Indexed keywords

ADRENOMEDULLIN; AMIDE; APELIN; AUGURIN; C RF AMIDE; CHROMOGRANIN A; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; FURIN; INSULIN LIKE PEPTIDE 5; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE C TYPE 1 PRECURSOR; NEUROMEDIN U; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE B; NEUROPEPTIDE S; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR A; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR D; PREPRONOCICEPTIN; PROENKEPHALIN; RELAXIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN TISSUE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME DEGRADATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HEAD; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SMALL INTESTINE; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHICKENS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DUODENUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INSULIN; LIVER; MAMMALS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASES; PROTEINS; RETINA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 73549094449     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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