Distinct mechanisms produce functionally complementary actions of neuropeptides that are structurally related but derived from different precursors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 131-147

  Vilim, Ferdinand S ^a   Sasaki, Kosei ^a   Rybak, Jurgen ^b   Alexeeva, Vera ^a   Cropper, Elizabeth C ^a   Jing, Jian ^a   Orekhova, Irina V ^a   Brezina, Vladimir ^a   Price, David ^c   Romanova, Elena V ^d   Rubakhin, Stanislav S ^d   Hatcher, Nathan ^d   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^d   Weiss, Klaudiusz R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; CELLS, CULTURED; FMRFAMIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 74849084038     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3282-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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