Multiple cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) genes in medaka, Oryzias latipes: Cloning, tissue distribution and effect of starvation

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 494-500

  Murashita, Koji ^a   Kurokawa, Tadahide ^b  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Appetite; CART; CDNA; Medaka; Oryzias latipes; Teleost; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 6; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FOOD INTAKE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REFEEDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; STARVATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78651414837     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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