Minireview: CRF and Wylie Vale: A story of 41 amino acids and a Texan with grit

Endocrinology

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2556-2561

  Bale, Tracy L ^a   Chen, Alon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; UROCORTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATTITUDE; HISTORY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SHORT SURVEY;

AMINO ACIDS; CALIFORNIA; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; TEXAS;

EID: 84861304312     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2012-1273     Document Type: Short Survey

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