Roles of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript in the central nervous system

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 586-592

  Zhang, Meijuan ^a   Han, Lijuan ^a   Xu, Yun ^a,b  

^a THE AFFILIATED DRUM TOWER HOSPITAL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript; Receptors; Signalling pathway

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE;

BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DEMENTIA; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; REWARD; SEIZURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84861653885     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2011.05642.x     Document Type: Review

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