Ghrelin-a pleiotropic hormone secreted from endocrine X/A-like cells of the stomach

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Stengel, Andreas ^a   Taché, Yvette ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyl and desacyl; Endocrine cells; Ghrelin; GOAT; Nesfatin 1; Nucb2; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; ENDOTOXIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 6; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; OBESTATIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APPETITE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COLITIS; COPING BEHAVIOR; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; ENDOCRINE CELL; ENERGY METABOLISM; FOOD INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LIVER INJURY; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PANCREATITIS; PLEIOTROPY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPSIS; STOMACH; STOMACH ENDOCRINE X A LIKE CELL; STRESS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; T LYMPHOCYTE; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84862234421     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00024     Document Type: Review

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