Decreased Immunoreactivity of the Polypeptide Precursor Pro-Opiomelanocortin (POMC) and the Prohormone Convertase PC1/3 After Chronic Ethanol Exposure in Sprague-Dawley Rats

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 399-406

  Navarro, Montserrat ^a   Cubero, Inmaculada ^b   Thiele, Todd E ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ethanol Consumption; Melanocortin; PC1 3; POMC; Rats

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; FURIN; FURIN 1; FURIN 2; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY BALANCE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ETHANOL; MALE; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84874359146     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2012.01951.x     Document Type: Article

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