Ghrelin gene products, receptors, and goat enzyme: Biological and pathophysiological insight

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gahete, Manuel D ^a,b,c   Rincón Fernández, David ^a,b,c   Villa Osaba, Alicia ^a,b,c   Hormaechea Agulla, Daniel ^a,b,c   Ibáñez Costa, Alejandro ^a,b,c   Martínez Fuentes, Antonio J ^a,b,c   Gracia Navarro, Francisco ^a,b,c   Castaño, Justo P ^a,b,c   Luque, Raúl M ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^b University Hospital Reina Sofia   (Spain)

^c Instituto de Salud Carlos III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Endocrine actions; Ghrelin; Ghrelin gene splice variants; Ghsr; Goat; Obestatin; Pathophysiology

Indexed keywords

1,2,3,6 TETRAHYDRO 1 METHYL 4 PHENYLPYRIDINE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GHRELIN; GHRELIN O ACYL TRANSFERASE; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; OBESTATIN; PITUITRIN; PROLACTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACID SECRETION; ACROMEGALY; ACTH SECRETING ADENOMA; ACTH SECRETING CELL; ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ADRENAL TUMOR; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; APPETITE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST CANCER; CACHEXIA; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME 3; COGNITION; COLITIS; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; CROHN DISEASE; CUSHING DISEASE; CYTOLOGY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOCRINE CELL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENERGY BALANCE; EPILEPSY; FOOD INTAKE; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; GONADOTROPH ADENOMA; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING ADENOMA; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART INFARCTION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOPHYSIS FUNCTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTRON RETENTION; ISCHEMIA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONFUNCTIONING PITUITARY ADENOMA; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PANCREATITIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PROLACTINOMA; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REPERFUSION INJURY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STOMACH MOTILITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TESTICULAR ENLARGEMENT; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; THYROTROPIN SECRETING ADENOMA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WEIGHT GAIN; ZONA GLOMERULOSA;

ENDOCRINE ACTIONS; GHRELIN; GHRELIN GENE SPLICE VARIANTS; GHSR; GOAT; OBESTATIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GHRELIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84890280742     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/JOE-13-0391     Document Type: Review

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