Identification of melanin concentrating hormone (MCH) as the natural ligand for the orphan somatostatin‐like receptor 1 (SLC‐1)
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- 2 September 1999
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 457 (3) , 522-524
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(99)01092-3
Abstract
To identify possible ligands of the orphan somatostatin‐like receptor 1 (SLC‐1), rat brain extracts were analyzed by using the functional expression system of Xenopus oocytes injected with cRNAs enco...Keywords
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