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Endocrinology Suggested Readings-Site 15
POMC, Endorphins, and ACTH
- Choh Hao Li and David Chung 1976 Isolation and structure of an untriakontapeptide
with opiate activity from camel pituitary glands. Biochemistry 73(4):1145-1148.
- Nicholas Ling RB and Roger Guillemin 1976 Isolation, primary structure,
and synthesis of a-endorphin. Biochemistry 73(11):3942-3946.
- Shigetada Nakanishi and AI Toru Kita 1979 Nucleotide sequence of cloned
cDNA for bovine corticotropin-B-lipotropin
precursor. Nature 278:423-427.
- Richard E. Mains and Betty A. Eipper 1980 Biosynthetic studies on ACTH,
B-endorphin, and a-melanotropin in the
rat. Ann NY Acad Sci 343:95-110.
- Walter L. Miller and LK Johnson 1980 Processing of the precursor to
corticotropin and B-lipotropin in humans. Biochemistry
77(9):5211-5215.
- H. P. J. Bennet and CA Browne 1981 Biosynthesis of phosphorylated forms
of corticotropin-related peptides. Biochemistry 78(8):4713-4717.
- Daniel L. Kilpatrick, TT Barry, and N Jones 1981 A highly potent 3200-dalton
adrenal opoid peptide that contains both a [Met]- and [Leu]enkephalin sequence.
Neurobiology 78(5):3265-3268.
- Lars-Inge Larsson 1981 Adrenocorticotropin-like and a-melanotropin-like
peptides in a subpopulation of human gastrin cell granules: Bioassay, immunoassay,
and immunocytochemical evidence. Cell Biology 78(5):2990-2994.
- Marc Lauber and PN Hamadi Boussetta 1981 The Mr 80,000 common
forms of neurophysin and vasopressin from bovine-like sequences and liberate
by proteolysis biologically active corticotropin. Biochemistry 78(10):6086-6090.
- Richard E. Mains and Betty A. Eipper 1981 Coordinate, equimolar secretion
of smaller peptide products derived from pro-ACTH/endorphin by mouse pituitary
tumor cells. The Journal of Cell Biology 89:21-28.
- N. G. Seidah and M. Chrétien 1981 Complete amino acid sequence
of a human pituitary glycopeptide: An important maturation product of pro-opiomelanocortin.
Biochemistry 78(7):4236-4240.
- Seppo Leisti and WL Miller 1982 Synthesis of growth hormone, prolactin,
and proopiomelanocortin by ovine fetal anterior and neurointermediate lobes.
Endocrinology 111(4):1368-1374.
- Walter L. Miller SL and Lorin K Johnson 1982 Synthesis of growth hormone,
prolactin, and proopiomelanocortin by intact adult ovine pituitary tissue
in vitro. Endocrinology 111(4):1358-1367.
- Jean L. Marx 1983 Synthesizing the opioid peptides. Science 220:395-397.
- Michael A. Bozarth and Roy A. Wise 1984 Anatomically distinct opiate
receptor fields mediate reward and physical dependence. Science 224:516-517.
- John E. Pintar and BS Schachter 1984 Characterization and localization
of proopionelanocortin messenger RNA in the adult rat testis. Science
225:632-634.
- Yehuda Shavit and JW Lewis 1984 Opioid peptides mediate the suppressive
effect of stress on natural killer cell cytotoxity. Science 223:188-190.
- Hugo Lagercrantz and Theodore A. Slotkin 1986 The "stress"
of being born. Scientifc American 254(4):100-107.
- James W. Findling and WC Engleland 1990 The use of immunoradiometric
assay for the measurement of ACTH in human plasma. TEM 1:283-287.
- John W. Funder 1990 Target tissue specificity of mineralocorticoids.
TEM 1:145-148.
- Richard E. Mains and Betty A. Eipper 1990 The tissue-specific processing
of pro-ACTH/endorphin: Recent advances and unsolved problems. TEM 1:388-394.
- Jeffrey I. Mechanick and Andrea Dunaif 1990 Hirsutism. TEM 1:185-188.
- P. M. Stewart and C. R. W. Edwards 1990 Specificity of the mineralocorticoid
receptor: Crucial role of 11 B-hydroxysteroid
dehydrogenase. TEM 1:225-230.
- Peter J. Trainer and Michael Besser 1990 Cushing's syndrome: Difficulties
in diagnosis. TEM 1:292-295.
- James P. Herman and MK Schafer 1992 Rapid regulation of corticotropin-releasing
hormone gene transcription in vivo. Molecular Endocrinology 6(7):1061-1069.
- Margaret Wong and AJ Krolczyk 1992 The causal relationship between
mutations in cAMP-dependent protein kinase and the loss of adrenocorticotropin-regulated
adrenocortical functions. Molecular Endocrinology 6(10):1614-1624.
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