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Temperature-sensitive phenotype in mice lacking pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide.
Endocrinology - 1 Oct 2002
Gray Sarah L, Yamaguchi Nobuharu, Vencová Petra, Sherwood Nancy M
Abstract excerpt
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is a highly conserved hormone. Targeted disruption of the PACAP gene has revealed a role for this peptide in lipid metabolism, carbohydrate metabolism, and the sympathetic response to insulin stress. We report here that PACAP null mice are temperature sensitive. When raised at 21 C, only 11% of the PACAP null mice survived past the first 2 wk after birth,...
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