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Dissecting the role of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) in the control of appetite.
Briefings in functional genomics & proteomics - 1 Jul 2005
Murphy Kevin G
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Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) codes for a neuropeptide system with a number of biological roles. The high conservation of CART across species suggests that it has an important role in mammalian physiology. CART is widely expressed in the central nervous system and the periphery, but is particularly concentrated in the hypothalamus. CART peptides, particularly CART (55-102), appear to have...
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