The melanocortin receptors
By: edited by Roger D. Cone.
Contributors: Cone, Roger D.
Series: The Receptors
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
Subjects: Receptors, Corticotropin -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Editor affiliated with Oregon Health Sciences University.
Table of contents: title: Pt.1. Historical perspectives; title: Proopiomelanocortin and the melanocortin peptides; title: Melanocortins and pigmentation; title: Melanocortins and adrenocortical function; title: Effects of melanocortins in the nervous system; title: Peripheral effects of melanocortins; title: Pt.2. Characterization of the melanocortin receptors; title: Melanocrotin receptor expression and function in the nervous system; title: Cloning of the melanocortin receptors; title: Pt.3. Biochemical mechanism of receptor action; title: The molecular pharmacology of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone: structure-activity relationships for melanotropins at melanocortin receptors; title: In vitro mutagenesis studies of melanocortin receptor coupling and ligand binding; title: Pt.4. Receptor function; title: the melanocortin-1 receptor; title: The human melanocortin-1 receptor; title: The melanocortin-2 receptor in normal adrenocrotical funciton and familial adrenocrorticotropic hormone resistance; title: The melanocortin-3 receptor; title: The melanocortin-4 receptor; title: The melanocortin-5 receptor; title: Pt.5. Receptor regulation; title: Regulation of the melanocortin receptors by Agouti; title: Melanocrotins and melanoma; title: Regulation of the mouse and human melanocortin-1 receptor; title: Pt.6. Future vistas; title: Future vistas.