"Enkephalin, Methionine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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One of the endogenous pentapeptides with morphine-like activity. It differs from LEU-ENKEPHALIN by the amino acid METHIONINE in position 5. Its first four amino acid sequence is identical to the tetrapeptide sequence at the N-terminal of BETA-ENDORPHIN.
| Descriptor ID |
D004744
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.400.575.281.381 D12.776.631.650.575.281.381
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| Concept/Terms |
Enkephalin, Methionine- Enkephalin, Methionine
- Methionine Enkephalin
- Met-Enkephalin
- Met Enkephalin
- Met(5)-Enkephalin
- 5-Methionine Enkephalin
- 5 Methionine Enkephalin
- Enkephalin, 5-Methionine
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Enkephalin, Methionine" by people in Profiles.
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Torres-Rever?n A, Palermo K, Hern?ndez-L?pez A, Hern?ndez S, Cruz ML, Thompson KJ, Flores I, Appleyard CB. Endometriosis Is Associated With a Shift in MU Opioid and NMDA Receptor Expression in the Brain Periaqueductal Gray. Reprod Sci. 2016 09; 23(9):1158-67.
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Brestoff JR, Kim BS, Saenz SA, Stine RR, Monticelli LA, Sonnenberg GF, Thome JJ, Farber DL, Lutfy K, Seale P, Artis D. Group 2 innate lymphoid cells promote beiging of white adipose tissue and limit obesity. Nature. 2015 Mar 12; 519(7542):242-6.
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Paladini CA, Beckstead MJ, Weinshenker D. Electrophysiological properties of catecholaminergic neurons in the norepinephrine-deficient mouse. Neuroscience. 2007 Feb 09; 144(3):1067-74.
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Cheng PY, Svingos AL, Wang H, Clarke CL, Jenab S, Beczkowska IW, Inturrisi CE, Pickel VM. Ultrastructural immunolabeling shows prominent presynaptic vesicular localization of delta-opioid receptor within both enkephalin- and nonenkephalin-containing axon terminals in the superficial layers of the rat cervical spinal cord. J Neurosci. 1995 Sep; 15(9):5976-88.
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Ohia SE, Laniyonu AA. Naloxone-insensitive inhibitory and excitatory effects of opioid agonists in the rat isolated uterus. J Pharm Pharmacol. 1989 Mar; 41(3):168-72.