Enkephalins
"Enkephalins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
One of the three major families of endogenous opioid peptides. The enkephalins are pentapeptides that are widespread in the central and peripheral nervous systems and in the adrenal medulla.
| Descriptor ID |
D004745
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.400.575.281 D12.776.641.650.575.281
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| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Enkephalins" by people in Profiles.
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Yang FC, Vivian JL, Traxler C, Shapiro SM, Stanford JA. MGE-Like Neural Progenitor Cell Survival and Expression of Parvalbumin and Proenkephalin in a Jaundiced Rat Model of Kernicterus. Cell Transplant. 2022 Jan-Dec; 31:9636897221101116.
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Sonnenberg JL, Rauscher FJ, Morgan JI, Curran T. Regulation of proenkephalin by Fos and Jun. Science. 1989 Dec 22; 246(4937):1622-5.