Melanocortin‐3 Receptor mRNA Expression in Pro‐Opiomelanocortin Neurones of the Rat Arcuate Nucleus

The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates

1982 • 53,055 citations

Localization of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R) in neuroendocrine and autonomic control circuits in the brain.

1994 • 1,059 citations

Molecular cloning, expression, and gene localization of a fourth melanocortin receptor

1993 • 844 citations

Identification of a receptor for gamma melanotropin and other proopiomelanocortin peptides in the hypothalamus and limbic system.

1993 • 719 citations

Localization of the melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4-R) in neuroendocrine and autonomic control circuits in the brain

1994 • 703 citations

Molecular cloning of a novel melanocortin receptor.

1993 • 683 citations

Synthesis of β-Tubulin, Actin, and Other Proteins in Axons of Sympathetic Neurons in Compartmented Cultures

1999 • 509 citations

Anatomy of an Endogenous Antagonist: Relationship between Agouti-Related Protein and Proopiomelanocortin in Brain

1999 • 411 citations

Identification of proopiomelanocortin neurones in rat hypothalamus by in situ cDNA-mRNA hybridization

1983 • 279 citations

The Melanotropins: Chemistry, Physiology and Mechanisms of Action

1988 • 213 citations

Molecular Cloning and Characterisation of the Rat Fifth Melanocortin Receptor

1994 • 198 citations

Structure of the rat pro‐opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene

1985 • 187 citations

Opioid-Adrenergic-Steroid Connection in Regulation of Luteinizing Hormone Secretion in the Rat

1984 • 161 citations

Evidence that β-endorphin is synthesized in cells in the nucleus tractus solitarius: detection of POMC mRNA

1992 • 150 citations

Brain Melanocortin Receptors: From Cloning to Function

1997 • 138 citations

Characterization of pro-ACTH/endorphin-derived peptides in rat hypothalamus

1986 • 115 citations

Pro-opiocortin fragments in human and rat brain: β-endorphin and α-MSH are the predominant peptides

1980 • 114 citations

Opioids Hyperpolarize β-Endorphin Neurons via μ-Receptor Activation of a Potassium Conductance

1990 • 86 citations

OPIOID REGULATION OF PROLACTIN SECRETION: EVIDENCE FOR A SPECIFIC ROLE OF β-ENDORPHIN

1981 • 75 citations

Distribution of β-lipotropin (β-LPH), adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) in the rat brain. I. Origin of the extrahypothalamic fibers

1980 • 65 citations

Regional Specificity of Testosterone Regulation of Proopiomelanocortin Gene Expression in the Arcuate Nucleus of the Male Rat Brain*

1989 • 65 citations

Feedback inhibition of opioid peptide release in the hypothalamus of the rat

1987 • 55 citations

Release of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone into rat and human cerebrospinal fluid in vivo and from rat hypothalamus slices in vitro

1981 • 46 citations

Demonstration of in vivo synthesis of pro-opiomelanocortin-, beta- endorphin-, and alpha-melanotropin-like species in the adult rat brain

1984 • 44 citations

Different Developmental Patterns of Melanocortin MC3 and MC4 Receptor mRNA: Predominance of Mc4 in Fetal Rat Nervous System

1998 • 44 citations

The melanocortin (MC3) receptor from rat hypothalamus: Photoaffinity labelling and binding of alanine‐substituted α‐MSH analogues

1994 • 43 citations

Endogenous opiates: 1995

1996 • 43 citations

Effect of Chronic Naltrexone and Methadone Administration on Brain Immunoreactive β-Endorphin in the Rat

1983 • 42 citations

ACTH-immunoreactive buotons form synaptic contacts in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus of rat: evidence for local opiocortin connections

1983 • 40 citations

The distribution of alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone (alpha-MSH) in the central nervous system of the rat: an immunohistochemical study--I. Forebrain and upper brain stem.

1983 • 37 citations

μ-Opioid receptor mRNA expression in proopiomelanocortin neurons of the rat arcuate nucleus

1999 • 34 citations

Physiological role of alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in modulating the secretion of prolactin and luteinizing hormone in the female rat.

1984 • 34 citations

Demonstration of contacts between proopiomelanocortin neurons in the rat hypothalamus

1983 • 32 citations

Glucocorticoid regulation of proopiomelanocortin mRNA levels in rat arcuate nucleus

1990 • 30 citations

α-Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) release from perifused rat hypothalamic slices

1987 • 28 citations

Effect of opioid receptor antagonism on proopiomelanocortin peptide levels and gene expression in the hypothalamus

1992 • 26 citations

Effect of opioid antagonism on β-endorphin processing and proopiomelanocortin-peptide release in the hypothalamus

1994 • 26 citations

α MELANOCYTE STIMULATING HORMONE INDUCES GONADOTROPIN RELEASE

1981 • 24 citations

Supression of basal and stress-induced prolactin release and stimulation of luteinizing hormone secretion by α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone

1985 • 23 citations

Interrelations between Hypothalamic Somatostatin and Proopiomelanocortin Neurons

1998 • 21 citations

Melanotropins as Neuropeptides

1993 • 15 citations

Activation of the GABAA-benzodiazepine receptor complex inhibits proopiomelanocortin gene expression in the rat arcuate nucleus

1991 • 10 citations