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Multiple sclerosis, relapses, and the mechanism of action of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH)

Frontiers in Neurology, 2013
Relapses in multiple sclerosis (MS) are disruptive and frequently disabling for patients, and their treatment is often a challenge to clinicians. Despite progress in the understanding of the pathophysiology of MS and development of new treatments for ...
Amy ePerrin Ross, Aliza eBen-Zacharia, Colleen J Harris, Jennifer eSmrtka   +3 more
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Localisation of the melanocortin-2-receptor and its accessory proteins in the developing and adult adrenal gland [PDF]

, 2011
The melanocortin-2-receptor (MC2R)/MC2R accessory protein (MRAP) complex is critical to the production of glucocorticoids from the adrenal cortex. Inactivating mutations in either MC2R or MRAP result in the clinical condition familial glucocorticoid ...
Leonardo Guasti, Adrian J Clark, Guasti, L, Rebecca J Gorrigan, Peter King, Li F Chan, King, P, Clark, AJ, Gorrigan, RJ, Chan, LF   +9 more
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Melanocortin receptors in GtoPdb v.2023.1 [PDF]

, 2023
Melanocortin receptors (provisional nomenclature as recommended by NC-IUPHAR [41]) are activated by members of the melanocortin family (α-MSH, β-MSH and γ-MSH forms; δ form is not found in mammals) and adrenocorticotrophin (ACTH ...
Gantz, Ira, Carrie Haskell-Luevano, Haskell-Luevano, Carrie, Wikberg, Jarl E. S., Adrian J. L. Clark, Schiöth, Helgi, Colin Pouton, Pouton, Colin, Mountjoy, Kathleen G., Roger D. Cone, Jeffrey B. Tatro, Cone, Roger D., Chai, Biao-Xin, Tatro, Jeffrey B., Ira Gantz, Clark, Adrian J. L., Tung M. Fong, Jarl E. S. Wikberg, Vanni Caruso, Biao-Xin Chai, Caruso, Vanni, Fong, Tung M., Eberle, Alex N., Alex N. Eberle, Sadaf Farooqi, Kathleen G. Mountjoy, Helgi Schiöth, Farooqi, Sadaf, Hruby, Victor J., Victor J. Hruby   +29 more
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Adiponectin potentiates the acute effects of leptin in arcuate Pomc neurons

Molecular Metabolism, 2016
Objective: Adiponectin receptors (AdipoRs) are located on neurons of the hypothalamus involved in metabolic regulation – including arcuate proopiomelanocortin (Pomc) and Neuropeptide Y/Agouti-related peptide (NPY/AgRP) neurons.
Jia Sun, Yong Gao, Ting Yao, Yiru Huang, Zhenyan He, Xingxing Kong, Kai-jiang Yu, Rui-tao Wang, Hongbo Guo, Jianqun Yan, Yongsheng Chang, Hong Chen, Philipp E. Scherer, Tiemin Liu, Kevin W. Williams   +14 more
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Differential effects of melanocortin peptides on neural melanocortin receptors.

Molecular Pharmacology, 1994
Melanocortins (MCs) have various physiological actions on the brain. The recent cloning of neural MC receptors opened new avenues to study the effects of these neuropeptides on the nervous system. Here we investigated the structure-activity relationships (SARs) of peptides derived from adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) with cloned MC3 and MC4 ...
Gispen, W.H., Adan, R.A.H., Cone, R.D., Burbach, J.P.H.   +3 more
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Functional characterization of two melanocortin (MC) receptors in lamprey showing orthology to the MC1 and MC4 receptor subtypes

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007
Background The melanocortin (MC) receptors have a key role in regulating body weight and pigmentation. They belong to the rhodopsin family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs).
Kawauchi Hiroshi, Enberg Johan, Ringholm Aneta, Löwgren Maja, Takahashi Akiyoshi, Klovins Janis, Haitina Tatjana, Larson Earl T, Fredriksson Robert, Schiöth Helgi B   +9 more
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Activation of Melanocortin Receptors as a Potential Strategy to Reduce Local and Systemic Reactions Induced by Respiratory Viruses

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020
The clinical hallmarks of infections caused by critical respiratory viruses consist of pneumonia, which can progress to acute lung injury (ALI), and systemic manifestations including hypercoagulopathy, vascular dysfunction, and endotheliitis. The disease
Caterina Lonati, Stefano Gatti, Anna Catania   +2 more
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Regulation of Melanocortin-3 and -4 Receptors by Isoforms of Melanocortin-2 Receptor Accessory Protein 1 and 2

Biomolecules, 2022
The neural melanocortin receptors (MCRs), melanocortin-3 and -4 receptors (MC3R and MC4R), play essential non-redundant roles in the regulation of energy homeostasis. Interaction of neural MCRs and melanocortin-2 receptor accessory proteins (MRAPs, MRAP1
Ren-Lei Ji, Ya-Xiong Tao
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Melanocortin-4 receptor gene: case-control study and transmission disequilibrium test confirm that functionally relevant mutations are compatible with a major gene effect for extreme obesity [PDF]

, 2003
We initially performed a mutation screen of the coding region of the MC4R in 808 extremely obese children and adolescents and 327 underweight or normal-weight controls allowing for a case-control study.
Sarah Hohmann, Hanspeter Goldschmidt, Hohmann, Sarah, Thomas Gudermann, Remschmidt, Helmut, Geller, Frank, Wolfgang Siegfried, Hebebrand, Johannes, Schäfer, Helmut, Anke Hinney, Siegfried, Wolfgang, Brokamp, Britta, Hess, Claudia, Hinney, Anke, Wermter, Anne-Kathrin, Goldschmidt, Hanspeter, Frank Geller, Constanze Vogel, Johannes Hebebrand, Britta Brokamp, Vogel, Constanze, Helmut Remschmidt, Gudermann, Thomas, Claudia Hess, Anne-kathrin Wermter   +24 more
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The Melanocortin System in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Insights into Its Mechanisms and Therapeutic Potentials

Cells, 2023
The melanocortin system is a complex set of molecular mediators and receptors involved in many physiological and homeostatic processes. These include the regulation of melanogenesis, steroidogenesis, neuromodulation and the modulation of inflammatory ...
Antonietta Gerarda Gravina, Raffaele Pellegrino, Tommaso Durante, Giovanna Palladino, Giuseppe Imperio, Giovanbattista D’Amico, Maria Consiglia Trotta, Marcello Dallio, Mario Romeo, Michele D’Amico, Alessandro Federico   +10 more
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