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Title: Metabolism, genotoxicity, and carcinogenicity of comfrey.
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Title: Pharmacological characterization of 30 human melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphisms with the endogenous proopiomelanocortin-derived agonists, synthetic agonists, and the endogenous agouti-related protein antagonist.
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Title: Comfrey (Symphytum Officinale. l.) and Experimental Hepatic Carcinogenesis: A Short-term Carcinogenesis Model Study.
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Title: The influence of alpha-, beta-, and gamma-melanocyte stimulating hormone on acetaminophen induced liver lesions in male CBA mice.
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Title: Chiral stationary phases for separation of intermedine and lycopsamine enantiomers from Symphytum uplandicum.
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Title: Characterization of the sea bass melanocortin 5 receptor: a putative role in hepatic lipid metabolism.
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Title: Corticotropin-releasing factor is a downstream mediator of the beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-induced anorexigenic pathway in chicks.
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Title: Gpnmb is a melanosome-associated glycoprotein that contributes to melanocyte/keratinocyte adhesion in a RGD-dependent fashion.
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Title: Molecular cloning, tissue distribution and quantitative analysis of two proopiomelanocortin mRNAs in Japanese flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus).
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Title: Lys-gamma3-MSH: a global regulator of hormone sensitive lipase activity?
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Title: Regulation of pigmentation in human epidermal melanocytes by functional high-affinity beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone/melanocortin-4 receptor signaling.
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Title: Melanocortin-4 receptor mutations in obesity.
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Title: Peripheral antinociceptive effects of MC4 receptor antagonists in a rat model of neuropathic pain - a biochemical and behavioral study.
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Title: Regulation of melanogenesis--controversies and new concepts.
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Title: Beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone potently reduces appetite via the hypothalamus in chicks.
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Title: A derivative of the melanocortin receptor antagonist SHU9119 (PG932) increases food intake when administered peripherally.
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Title: Neuropeptide processing and its impact on melanocortin pathways.
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Title: Proopiomelanocortin (POMC), the ACTH/melanocortin precursor, is secreted by human epidermal keratinocytes and melanocytes and stimulates melanogenesis.
Journal: FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20070601
Title: cDNA cloning of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) and mass spectrometric identification of POMC-derived peptides from snake and alligator pituitaries.
Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20070515
Title: Melanocortin receptor 4 is induced in nerve-injured motor and sensory neurons of mouse.
Journal: Journal of neurochemistry 20070501
Title: Further evidence for ancient role of ACTH peptides at melanocortin (MC) receptors; pharmacology of dogfish and lamprey peptides at dogfish MC receptors.
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Title: Structure-activity relationships of beta-MSH derived melanocortin-4 receptor peptide agonists.
Journal: Current topics in medicinal chemistry 20070101
Title: Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of ligands selective for the melanocortin-3 receptor.
Journal: Current topics in medicinal chemistry 20070101
Title: Functional characterization of two melanocortin (MC) receptors in lamprey showing orthology to the MC1 and MC4 receptor subtypes.
Journal: BMC evolutionary biology 20070101
Title: The role of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurones in feeding behaviour.
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Title: A comparative study of the central effects of specific proopiomelancortin (POMC)-derived melanocortin peptides on food intake and body weight in pomc null mice.
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Title: Unraveling the genetics of human obesity.
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Title: The differential influences of melanocortins on nociception in the formalin and tail flick tests.
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Title: Posttranslational processing of proopiomelanocortin family molecules in sea lamprey based on mass spectrometric and chemical analyses.
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Title: Role of the melanocortin system in inflammation.
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Title: Pharmacological characterization of 40 human melanocortin-4 receptor polymorphisms with the endogenous proopiomelanocortin-derived agonists and the agouti-related protein (AGRP) antagonist.
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Title: The MC3 receptor binding affinity of melanocortins correlates with the nitric oxide production inhibition in mice brain inflammation model.
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Title: Melanocortins in human melanocytes.
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Title: Molecular cloning and characterization of preproopiomelanocortin (prePOMC) cDNA from the ostrich (Struthio camelus).
Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20060501
Title: Prevalence, spectrum, and functional characterization of melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations in a representative population-based sample and obese adults from Germany.
Journal: The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 20060501
Title: Expression of three proopiomelanocortin subtype genes and mass spectrometric identification of POMC-derived peptides in pars distalis and pars intermedia of barfin flounder pituitary.
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Title: Melanocortin-4 receptors, beta-MSH and leptin: key elements in the satiety pathway.
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Title: The molecular genetics of the melanocortin pathway and energy homeostasis.
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Title: A POMC variant implicates beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in the control of human energy balance.
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Title: A role for beta-melanocyte-stimulating hormone in human body-weight regulation.
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Title: Analysis of gene expression changes in relation to toxicity and tumorigenesis in the livers of Big Blue transgenic rats fed comfrey (Symphytum officinale).
Journal: BMC bioinformatics 20060101
Title: Beta-MSH inhibits brain inflammation via MC(3)/(4) receptors and impaired NF-kappaB signaling.
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Title: A novel mechanism in control of human pigmentation by {beta}-melanocyte-stimulating hormone and 7-tetrahydrobiopterin.
Journal: The Journal of endocrinology 20051101
Title: Potent peptide agonists for human melanocortin 3 and 4 receptors derived from enzymatic cleavages of human beta-MSH(5-22) by dipeptidyl peptidase I and dipeptidyl peptidase IV.
Journal: Peptides 20051001
Title: Inhibition of morphine tolerance by spinal melanocortin receptor blockade.
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Title: Functional selectivity of melanocortin 4 receptor peptide and nonpeptide agonists: evidence for ligand-specific conformational states.
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Title: Trends in the evolution of the proopiomelanocortin gene.
Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20050515
Title: Discovery of a beta-MSH-derived MC-4R selective agonist.
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Title: Nucleotide sequence and expression of three subtypes of proopiomelanocortin mRNA in barfin flounder.
Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20050501
Title: Isolation and characterization of a novel proopiomelanocortin-derived peptide from hemofiltrate of chronic renal failure patients.
Journal: Endocrinology 20050401
Title: Pharmacological characterization of melanocortin receptors in fish suggests an important role for ACTH.
Journal: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20050401
Title: Differential utilization of pyrrolizidine alkaloids by males of a danaid butterfly, Parantica sita, for the production of danaidone in the alar scent organ.
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Title: Mutagenicity of comfrey (Symphytum Officinale) in rat liver.
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Title: Evidence for an interaction between CB1 cannabinoid and melanocortin MCR-4 receptors in regulating food intake.
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Title: The melanocortin system in Fugu: determination of POMC/AGRP/MCR gene repertoire and synteny, as well as pharmacology and anatomical distribution of the MCRs.
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Title: Identification and characterization of melanocortin-4 receptor gene mutations in morbidly obese finnish children and adults.
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Title: Beta- and gamma-melanocortins inhibit lipopolysaccharide induced nitric oxide production in mice brain.
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Title: Molecular cloning of proopiomelanocortin cDNA in the ratfish, a holocephalan.
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Title: Identification of two proopiomelanocortin genes in zebrafish (Danio rerio).
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Title: Characterizing a proopiomelanocortin cDNA cloned from the brain of the Bichir, Polypterus senegalus: evaluating phylogenetic relationships among ray-finned fish.
Journal: General and comparative endocrinology 20031201
Title: Alcoholism and obesity: overlapping neuropeptide pathways?
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Title: Melanocortins and their receptors and antagonists.
Journal: Current drug targets 20031001
Title: Structure-activity relationships of novel cyclic alpha-MSH/beta-MSH hybrid analogues that lead to potent and selective ligands for the human MC3R and human MC5R.
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Title: Presence of the delta-MSH sequence in a proopiomelanocortin cDNA cloned from the pituitary of the galeoid shark, Heterodontus portusjacksoni.
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Title: The role of melanocortins and their receptors in inflammatory processes, nerve regeneration and nociception.
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Title: Evaluating the radiation of the POMC gene in teleosts: characterization of American eel POMC.
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Title: Molecular cloning, pharmacological characterization, and brain mapping of the melanocortin 4 receptor in the goldfish: involvement in the control of food intake.
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Title: Detection and characterization of methionine oxidation in peptides by collision-induced dissociation and electron capture dissociation.
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Title: Exploring the stereostructural requirements of peptide ligands for the melanocortin receptors.
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Title: Significance of the melanocortin 1 receptor in regulating human melanocyte pigmentation, proliferation, and survival.
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Title: Biochemical processing of plant acquired pyrrolizidine alkaloids by the neotropical leaf-beetle Platyphora boucardi.
Journal: Insect biochemistry and molecular biology 20030501
Title: The pro-opiomelanocortin gene of the zebrafish (Danio rerio).
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Title: Molecular cloning of proopiomelanocortin (POMC) cDNA from mud turtle, Pelodiscus sinensis.
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Title: Inverse agonist activity of agouti and agouti-related protein.
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Title: beta-MSH: a functional ligand that regulated energy homeostasis via hypothalamic MC4-R?
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Title: Identification of proopiomelanocortin-related peptides in the rostral pars distalis of the pituitary in coelacanth: evolutional implications.
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Title: Sequestration and metabolism of protoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids by larvae of the leaf beetle Platyphora boucardi and their transfer via pupae into defensive secretions of adults.
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Title: The role of melanocortins in body weight regulation: opportunities for the treatment of obesity.
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Title: A missense mutation disrupting a dibasic prohormone processing site in pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) increases susceptibility to early-onset obesity through a novel molecular mechanism.
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Title: Toxic pyrrolyzidine alkaloids from three mongolian plants. a possible risk for cattle poisoning.
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Title: Sustained orexigenic effect of Agouti related protein may be not mediated by the melanocortin 4 receptor.
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Title: Pyrrolizidine alkaloids in Pulmonaria obscura.
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Title: The role of melanocortins in body weight regulation: opportunities for the treatment of obesity.
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Title: Sequestration, metabolism and partial synthesis of tertiary pyrrolizidine alkaloids by the neotropical leaf-beetle Platyphora boucardi.
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Title: Medical mystery: the answer.
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Title: Differential effects of alpha-, beta- and gamma(2)-melanocyte-stimulating hormones on hypothalamic neuronal activation and feeding in the fasted rat.
Journal: Neuroscience 20010101