Inhibitory and stimulatory control of proopiomelanocortin biosynthesis in the intermediate pituitary of Xenopus laevis.

Ann N Y Acad Sci

Department of Cellular Animal Physiology, Nijmegen Institute for Neurosciences, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Published: May 1998

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