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UCN gene

Known as: prepro-urocortin, UCN, UI 
National Institutes of Health

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UCN2 geneUrocortin 1urocortin

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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Effect of urocortin 1 infusion in humans with stable congestive cardiac failure.
In sheep with HF (heart failure), Ucn 1 (urocortin 1) decreases total peripheral resistance and left atrial pressure, and… 
2005
2005
Endogenous urocortins reduce vascular tone and renin-aldosterone/endothelin activity in experimental heart failure.
AIMS To investigate the role of the endogenous urocortin peptides in heart failure (HF) through blockade of the corticotropin… 
2002
2002
Cardiotrophin-1 and urocortin cause protection by the same pathway and hypertrophy via distinct pathways in cardiac myocytes.
Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1) is an Interleukin-6 family cytokine with known hypertrophic and protective effects in cardiac cells. CT-1… 
Review
2001
Review
2001
Cardiovascular actions of CRH and urocortin: an update
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Peripheral urocortin inhibits gastric emptying and food intake in mice: differential role of CRF receptor 2.
Intraperitoneal urocortin inhibits gastric emptying and food intake in mice. We investigated corticotropin-releasing factor… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus injections of urocortin alter food intake and respiratory quotient
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Urocortin relaxes rat tail arteries by a PKA‐mediated reduction of the sensitivity of the contractile apparatus for calcium
Urocortin is an endogenous vasodilator although the mechanism of vasorelaxation is not completely understood. The hypothesis that… 
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Suppression of food intake induced by corticotropin-releasing factor family in neonatal chicks.
2000
2000
Identification of urocortin mRNA antisense transcripts in rat tissue
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Urocortin, a newly identified corticotropin-releasing factor-related mammalian peptide, stimulates atrial natriuretic peptide and brain natriuretic peptide secretions from neonatal rat cardiomyocytes…
The effect of urocortin (UCN), a recently characterized mammalian member of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)-related peptide… 
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