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ArticleThe EMBO journal1994

Agonist-specific coupling of a cloned Drosophila octopamine/tyramine receptor to multiple second messenger systems.

S Robb, T R Cheek, F L Hannan, L M Hall, J M Midgley, P D Evans

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Article in The EMBO journal, 1994. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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60citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

60 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 249 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Tyramine action on motoneuron excitability and adaptable tyramine/octopamine ratios adjustProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

S RobbAFRC Laboratory of Molecular Signalling, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK.
T R Cheek
F L Hannan
L M Hall
J M Midgley
P D Evans
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A cloned seven transmembrane-spanning Drosophila octopamine/tyramine receptor, permanently expressed in a Chinese hamster ovary cell line, both inhibits adenylate cyclase activity and leads to the elevation of intracellular Ca2+ levels by separate G-protein-coupled pathways. Agonists of this receptor (octopamine and tyramine), differing by only a single hydroxyl group in their side chain, may be capable of differentially coupling it to different second messenger systems. Thus, a single receptor may have a different pharmacological profile depending on which second messenger system is used to assay its efficacy.

Indexed as

Second Messenger SystemsAnimalsCalciumCHO CellsCloning, MolecularCricetinaeCyclic AMPDrosophilaOctopamineRadioligand AssayReceptors, Biogenic AmineTyramineCalciumCyclic AMPnorsynephrine receptorOctopamineReceptors, Biogenic AmineTyraminetyramine receptor

Identifiers

PMID8137817
PMCPMC394948
OpenAlexW2346553109

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