Medical Subject Headings

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Preferred Name

Melanocortins

Synonyms

Melanocortin

Definitions

Peptides derived from pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) which can stimulate MELANOCYTES or CORTICOTROPHS. Melanocortins include ACTH; ALPHA-MSH; and other peptides such as BETA-MSH and GAMMA-MSH, derived from other fragments of POMC. These peptides act through a variety of MELANOCORTIN RECEPTORS to control different functions including steroidogenesis, energy homeostasis, feeding, and skin pigmentation.

ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D053486

altLabel

Melanocortin

AQL

AD AE AG AI AN BI BL CF CH CL CS DE DF EC GE HI IM IP ME PD PH PK PO RE SD ST TO TU UL UR

cui

C1720997

DC

1

definition

Peptides derived from pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) which can stimulate MELANOCYTES or CORTICOTROPHS. Melanocortins include ACTH; ALPHA-MSH; and other peptides such as BETA-MSH and GAMMA-MSH, derived from other fragments of POMC. These peptides act through a variety of MELANOCORTIN RECEPTORS to control different functions including steroidogenesis, energy homeostasis, feeding, and skin pigmentation.

DX

20070101

HN

2007

Inverse of AQ

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000097

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000096

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000172

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000627

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000648

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000493

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000494

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000276

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000138

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000134

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000266

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000378

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000008

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000009

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000032

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000037

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000191

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000302

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000145

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000592

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000737

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000819

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000502

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000506

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000187

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000235

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000633

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000600

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000652

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000528

Inverse of RB

0

Machine permutation

2007

Mapped from

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/C553405

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/C553406

MDA

20060705

MMR

20200527

MN

D12.644.548.365.935.531

D12.776.631.650.405.935.531

D12.644.400.400.935.531

D06.472.699.631.525.600.531

D06.472.699.327.935.531

D12.644.548.691.525.690.531

notation

D053486

prefLabel

Melanocortins

TERMUI

T663821

T001004508

TH

NLM (2021)

NLM (2007)

tui

T125

T116

subClassOf

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D011333

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