Table 1.
Components of cell signaling and communication preferentially expressed in the hypothalamus.
| Function and tag sequences | Tag frequency |
Description (UniGene cluster, GenBank accession no.) | Chromosomal location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parietal cortex | Pituitary gland | Hypothalamus | |||
| NEUROPEPTIDE (FEEDING BEHAVIOR) | |||||
| TGTGACGCTGG | 1 | 0 | 37 | Cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript (Mm.75498, NM_013732) | 13 |
| GGCCGCCGCGC | 1 | 0 | 33 | Hypocretin (Mm.10096, NM_010410) | 11 |
| HORMONE | |||||
| GAGACAAGGCC | 1 | 0 | 39 | Angiotensinogen (Mm.285467, NM_007428) | 8 |
| GTCAGATGAGG | 0 | 0 | 8 | Thyrotropin releasing hormone (Mm.1363, NM_009426) | 6 |
| INTRACELLULAR TRANSDUCERS | |||||
| TAACCGTTTTC | 2 | 2 | 17 | Growth factor receptor bound protein 10 (Mm.273117, BC016111) | 11 |
| CATTGTGTGGC | 5 | 1 | 39 | Pregnancy upregulated non-ubiquitously expressed CaM kinase (Mm.89564, NM_012040) | X |
| METABOLISM | |||||
| TCTTGGGCTAA | 6 | 2 | 31 | Acetylcholinesterase (Mm.255464, NM_009599) | 5 |
| AGTTCCTTCGC | 1 | 0 | 34 | Calbindin 2 (Mm.2755, NM_007586) | 8 |
| TRANSPORT PROTEINS | |||||
| GGGCTGGGTAG | 4 | 2 | 36 | Gamma-aminobutyric acid GABA-A transporter 4 (Mm.44683, NM_172890) | 6 |
All tags are expressed at higher levels in the hypothalamus compared to other two regions, p < 0.05.