"Receptor, Melatonin, MT2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A melatonin receptor subtype primarily found expressed in the BRAIN and RETINA.
| Descriptor ID |
D044123
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.543.750.695.440.750
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| Concept/Terms |
Receptor, Melatonin, MT2- Receptor, Melatonin, MT2
- Melatonin 1b Receptor
- Receptor, Melatonin 1b
- MT2 Receptor
- Receptor, MT2
- Mel 1b Receptor
- Melatonin MT2 Receptor
- MT2 Receptor, Melatonin
- Receptor, Melatonin MT2
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| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Receptor, Melatonin, MT2" by people in Profiles.
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Type 2 diabetes-associated variants of the MT2 melatonin receptor affect distinct modes of signaling. Sci Signal. 2018 08 28; 11(545).
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Genetic fine mapping and genomic annotation defines causal mechanisms at type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci. Nat Genet. 2015 Dec; 47(12):1415-25.
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Association of type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci with one-year weight loss in the look AHEAD clinical trial. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012 Aug; 20(8):1675-82.
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Variants in MTNR1B influence fasting glucose levels. Nat Genet. 2009 Jan; 41(1):77-81.