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Huda Akil

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Hazizan Md Akil

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Endogenous opioids: biology and function

H Akil, SJ Watson, E Young, ME Lewis… - Annual review of …, 1984 - annualreviews.org
… In fact, the main product in the intermediate lobe is not -END-(1-31), but rather N-acetyl- -END-(1-27),
a peptide totally devoid of activity at the opioid receptor (Akil et alI981c). Similar …

Anatomy of CNS opioid receptors

A Mansour, H Khachaturian, ME Lewis, H Akil… - Trends in …, 1988 - cell.com
There is a wide body of evidence to suggest the existence of at least three distinct opioid
receptor types in the CNS, referred to as~, 6, and K. This paper reviews some of the findings …

Classification, processing and application of hydrogels: A review

…, MBH Othman, F Javed, Z Ahmad, HM Akil - Materials Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
This article aims to review the literature concerning the choice of selectivity for hydrogels
based on classification, application and processing. Super porous hydrogels (SPHs) and …

Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

…, ME Goddard, JS Witte, D Absher, I Agartz, H Akil… - Nature …, 2013 - cdr.lib.unc.edu
Most psychiatric disorders are moderately to highly heritable. The degree to which genetic
variation is unique to individual disorders or shared across disorders is unclear. To examine …

Genome-wide association study identifies 30 loci associated with bipolar disorder

…, PA Holmans, AL Richards, L Abbott, E Agerbo, H Akil… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a highly heritable psychiatric disorder. We performed a genome-wide
association study (GWAS) including 20,352 cases and 31,358 controls of European descent, …

Rare coding variants in ten genes confer substantial risk for schizophrenia

T Singh, T Poterba, D Curtis, H Akil, M Al Eissa… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Rare coding variation has historically provided the most direct connections between gene
function and disease pathogenesis. By meta-analysing the whole exomes of 24,248 …

Autoradiographic differentiation of mu, delta, and kappa opioid receptors in the rat forebrain and midbrain

…, H Khachaturian, ME Lewis, H Akil… - Journal of …, 1987 - Soc Neuroscience
While there is an abundance of pharmacological and biochemical evidence to suggest the
existence of multiple opioid receptors, their precise localization within the brain is unclear. To …

Pattern and time course of immediate early gene expression in rat brain following acute stress

WE Cullinan, JP Herman, DF Battaglia, H Akil… - Neuroscience, 1995 - Elsevier
The pattern and time course of brain activation in response to acute swim and restraint stress
were examined in the rat by in situ hybridization using complementary RNA probes specific …

Evolving gene/transcript definitions significantly alter the interpretation of GeneChip data

…, WE Bunney, RM Myers, TP Speed, H Akil… - Nucleic acids …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Genome-wide expression profiling is a powerful tool for implicating novel gene ensembles
in cellular mechanisms of health and disease. The most popular platform for genome-wide …

[PDF][PDF] Genomic relationships, novel loci, and pleiotropic mechanisms across eight psychiatric disorders

…, ME Talkowski, LA Weiss, AJ Willsey, I Agartz, H Akil… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Genetic influences on psychiatric disorders transcend diagnostic boundaries, suggesting
substantial pleiotropy of contributing loci. However, the nature and mechanisms of these …