International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. XCIV. Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors

Jörg Hamann1, Gabriela Aust1, Demet Araç1

  • 1Department of Experimental Immunology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (J.H.); Department of Surgery, Research Laboratories (G.A), and Institute of Biochemistry (I.L., S.P., T.S.), Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (D.A.); Department of Nephropathology, Institute of Pathology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany (F.B.E.); MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom (C.F.); Department of Neuroscience, Functional Pharmacology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (R.F., A.K., H.B.S.); Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia (R.A.H.); Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri (B.L.H., K.R.M.); Department for Andrology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany (C.K.); Cell and Matrix Biology, Institute of Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany (B.K., U.W.); Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan (H.-H.L.); Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology (D.C.M.) and Division of Hematology (M.V.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands (M.C.P.); Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (M.C.P., T.W.S.); Division of Newborn Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (X.P., K.S.); Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom (M.S.); Medway School of Pharmacy, University of Kent, Chatham, United Kingdom (Y.A.U.); HUGO Gene Nomen

Pharmacological Reviews
|February 26, 2015
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