Physiological effects of platyhelminth RFamide peptides on muscle-strip preparations of Fasciola hepatica (Trematoda: Digenea)

Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 393-401

  Marks, N J ^a,b   Johnson, S ^a   Maule, A G ^b   Halton, D W ^b   Shaw, C ^b   Geary, T G ^a   Moore, S ^c   Thompson, D P ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c Penninsula Labotatories Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fasciola hepatica; FMRFamide related peptides; GNFFRFamide; GYIRFamide; muscle; neuropeptide F; platyhelminth; RYIRFamide; trematode; YIRFamide

Indexed keywords

ARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; HEPATICA; MONIEZIA EXPANSA; PARALICHTHYS DENTATUS; PLATYHELMINTHES; TREMATODA;

EID: 0029780488     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000066531     Document Type: Article

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