Kyotorphin synthetase activity in rat adrenal glands and spinal cord

Peptides

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 407-411

  Kawabata, Atsufumi ^a   Muguruma, Hitomi ^a   Tanaka, Maki ^a   Takagi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenal glands; Antinociceptive dipeptide; Kyotorphin; Kyotorphin synthetase; L Arginine; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

2 METHYLORNITHINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; KYOTORPHIN; MAGNESIUM; METENKEPHALIN; N(G) NITROARGININE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; ORNITHINE; SYNTHETASE; TYROSINE;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029980128     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0196-9781(96)00026-5     Document Type: Article

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