Nematode neuropeptides: Localization, isolation and functions

Parasitology Today

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 343-351

  Brownlee, D J A ^a   Fairweather, I ^a   Holden Dye, L ^b   Walker, R J ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE LIKE PEPTIDE; SEROTONIN;

ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030248029     PISSN: 01694758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-4758(96)10052-1     Document Type: Review

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