Isolation and characterization of schistostatin-211-18 from the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria: A truncated analog of schistostatin-2

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 195-199

  Veelaert, Dirk ^a   Devreese, Bart ^b   Broeck, Jozef Vanden ^a   Yu, C G ^c   Schoofs, Liliane ^a   Van Beeumen, Jozef ^b   Tobe, Stephen S ^c   De Loof, Arnold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Physiol and Microbiol U   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

allatostatin; corpora allata; insect endocrinology; juvenile hormone; neuropeptide

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCKROACHES; CORPORA ALLATA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GRASSHOPPERS; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; INSECTA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 0030591861     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(96)00131-0     Document Type: Article

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