Isolation and characterization of eight myoinhibiting peptides from the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria: New members of the cockroach allatostatin family

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-190

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allatostatin; Corpora allata; Juvenile hormone; Maldi TOF; Myotropin; Neuropeptide; Oviduct; Post source decay

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; HORMONE ANTAGONIST; JUVENILE HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COCKROACH; CORPUS ALLATUM; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GRASSHOPPER; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCKROACHES; CORPORA ALLATA; GRASSHOPPERS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; JUVENILE HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030592262     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(96)03889-0     Document Type: Article

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