Leech egg-laying-like hormone: Structure, neuronal distribution and phylogeny

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 211-221

  Salzet, Michel ^a   Verger Bocquet, Martine ^a   Vandenbulcke, Franck ^a   Van Minnen, Jan ^b  

^a Centre de Biologie Cellulaire   (France)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Egg laying hormone; Leech; Neuropeptide; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE A; EGG LAYING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; LEECH; LIFE CYCLE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INVERTEBRATE HORMONES; LEECHES; LYMNAEA; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; OVIPOSITION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; APLYSIA CALIFORNICA; APLYSIA PARVULA; HIRUDINIDA; INVERTEBRATA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MOLLUSCA; THEROMYZON TESSULATUM;

EID: 0030658841     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00145-9     Document Type: Article

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