Isolation and structural elucidation of eight kinins from the retrocerebral complex of the American cockroach, Periplaneta americana

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 199-205

  Predel, Reinhard ^a,c   Kellner, Roland ^b   Rapus, Juergen ^c   Penzlin, Heinz ^c   Gáde, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Insect; Myotropin; Neurohemal organs; Neuropeptide; Visceral muscle

Indexed keywords

KININ DERIVATIVE; NEUROHORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COCKROACH; HORMONE DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; KININS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROPEPTIDES; PERIPLANETA;

BLATTARIA; INSECTA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0030874130     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(97)01029-X     Document Type: Article

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