Tachykinins and other biologically active peptides from the skin of the Costa Rican Phyllomedusid frog Agalychnis callidryas

Peptides

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 367-372

  Mignogna, Giuseppina ^d   Severini, Cinzia ^a   Erspamer, Giuliana Falconieri ^a   Siciliano, Rosa ^b   Kreil, Günther ^c   Barra, Donatella ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Ist di Sci dell'A   (Italy)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Amphibian skin; Bioactive peptides; Phyllomedusinae; Tachykinins

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ DERIVATIVE; CERULETIDE; DERMORPHIN; DERMORPHIN DERIVATIVE; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; NEUROKININ 3 RECEPTOR; OPIATE PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; SAUVAGINE; TACHYKININ DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FROG; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RECEPTOR AFFINITY;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRADYKININ; CAERULEIN; COSTA RICA; KASSININ; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OPIOID PEPTIDES; SKIN; TACHYKININS;

AGALYCHNIS CALLIDRYAS; AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; PHYLLOMEDUSA; PHYLLOMEDUSINAE;

EID: 0030970381     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(96)00342-7     Document Type: Article

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