Isolation and structural elucidation of two pyrokinins from the retrocerebral complex of the American cockroach

Peptides

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 473-478

  Predel, Reinhard ^a,d   Kellner, Roland ^b   Kaufmann, Raimund ^c   Penzlin, Heinz ^d   Gäde, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Insect; Myotropin; Neurohemal organs; Neuropeptide; Periplaneta americana; Pyrokinins; Viscelar muscle

Indexed keywords

NEUROHORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COCKROACH; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PERIPLANETA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; INSECTA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0030973297     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(97)00067-3     Document Type: Article

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