Seven tachykinin-related peptides isolated from the brain of the Madeira cockroach: Evidence for tissue-specific expression of isoforms

Peptides

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-15

  Muren, J E ^a   Nassel D R ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

brain; HPLC; insect nervous system; insect neuropeptide; Leucophaea maderae; myotropic peptides; tachykinins

Indexed keywords

BRAIN EXTRACT; NEUROPEPTIDE; TACHYKININ;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; LOCUST; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCKROACHES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TACHYKININS;

EID: 0030974565     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(96)00243-4     Document Type: Article

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