Characterization of myomodulin-related peptides from the pulmonate snail Helix aspersa

Peptides

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1099-1106

  Greenberg, Michael J ^a   Doble, K E ^a   Lesser, W ^a   Lee, T D ^b   Pennell, N A ^a   Morgan, C G ^a   Price, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CARP; Contractility; HPLC; PMSMLRLamide; pQLSMLRLamide; RIA; SLGMLRLamide

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE PROTEIN; MYOMODULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLE; HELIX ASPERSA; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

ANIMALS; HELIX (SNAILS); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEUROPEPTIDES; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; HELIX ASPERSA;

EID: 0031470980     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(97)00149-6     Document Type: Article

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