Atrial natriuretic-like peptide and its prohormone within Metasequoia

Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 221, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 188-192

  Yang, Qun ^a   Gower Jr , William R ^b   Li, Chunxiang ^a   Chen, Peiji ^a   Vesely, David L ^b,c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; HORMONE PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CELL VOLUME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLIC REGULATION; OSMOSIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PLANT LEAF; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SWEATING;

ALBIA; ANIMALIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; METASEQUOIA; METASEQUOIA GLYPTOSTROBOIDES;

EID: 0033053238     PISSN: 00379727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1373.1999.d01-75.x     Document Type: Article

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