Allatostatins from the retrocerebral complex and antennal pulsatile organ of the American cockroach: Structural elucidation aided by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 82, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 81-89

  Predel, Reinhard ^a   Kellner, Roland ^b   Rapus, Jürgen ^a   Gäde, Gerd ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Insect; Leucomyosuppressin; Neurohemal organs; Neuropeptide

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; ENKEPHALINS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; JUVENILE HORMONES; NEUROPEPTIDES; PERIPLANETA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

BLATTARIA; DIPLOPTERA PUNCTATA; INSECTA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0033064761     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(99)00045-2     Document Type: Article

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