Pharmacology of FMRFamide-related peptides in helminths

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 897, Issue , 1999, Pages 212-227

  Geary, Timothy G ^a   Marks, Nikki J ^b   Maule, Aaron G ^b   Bowman, Jerry W ^a   Alexander Bowman, Susan J ^a   Day, Tim A ^c   Larsen, Martha J ^a   Kubiak, Teresa M ^a   Davis, John P ^a   Thompson, David P ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HELMINTH; NEMATODE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALIA; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; PLATYHELMINTHES; VERMES;

EID: 0033386901     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07893.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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