Purification and characterization of islet hormones (insulin, glucagon, pancreatic polypeptide and somatostatin) from the Burmese python, Python molurus

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 191-198

  Michael Conlon, J ^a   Secor, Stephen M ^b   Adrian, Thomas E ^a   Mynarcik, Dennis C ^c   Whittaker, Jonathan ^c  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

HPLC; Pancreas; Receptor; Sepentes; Snake; Squamata

Indexed keywords

GLUCAGON; INSULIN; PANCREAS HORMONE; PANCREAS POLYPEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ALLIGATOR; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TURTLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BOIDAE; FEMALE; GLUCAGON; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANCREATIC POLYPEPTIDE; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOMATOSTATIN;

ALLIGATOR; ANAS SP.; ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PYTHON MOLURUS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0342684433     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(97)01030-6     Document Type: Article

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