Identification of a tachykinin-related peptide with orexigenic properties in the German cockroach

Peptides

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 386-392

  Pascual, Núria ^a   Maestro, José L ^a   Chiva, Cristina ^b   Andreu, David ^b   Bellés, Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blattella germanica; Food consumption; Myotropic peptide; Tachykinin

Indexed keywords

APPETITE STIMULANT; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN LEMTRP 1; TACHYKININ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; COCKROACH; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; STARVATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCKROACHES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INSECT PROTEINS; PEPTIDES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TACHYKININS;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 39649087341     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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