Function-driven discovery of neuropeptides with mass spectrometry-based tools

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 681-694

  Schmerberg, Claire M ^a   Li, Lingjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Function; Identification; Imaging mass spectrometry; Mass spectrometry; Microdialysis; Neuropeptides; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

DYNORPHIN; ENKEPHALIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; IMAGING MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROPEPTIDES;

EID: 84877984031     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/0929866511320060007     Document Type: Article

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