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6141890

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PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-3-29
pubmed:abstractText
Extracts prepared from the dried skins of approximately one hundred amphibian species from Australia and Papua New Guinea were subjected to biological screening in order to determine the nature and amounts of peptides active on smooth muscle preparations and systemic blood pressure present in these extracts. The most frequently and abundantly occurring peptides were those of the caerulein, bombesin and tachykinin peptide families represented, respectively, by caerulein; litorin, Glu(OMe)2-litorin and Glu(OEt)2-litorin; uperolein and Lys5-Thr6-physalaemin. Bradykinin-like peptides seem to have a rather diffuse distribution, in the species examined, but so far no peptide of this family has been isolated and sequenced. The only angiotensin-like peptide ever found in amphibian skin, crinia angiotensin II, has been isolated from skin extracts of a few species, belonging to the genera Crinia, Geocrinia, Ranidella and Litoria. The array of peptides occurring in amphibians from Australia and Papua New Guinea is destined to increase, because several apparently novel peptides have been identified in skin extracts by bioassay and radioimmunoassay.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0742-8413
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
77
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
99-108
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Active peptides in the skins of one hundred amphibian species from Australia and Papua New Guinea.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't