Protein phosphorylation in snail cardiocytes stimulated with molluscan peptide SCPb

G Reich1, K E Doble, M J Greenberg

  • 1Whitney Laboratory, University of Florida, St. Augustine 32086, USA. gere@aug.com

Peptides
|January 1, 1997
PubMed

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