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octadecapeptides

octadecapeptides is the plural of octadecapeptide.

Meaning of octadecapeptide

Noun

octadecapeptide (plural octadecapeptides)

  1. A polypeptide containing eighteen amino acid moieties
    • Even though it has not been tested yet on specific models of AD, apamin, a stable octadecapeptide isolated from bee Apis mellifera, has been proven an important tool in learning and memory studies as it is considered a blocker of small conductance calcium-activated K + channels in the CNS.2015 August 8, Victoria Monge-Fuentes et al., “Neuroactive compounds obtained from arthropod venoms as new therapeutic platforms for the treatment of neurological disorders”, in The Journal of...

Questions about octadecapeptides

What is octadecapeptides the plural of?
Octadecapeptides is the plural of octadecapeptide.

Words near octadecapeptides in the dictionary

  1. octadecanoid
  2. octadecanoids
  3. octadecanol
  4. octadecanoyl
  5. octadecapeptide
  6. octadecapeptides
  7. octadecatetraenoate
  8. octadecatetraenoates
  9. octadecatetraenoic
  10. octadecatetraenoic acid
  11. octadecatrienoic

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