Octadecapeptide

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From octadeca- + peptide.

Related phrases

amino acid

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