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C-Type Natriuretic Peptides

Defensin-like Proteins

 


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de Plater,G.M., Martin, R.L., Milburn, P.J. 1998. The natriuretic peptide (ovCNP-39) 
     from platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) venom relaxes the isolated rat uterus and 
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de Plater, G.M., Milburn, P.J., Martin, R.L. 2001. Venom from the platypus, 
     Orinthorhynchus anatinus, induces a calcium-dependent current in cultured dorsal 
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Kourie, J.I. 1999. Calcium dependence of C-type natriuretic peptide-formed fast K+ 
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Kourie, J.I. 1999. Synthetic mammalian C-type natriuretic peptide forms large cation 
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Torres, A.M., de Plater, G.M., Doverskog, M., Birinyi-Strachan, L.C., Nicholson, G.M., 
     Gallagher, C.H., and Kuchel, P.W. 2000. Defensin-like peptide-2 from platypus 
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