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IPR024276

Crustacean cardioactive peptide

InterPro entry
Short nameCCAP

Description

Crustacean cardioactive peptide (CCAP), also known as cardioacceleratory peptide 2a, exerts a reversible and dose-dependent cardio-stimulatory effect on the semi-isolated heart of experimental beetles. CCAP also increases free hemolymph sugar concentration in young larvae and adults of the meal-worm beetle
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References

1.Pleiotropic effects of the neuropeptides CCAP and myosuppressin in the beetle, Tenebrio molitor L. Wasielewski O, Skonieczna M. J. Comp. Physiol. B, Biochem. Syst. Environ. Physiol. 178, 877-85, (2008). View articlePMID: 18521612

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