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Purity and Stability of Synthetic Peptides such as Angiotensins and Kinins
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Purity and Stability of Synthetic Peptides such as Angiotensins and Kinins

  • J. R. VANE1 

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Now that synthetic biologically active peptides are becoming readily available, some biologists are using them without realizing that they are neither as stable nor as pure as sodium chloride.

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PN

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VANE, J. Purity and Stability of Synthetic Peptides such as Angiotensins and Kinins. Nature 230, 382 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/230382a0

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