Study of biological activity of Lys-Glu-Asp-Trp-NH2 endogenous tetrapeptide
Khavinson VKh, Gapparov MM, Sharanova NE, Vasilyev AV, Ryzhak GA (2010). Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine.
Summary
Evaluated the biological effect of the tetrapeptide Lys-Glu-Asp-Trp-NH2 (pancragen) in rats during normal development and in streptozotocin-induced diabetes, which the authors use as a model of accelerated ageing, by measuring a set of metabolic parameters related to apoptosis. The abstract is a single sentence and reports no numerical results; the full text was not read.