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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Oligopeptides > Chalones

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Chalones  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • do not confuse with CHALCONES

Scope note

  • Peptides that inhibit mitosis (ANTIMITOTICS). During the 1960's the term referred to crude extracts that inhibited cell proliferation; the activity was later attributed to PYROGLUTAMATE type oligopeptides.

History note

  • 2006, 1969-1992; use GROWTH INHIBITORS 1993-2005

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D050150

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