Vasorelaxin: A Novel Arterial Smooth Muscle-Relaxing Eicosapeptide from the Skin Secretion of the Chinese Piebald Odorous Frog (Odorrana schmackeri)

Yuxin Wu; Lei Wang; Chen Lin; Yan Lin; Mei Zhou; Liang Chen; Brian Connolly; Yingqi Zhang; Tianbao Chen; Chris Shaw

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055739

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Vasorelaxin: A Novel Arterial Smooth Muscle-Relaxing Eicosapeptide from the Skin Secretion of the Chinese Piebald Odorous Frog (Odorrana schmackeri)

Yuxin Wu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxin Wu, Lei Wang, Chen Lin

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Lei Wang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxin Wu, Lei Wang, Chen Lin

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Chen Lin ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yuxin Wu, Lei Wang, Chen Lin

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Yan Lin,

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Mei Zhou,

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Liang Chen,

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Brian Connolly,

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Yingqi Zhang ,

* E-mail: zhangyingqi08@sina.com (YZ); chris.shaw@qub.ac.uk (CS)

Affiliations Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Tangshan Gongren Hospital, No.27, Wenhua Road, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, China
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Tianbao Chen,

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Chris Shaw

* E-mail: zhangyingqi08@sina.com (YZ); chris.shaw@qub.ac.uk (CS)

Affiliation Natural Drug Discovery Group, School of Pharmacy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Vasorelaxin: A Novel Arterial Smooth Muscle-Relaxing Eicosapeptide from the Skin Secretion of the Chinese Piebald Odorous Frog (Odorrana schmackeri)

Yuxin Wu,
Lei Wang,
Chen Lin,
Yan Lin,
Mei Zhou,
Liang Chen,
Brian Connolly,
Yingqi Zhang,
Tianbao Chen,
Chris Shaw

Published: February 6, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055739

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