Beta lipotropin

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pituitary hormone

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• beta-Lipotropin is the major opioid-like peptide of human pituitary and rat pars distalis: lack of significant beta-endorphin.
• Beta-lipotropin is the major component of the plasma opioid response to surgical stress in humans.
• Beta-lipotropin is a single-chain peptide of about 90 residues that contains the sequences of endorphins and metenkephalin, and may be a precursor of beta-melanotropin and beta-endorphin.
• beta-Lipotropin is the major opioid-like peptide of human pituitary and rat pars distalis: lack of significant beta-endorphin.
• beta-Lipotropin is subsequently cleaved to form beta-endorphin.

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