Substance K

From Health Encyclopedia

Used for

neurokinin A

Broader Terms

tachykinin

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• Substance K is a member of the tachykinin family isolated from mammalian spinal cord; Nawa et al.
• Substance K is degraded by the striatal isozyme but is not cleaved by the lung isozyme.
• Substance K is localized to a rare population of wide-field amacrine cells.
• In general terms for a system comprising i - chemical substances, the mole fraction of substance k is given by equation (d).
• These findings suggest that SP but not substance K is involved in Noci-induced responses.

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