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Peptide Hormones

"Peptide Hormones" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Hormones synthesized from amino acids. They are distinguished from INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS in that their actions are systemic.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Peptide Hormones" by people in this website by year, and whether "Peptide Hormones" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2003 and 2012
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