Gene regulation and physiological functi
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Seiji Nomura; Tomomi Ito; Eiko Yamamoto; Seiji Sumigama; Akira Iwase; Mayumi Oka
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Human pregnancy serum and placenta have the ability to degrade uterotonic peptide oxytocin (OT). Placental leucine aminopeptidase (P-LAP), which is also called cystine aminopeptidase, is the only membrane aminopeptidase known to functionally degrade OT as oxytocinase (OTase). P-LAP/OTase hydrolyzes