Lesser W, Falconer S W, Cottrell G A
University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
Peptides. 1997;18(6):909-11. doi: 10.1016/s0196-9781(97)00010-7.
The endogenous neuropeptides FMRFamide and FLRFamide (tetrapeptides) reversibly reduced a voltage-activated calcium current in the C1 neuron of Helix aspersa by an average of 20%. Two structurally related heptapeptides, pQDPFLRFamide and pQDPFLRIamide, both derived from another precursor protein in this species, did not reduce the current at all.