C-peptides

A form of C-peptide — The inactive polypeptide excised from proinsulin during its conversion to insulin, containing 31 amino acid residues and secreted in equimolar amounts to insulin from beta cells.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of C-peptide
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