English Explanatory Dictionary

C-peptide

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

C-peptide C-peptides
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