C-peptide (English, noun)
expansion: C-peptide (plural C-peptides)
Senses:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: C-peptides
tags: plural