C-peptide

English

Noun

C-peptide (plural C-peptides)

  1. (biochemistry) 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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