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peptide hormones (pepËÂ·tÄ«d hÅrËÂ·mÅnz), n.pl water-soluble hormones comprised of a few amino acids that introduce a series of chemical reactions to change the cell's metabolism. Examples include hormones of the pituitary gland and parathyroid glands.
3AA-11. DEFINITION OF PEPTIDES. A peptide is any compound produced by amide formation between a carboxyl group of one amino acid and an amino group of another. The amide bonds in peptides may be called peptide bonds.he residue in a peptide that has an amino group that is free, or at least not acylated by another amino-acid residue (it may, for example, be acetylated or formylated), is called N-terminal; it is at the N-terminus.