“…The syntheses of the protected nonapeptides were carried out in a modified prototype (Iindeberg, 1975;Brunfeldt et al, 1968) of the Schwarz/Mann Peptide Synthesizer (Schwarz/ Mann, Orangeburg, N.Y., USA). The amino acids were obtained from Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Tokyo, Japan, or from Tanabe Seiyaku Co., Osaka, Japan.…”