calcium chloride (CaCl 2), a granular white chemical with an unpleasant taste. It is used in a concentrated solution of the chloride salt of calcium to replenish calcium in the blood and also has uses in cardiac resuscitation.
Neuropeptides are small protein-like molecules (peptides) used by neurons to communicate with each other. They are neuronal signaling molecules that influence the activity of the brain in specific ways.
There are two major chemical classes of hormones, peptides (proteins) and steroid hormones. Protein based hormones can be divided into three categories: proteins, peptides and amines. Their differences are essential with their size and what they are synthesized from. Peptides are compounds that consist of two or more amino acids; proteins are compounds that consist of 50 or more amino acids; amines are synthesized from the amino acid tyrosine.