Structure and experimental uses of arthropod venom proteins

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 391, Issue , 1996, Pages 379-386

  Jones, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD VENOM; KININ; SCORPION VENOM; TETRODOTOXIN;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXICOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS; WASP;

EID: 0029890053     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0361-9_32     Document Type: Article

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