High performance liquid chromatography purification and amino acid sequence of toxins from the muscarinic fraction of Tityus discrepans scorpion venom

Toxicon

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 591-598

  D'Suze, G ^a   Corona, F ^b   Possani, L D ^b   Sevcik, C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM; TOXIN;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; DEPOLARIZATION; FROG; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LETHALITY; MINIATURE ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0029920030     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(95)00156-5     Document Type: Article

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