Purification and characterization of nerve growth factors (NGFs) from the snake venoms

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 391, Issue , 1996, Pages 403-416

  Hayashi, Kyozo ^a   Inoue, Seiji ^b   Ikeda, Kiyoshi ^b  

^a GIFU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBROTOXIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SNAKE VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DRUG ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE; TOXICOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029991721     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0361-9_34     Document Type: Article

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