Resistance of the Eegyptian mongoose to sarafotoxins

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1251-1261

  Bdolah, Avner ^a   Kochva, Elazar ^b   Ovadia, Michael ^a   Kinamon, Sara ^a   Wollberg, Zvi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1; NEUROTOXIN; SARAFOTOXIN; SNAKE VENOM; SARAFOTOXINS S6; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT; VIPER VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARNIVORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIN-1; HERPESTIDAE; MALE; PROTEIN BINDING; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VIPER VENOMS;

EID: 0030610956     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00019-6     Document Type: Article

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