Action of babycurus-toxin 1 from the east African scorpion Babycurus centrurimorphus on the isolated cockroach giant axon

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1069-1080

  Khalifa, Rym Ben ^a   Stankiewicz, Maria ^b   Pelhate, Marcel ^a   Serrano Hernandez, Sandra E ^c   Possani, Lourival D ^c   Hinkel, Harald ^d   Mebs, Dietrich ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BABYCURUS TOXIN 1; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; DEPOLARIZATION; GIANT AXON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SODIUM CURRENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIPLANETA; SCORPION VENOMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHANNELS;

ANIMALIA; BABYCURUS; BABYCURUS CENTRURIMORPHUS; BLATTARIA; MAMMALIA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0030790527     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00221-8     Document Type: Article

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