Proteinase inhibitors in the nonvenomous defensive secretion of grasshoppers: Antiproteolytic range and possible signifiance

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 525-529

  Polanowski, Antoni ^a   Blum, Murray S ^b   Whitman, D W ^b   Travis, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungicides; Grasshopper; Hemolymph; Proteinase inhibitors; Romalea guttata; Secretion; Taeniopoda eques

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN G; CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR; LEUKOCYTE ELASTASE; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; ENDOCRINE GLAND; HEMOLYMPH; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPTERA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETION;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; ORTHOPTERA; ROMALEA GUTTATA; TAENIOPODA EQUES;

EID: 0030825175     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(97)00045-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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