Blockade of neuromuscular transmission of huwentoxin-I, purified from the venom of the Chinese bird spider Selenocosmia huwena

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-45

  Zhou, Pei Ai ^a   Xie, Xian Jin ^a   Li, Man ^a   Yang, Dong Mei ^a   Xie, Zuo Ping ^b   Zong, Xiang ^c   Liang, Song Ping ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NEUROTOXIN; SPIDER VENOM; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FROG; MOUSE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; DIAPHRAGM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; NEUROTOXINS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHRENIC NERVE; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SPIDER VENOMS; TUBOCURARINE; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031015813     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00072-4     Document Type: Article

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