Purification, structure and activity of three insect toxins from Buthus occitanus tunetanus venom

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 365-382

  Borchani, Lamia ^a   Stankiewicz, Maria ^c   Kopeyan, Charles ^b   Mansuelle, Pascal ^b   Kharrat, Riadh ^a   Cestèle, Sandrine ^b   Karoui, Habib ^a   Pelhate, Marcel ^c   Ayeb, Mohamed El ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; INSECT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME; TOXICITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PERIPLANETA; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; BUTHUS; BUTHUS OCCITANUS TUNETANUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEIURUS; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS QUINQUESTRIATUS; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0031106834     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00173-0     Document Type: Article

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