Toxins and genes isolated from scorpions of the genus Tityus

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 821-835

  Becerril, Baltazar ^a   Marangoni, Sergio ^b   Possani, Lourival D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN; PEPTIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; TITYUS TOXIN;

GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORPION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHANNELS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

SCORPIONES; TITYUS; TITYUS BAHIENSIS; TITYUS DISCREPANS; TITYUS SERRULATUS; TITYUS STIGMURUS;

EID: 0031172513     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00198-5     Document Type: Review

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