Partial purification of box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) nematocyst venom isolated at the beachside

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1075-1085

  Bloom, David A ^a,b   Burnett, Joseph W ^a,b   Alderslade, Philip ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Mus and Art Gallery of the N Terr ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VENOM;

ARTICLE; JELLYFISH; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; THERMOSTABILITY; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORTHERN TERRITORY; SCYPHOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONEX FLECKERI; CUBOZOA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031841695     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00096-8     Document Type: Article

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