Polybitoxins: A group of phospholipases A2 from the venom of the neotropical social wasp paulistinha (Polybia paulista)

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 189-199

  De Oliveira, Marcia Regina ^a   Palma, Mario Sergio ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORNETIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; POLYBITOXIN; SEPHADEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; WASP;

ANIMALS; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYSIS; KINETICS; MICE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WASP VENOMS;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; ATRA; INVERTEBRATA; NAJA; NAJA ATRA; NAJA NAJA; POLYBIA; POLYBIA PAULISTA; VESPA BASALIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0031925173     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00053-6     Document Type: Article

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