Quantifying the venom dose of the spider Cupiennius salei using monoclonal antibodies

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1959-1969

  Malli, Heinz ^a   Imboden, Hans ^a   Kuhn Nentwig, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SPIDER VENOM; TOXIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; INSECT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILK; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PARALYSIS; SPIDER VENOMS; TIME FACTORS;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; ARANEAE; CTENIDAE; CUPIENNIUS SALEI; GRYLLIDAE;

EID: 0032402120     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00120-2     Document Type: Article

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