Structures and biological activities of new wasp venom peptides isolated from the black-bellied hornet (Vespa basalis) venom

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 609-617

  Ho, Chewn Lang ^a   Chen, Wan Chen ^a   Lin, Yah Luen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WASP VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTES; GUINEA PIGS; HEMOLYSIS; MICE; NEUTROPHILS; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TAIWAN; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

HEXAPODA; VESPA BASALIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0032496244     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00080-9     Document Type: Article

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