C-reactive protein in the hemolymph of Achatina fulica: Interrelationship with sex steroids and metallothionein

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 485-495

  Bose, Rakhi ^a   Bhattacharya, Shelley ^a  

^a VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Achatina C reactive protein; CRP; Hemolymph; Metallothionein; Mollusca; Platelet aggregation; Polycation binding; Steroid

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; MERCURY; METALLOTHIONEIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMOLYMPH; HERMAPHRODITISM; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SNAIL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

ACHATINA FULICA;

EID: 0034037374     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(00)00176-8     Document Type: Article

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