The multiplicity of cardiotoxins from Naja naja atra (Taiwan cobra) venom

Toxicon

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1065-1076

  Chang, Long Sen ^a   Huang, Hsien Bin ^b   Lin, Shinne Ren ^c  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; CARDIOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; SNAKE VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURIFICATION; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; COBRA; COBRA VENOMS; EXONS; HEART DISEASES; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034256920     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(99)00218-4     Document Type: Article

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