The isolation and purification of two peptides from the venom of Buthus martensii Karsch

Toxicon

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1817-1832

  Chen, Ziyi ^a   Reddy, Giridher ^b   Hahin, Richard ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; NEUROTOXIN; PEPTIDE; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; FROG; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; RAT; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDES; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANURA; BUTHUS; MESOBUTHUS MARTENSII; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0034594361     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(00)00110-0     Document Type: Article

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