Purification and acute toxicity of a lectin extracted from tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius)

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-27

  Reynoso Camacho, R ^a   Gonzalez De Mejia E ^a,b   Loarca Pina G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE QUERÉTARO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Lectins; Phaseolus acutifolius; Tepary beans

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; LECTIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAN; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; LD 50; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PHASEOLUS ACUTIFOLIUS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; THYMUS; TOXICITY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY WEIGHT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEMAGGLUTINATION TESTS; INTESTINE, SMALL; KIDNEY; LETHAL DOSE 50; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ORGAN SIZE; PHASEOLUS; PLANT LECTINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SEX FACTORS; SPLEEN; THYMUS GLAND;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PHASEOLUS ACUTIFOLIUS;

EID: 0037210386     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-6915(02)00215-6     Document Type: Article

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