"Venom" of the slow loris: Sequence similarity of prosimian skin gland protein and Fel d 1 cat allergen

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 60-62

  Krane, Sonja ^a   Itagaki, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakanishi, Koji ^a   Weldon, Paul J ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; PROTEIN; VENOM;

POISONING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BITE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; IMMUNOGENICITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROSIMIAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN GLAND;

ANIMALIA; FELIS; FELIS CATUS; LORIS; NYCTICEBUS; NYCTICEBUS COUCANG; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0037291732     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-002-0394-z     Document Type: Article

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