Non-conventional toxins from Elapid venoms

Toxicon

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 397-407

  Nirthanan, S ^a   Gopalakrishnakone, P ^a   Gwee, M C E ^a   Khoo, H E ^a   Kini, R M ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Elapidae; Muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Neuronal 7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Non conventional toxin; Three finger toxin; Weak toxin

Indexed keywords

BUCANDIN; CANDOXIN; DISULFIDE; GAMMA BUNGAROTOXIN; MONOMER; NAJA MELANOLEUCA TOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NNA2 TOXIN; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNTX 5 TOXIN; WTX TOXIN;

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING; LD 50; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; REVIEW; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ELAPIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 0037376671     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(02)00388-4     Document Type: Review

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