An inhibitor of thrombin-stimulated blood platelet aggregation from the salivary glands of the hard tick Amblyomma variegatum (Acari: Ixodidae)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 28, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 97-105

  Kazimírová, Mária ^a   Jančinová, Viera ^b   Petríková, Margita ^b   Takáč, Peter ^a   Labuda, Milan ^a   Nosál, Radomír ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Amblyomma variegatum ticks; Platelet aggregation; Thrombin inhibitor

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBIN; HIRUDIN DERIVATIVE; THROMBIN;

TICK;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SALIVARY GLAND; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TICK;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTITHROMBINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; FEMALE; HIRUDINS; HUMANS; IXODIDAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION; SALIVARY GLANDS; THROMBIN;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA VARIEGATUM; ANIMALIA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 0141680840     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025398100044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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