Cross-reactivities of polyclonal antibodies against lebetase, fibrinolytic enzyme of levantine viper (Vipera lebetina) venom

Toxicon

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 608-613

  Siigur, Jüri ^a   Tõnismägi, Külli ^a   Tu, Anthony ^b   Siigur, Ene ^a  

^a ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ANTIBODY; PLASMIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SNAKE VENOM; VIPER VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0343267782     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(95)00165-4     Document Type: Article

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