Earthworms: Sources of antimicrobial and anticancer molecules

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 546, Issue , 2004, Pages 359-389

  Cooper, Edwin L ^a   Ru, Binggen ^b   Weng, Ning ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BENZOYLARGININE ETHYL ESTER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CECROPIN; COELOMIC CYTOLYTIC FACOTR; COLLECTIN; EISENIAPHORE; FETIDIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GLYCOPROTEIN; LECTIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE BINDING PROTEIN; LUMBRICIN 1; LUMBROKINASE; LYSENIN; LYSINE; MANNOSE BINDING PROTEIN; N ACETYLTYROSINE ETHYL ESTER; PLASMIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; PROTEIN G 90; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; STREPTOKINASE; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UROKINASE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BLOOD DISEASE; CANCER CELL; CANCER INHIBITION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHINESE HERB; CHINESE MEDICINE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; EARTHWORM; EISENIA FOETIDA; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FIBRIN CLOT; FIBRINOLYSIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOUTHEAST ASIA; UNITED STATES;

EISENIA FETIDA; LUMBRICUS RUBELLUS; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 11844252112     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-4820-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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