Three structurally related, highly potent, peptides from the venom of Parabuthus transvaalicus possess divergent biological activity

Toxicon

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 727-733

  Inceoglu, Bora ^a   Lango, Jozsef ^a   Pessah, Isaac N ^a   Hammock, Bruce D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birtoxin; Ikitoxin; Na+ channel; Nomenclature; Scorpion; Toxin

Indexed keywords

ALTITOXIN; BESTOXIN; BIRTOXIN; DORTOXIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOACCUMULATION; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARABUTHUS TRANSVAACALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORPION; SPECIES COMPARISON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY TESTING; WRITHING TEST;

EID: 15944429389     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.01.020     Document Type: Article

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