Purification of a lectin from the marine red alga Gracilaria cornea and its effects on the cattle tick Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae)

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6414-6419

  Lima, Maria E P ^a   Carneiro, Maria E ^b   Nascimento, Antônia E ^b   Grangeiro, Thalles B ^a   Holanda, Marjory L ^a   Amorim, Rodrigo C N ^a   Benevides, Norma M B ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^c Depto Bioquim Biol Molec U   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acaricidal activity; Boophilus microplus; Characterization; Gracilaria cornea; Lectin

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; LECTIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GRACILARIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; TICK;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; FEMALE; GRACILARIA; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; IXODIDAE; LECTINS; RABBITS;

ACARI; ALGAE; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS TAURUS; GRACILARIA; GRACILARIA CORNEA; IXODIDAE; RHODOPHYTA; SUIDAE;

EID: 23844485879     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf0509660     Document Type: Article

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