The neutralizing effect of a polyclonal antibody raised against the N-terminal eighteen-aminoacid residues of birtoxin towards the whole venom of Parabuthus transvaalicus

Toxicon

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 144-149

  Inceoglu, Bora ^a   Lango, Jozsef ^a   Rabinovich, Alina ^a   Whetstone, Paul ^a   Hammock, Bruce D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Birtoxin; Neutralization; Parabuthus; Scorpion; Toxin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIRTOXIN; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM ANTISERUM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVENOMATION; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; IMMUNE SERA; MICE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

ANIMALIA; PARABUTHUS; PARABUTHUS TRANSVAALICUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 31344477306     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.08.018     Document Type: Article

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