Respiratory difficulties in mice treated with lysenin, a protein purified from the coelomic fluid of the earthworm Eisenia foetida

Biomedical Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 181-185

  Ohta, Naoshi ^a   Wake, Kenjiro ^b   Kobayashi, Hideshi ^c  

^a ZENYAKU KOGYO CO LTD   (Japan)

^b Minophagen Pharmaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; LYSENIN; SPHINGOMYELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; EARTHWORM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

ANIMALIA; EISENIA FETIDA; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 3142748860     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.23.181     Document Type: Article

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