Current status of snake venom thrombin-like enzymes

Toxin Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 291-318

  Castro, Helena C ^a   Rodrigues, Carlos Rangel ^b  

^a FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fibrinogen; Snake venom; SVTLE; Thrombin; Thrombin like; TLE; Venobim

Indexed keywords

BILINEOBIN; CONTORTRIXOBIN; CROTALUS ADAMANTEUS SERINE PROTEINASE; ELEGAXOBIN; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOPEPTIDE B; HEPARIN; JERDENOBIN; OKINAXOBIN; OKINAXOBIN I; REAGENT; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM THROMBIN LIKE ENZYME; STENOXOBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOMBIN A;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING TEST; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; HEART INFARCTION; NONHUMAN; SNAKE; STROKE;

CROTALUS ADAMANTEUS;

EID: 33646355734     PISSN: 15569543     EISSN: 15569551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15569540600567321     Document Type: Article

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