Exploring new molecules and activities from Lonomia obliqua caterpillars

Pathophysiology of Haemostasis and Thrombosis

Volumn 34, Issue 4-5, 2006, Pages 228-233

  Chudzinski Tavassi, Ana Marisa ^a   Alvarez Flores, Miryam Paola ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Expressed sequence tag; Lonomia obliqua; Procoagulant proteins; Two dimensional map

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT VENOM; LOPAP PROTEIN; PROCOAGULANT; PROTEINASE; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FIBRINOLYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; INSECT; LONOMIA OBLIQUA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 33646822992     PISSN: 14248832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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