Boophilus microplus: Its saliva contains microphilin, a small thrombin inhibitor

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-46

  Ciprandi, Alessandra ^a   de Oliveira, Simone Kobe ^a   Masuda, Aoi ^a   Horn, Fabiana ^a   Termignoni, Carlos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antithrombin; Boophilus; Thrombin inhibitor; Tick anticoagulant; Tick saliva

Indexed keywords

MICROPHILIN; PROTEINASE K; SEPHAROSE; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; DRUG PURIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FEMALE; GEL FILTRATION; HYDROLYSIS; IC 50; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; TEMPERATURE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; ULTRAFILTRATION;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG STABILITY; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HEAT; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PROTEINS; SALIVA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; THROMBIN; ULTRAFILTRATION;

BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS;

EID: 33746930562     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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