Intersexual variations in Northern (Missulena pruinosa) and Eastern (M. bradleyi) mouse spider venom

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1167-1177

  Herzig, Volker ^a   Khalife, Ali A ^b   Chong, Youmie ^b   Isbister, Geoffrey K ^c   Currie, Bart J ^c   Churchill, Tracey B ^d   Horner, Suzanne ^d   Escoubas, Pierre ^e   Nicholson, Graham M ^b   Hodgson, Wayne C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Actinopodidae; Intersexual variations; Missulena bradleyi; Missulena pruinosa; Mouse spider; Venom

Indexed keywords

SPIDER VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FASCICULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; AUSTRALIA; CHICKENS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GRYLLIDAE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROTOXINS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS; TOXICITY TESTS;

ACHETA DOMESTICUS; ACTINOPODIDAE; ARANEAE; DIPLURIDAE; MISSULENA; MISSULENA BRADLEYI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 43649093596     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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