Identification and cloning of snake venom vascular endothelial growth factor (svVEGF) from Bothrops erythromelas pitviper

Toxicon

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 571-575

  Junqueira De Azevedo, Inácio De L M ^a,b   Silva, Márcia B Da ^c   Chudzinski Tavassi, Ana Marisa ^a   Ho, Paulo L ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bothrops erythromelas; Cloning; Snake venom; VEGF

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VASCULOTROPIN; VENOM; VIPER VENOM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; BOTHROPS ERYTHROMELAS; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOASSAY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; TOXICOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BOTHROPS; BRAZIL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SNAKE VENOMS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

BOTHROPS; BOTHROPS ERYTHROMELAS; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 4644293665     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.07.013     Document Type: Article

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