The cut of the clot(h): Snake venom fibrinogenases as therapeutic agents

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1360-1362

  Gardiner, E E ^a   Andrews, Robert K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCROD; BATROXOBIN; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 11; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13A; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8A; BRADYKININ; CERATASE; CROTALUS ADAMANTEUS SERINE PROTEINASE; DEFIBRIBRASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 1; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 4; HAROBIN; KININOGEN; SNAKE VENOM; THROMBIN; THROMBIN ACTIVATABLE FIBRINOLYSIS INHIBITOR; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SELECTIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; FIBRIN FORMATION; FIBRINOLYSIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SNAKE VENOMS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 47649090828     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2008.03057.x     Document Type: Note

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