Transcriptomic basis for an antiserum against Micrurus corallinus (coral snake) venom

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Leão, Luciana I ^a,b   Ho, Paulo L ^a   Junqueira de Azevedo, Inacio de L M ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID OXIDASE; DNA VACCINE; LECTIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; THREE FINGER TOXIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY 1; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY 2; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY 5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIGEN; ANTISERUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ISOPROTEIN; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA IMMUNIZATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; MICRURUS CORALLINUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SPLICING; SNAKE; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; ELAPIDAE; MICRURUS; MICRURUS CORALLINUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ANTIVENINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VACCINES, DNA;

EID: 63449099909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-112     Document Type: Article

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