Electrophoretic characterisation of the venom samples obtained from various Anatolian snakes (Serpentes: Colubridae, Viperidae, Elapidae)

North-Western Journal of Zoology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 16-28

  Arikan, Hüseyin ^a   Göçmen, Bayram ^a   Kumlutaş, Yusuf ^b   Alpagut Keskin, Nurşen ^a   Ilgaz, Çetin ^b   Yildiz, Mehmet Zülfü ^a,c  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Colubrid; Densitometry; Polyacrylamide gel disc electrophoresis; Viperid and elapid snake venoms

Indexed keywords

COLUBRIDAE; ELAPIDAE; MACROVIPERA; MACROVIPERA LEBETINA; MALPOLON MONSPESSULANUS; SERPENTES; VIPERA; VIPERA AMMODYTES; VIPERA BARANI; VIPERA KAZNAKOVI; VIPERIDAE; WALTERINNESIA AEGYPTIA; XANTHINA;

EID: 63849239321     PISSN: 15849074     EISSN: 18435629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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