Mojave toxin in venom of Crotalus helleri (Southern Pacific Rattlesnake): Molecular and geographic characterization

Toxicon

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 781-791

  French, Wendy J ^a   Hayes, William K ^b   Bush, Sean P ^c   Cardwell, Michael D ^a   Bader, Julia O ^a   Rael, Eppie D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crotalus helleri; Crotalus scutulatus; DNA sequence; Metalloproteinases; Mojave toxin

Indexed keywords

MOJAVE TOXIN; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HYBRIDIZATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALIFORNIA; CASEINS; CHROMOGENIC COMPOUNDS; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; DNA PRIMERS; FIBRIN; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CROTALUS; CROTALUS SCUTULATUS; CROTALUS SCUTULATUS SCUTULATUS; CROTALUS VIRIDIS HELLERI; SERPENTES;

EID: 6944243755     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.08.008     Document Type: Article

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