Marine snail venoms: use and trends in receptor and channel neuropharmacology

Current Opinion in Pharmacology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 594-601

  Favreau, Philippe ^a   Stöcklin, Reto ^a  

^a ATHERIS LABORATORIES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CONOTOXIN; ALPHAD CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; ALPHAJ CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; ALPHAS CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; CONANTOKIN DERIVATIVE; CONOPEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; CONOPEPTIDE Y; CONOPRESSIN DERIVATIVE; CONTRYPHAN DERIVATIVE; CONTULAKIN DERIVATIVE; DELTA CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; IOTA CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; KAPPA CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; KAPPAA CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; KAPPAI CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; KAPPAJ CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; KAPPAM CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; MU CONOTOXIN; MU CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; MUO CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; OMEGA CONOTOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RHO CONOPEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; SNAIL VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; T1 CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHRONIC PAIN; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG SYNTHESIS; DRUG TARGETING; MARINE SNAIL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG DISCOVERY; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; LIGANDS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLLUSK VENOMS; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 70349414436     PISSN: 14714892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coph.2009.05.006     Document Type: Review

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