Africanized honey bee (Apis mellifera) venom profiling: Seasonal variation of melittin and phospholipase A2 levels

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-362

  Ferreira Junior, Rui S ^a   Sciani, Juliana M ^b   Marques Porto, Rafael ^b   Junior, Airton Lourenço ^a   Orsi, Ricardo de O ^a   Barraviera, Benedito ^a   Pimenta, Daniel C ^a,b  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Africanized honey bee; Apis mellifera; Melittin; Natural peptides; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

BEE VENOM; MELITTIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HONEYBEE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEE VENOMS; BEES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MELITTEN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; SEASONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 77954143990     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.03.023     Document Type: Article

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