Snake venomics and toxicological profiling of the arboreal pitviper Bothriechis supraciliaris from Costa Rica

Toxicon

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 592-599

  Lomonte, Bruno ^a   Tsai, Wan Chih ^a   Bonilla, Fabián ^a   Solórzano, Alejandro ^b   Solano, Gabriela ^a   Angulo, Yamileth ^a   Gutiérrez, José María ^a   Calvete, Juan J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arboreal; Bothriechis supraciliaris; Mass spectrometry; Proteomics; Snake venom; Venomics; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEOME; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOTHRIECHIS SUPRACILIARIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POISONOUS SNAKE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COSTA RICA; CROTALID VENOMS; FEMALE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; VIPERIDAE;

ATHERIS; BOTHRIECHIS; BOTHRIECHIS LATERALIS; BOTHRIECHIS NIGROVIRIDIS; BOTHRIECHIS SCHLEGELII; ECHIS; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 84857279275     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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