Production of Human Antibody Fragments Binding to Melittin and Phospholipase A2 in Africanised Bee Venom: Minimising Venom Toxicity

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 290-297

  Funayama, Jaqueline C ^a   Pucca, Manuela B ^b   Roncolato, Eduardo C ^b   Bertolini, Thaís B ^b   Campos, Lucas B ^b   Barbosa, José E ^b  

^a Federal Institute of Education Science and Technology of the South of Minas   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE VENOM; MELITTIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SINGLE CHAIN FRAGMENT VARIABLE ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; CYTOPLASM; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LD 50; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIVENINS; BEE VENOMS; BEES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; MELITTEN; MICE; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; SINGLE-CHAIN ANTIBODIES; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA;

EID: 84857373689     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2011.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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