Three valuable peptides from bee and wasp venoms for therapeutic and biotechnological use: Melittin, apamin and mastoparan

Toxins

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1126-1150

  Moreno, Miguel ^a   Giralt, Ernest ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apamin; Bee; Mastoparan; Melittin; Venom; Wasp

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; ANOPLIN; APAMIN; BEE VENOM; BRADYKININ; CELL PENETRATING PEPTIDE; CRABROLIN; DECORALIN; EUMENTIN; HYALURONIDASE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MAST CELL DEGRANULATING PEPTIDE; MASTOPARAN; MELECTIN; MELITTIN; MITOPARAN; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTONECTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM; PEPTIDE;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIMALARIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; APIS MELLIFERA; APITHERAPY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LEARNING DISORDER; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; ANIMAL; HUMAN;

APOIDEA;

ANIMALS; APAMIN; HUMANS; MELITTEN; PEPTIDES; WASP VENOMS;

EID: 84928948405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins7041126     Document Type: Review

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