Characterization of Five Neurotoxins Isolated from the Venoms of Two Elapidae Snakes Naja haje and Naja nigricollis
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Proteomic characterization of two snake venoms: Naja naja atra and Agkistrodon halys.
Snake venom is a complex mixture of proteins and peptides, and a number of studies have described the biological properties of several venomous proteins. Nevertheless, a complete proteomic profile of venom from any of the many species of snake is not available. Proteomics now makes it possible to globally identify proteins from a complex mixture. To assess the venom proteomic profiles from Naja...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Biochemistry
سال: 1973
ISSN: 0014-2956,1432-1033
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1973.tb02831.x