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Snake Venoms in Drug Discovery: Valuable Therapeutic Tools for Life Saving

Animal venoms are used as defense mechanisms or to immobilize and digest prey. In fact, venoms are complex mixtures of enzymatic and non-enzymatic components with specific pathophysiological functions. Peptide toxins isolated from animal venoms target mainly ion channels, membrane receptors and comp...

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Autores principales: Mohamed Abd El-Aziz, Tarek, Soares, Antonio Garcia, Stockand, James D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6832721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31557973
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins11100564