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Metamorphoses of a Conotoxin

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Natural Toxins 2

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 391))

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Abstract

Venom is a mixture of various substances produced in a specific gland in the body of the venomous animal and introduced through a piercing injecting mechanism into the body of another animal in order to paralyze it or to kill it. In nature, venoms are employed by slow predatory animals in order to capture through an immediate paralysis their relatively fast prey organisms [1]. In the laboratory, however, venoms are employed as sources for the search of various pharmacological and mainly neurotoxic substances.

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    Eliahu Zlotkin, Dalia Gordon, Iris Napchi-Shichor & Michael Fainzilber

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Zlotkin, E., Gordon, D., Napchi-Shichor, I., Fainzilber, M. (1996). Metamorphoses of a Conotoxin. In: Singh, B.R., Tu, A.T. (eds) Natural Toxins 2. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 391. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0361-9_33

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