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taipoxin

under Elapid Venoms
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More on Elapid Venoms Definition: Venoms from snakes of the family Elapidae, including cobras, kraits, mambas, coral, tiger, and Australian snakes. The venoms contain polypeptide toxins of various kinds, cytolytic, hemolytic, and neurotoxic factors, but fewer enzymes than viper or crotalid venoms. Many of the toxins have been characterized.  /antag permitted but consider also ANTIVENINS; /enzymol permitted; note that BUNGAROTOXINS; COBRA NEUROTOXINS; COBRA VENOMS & other specifics are available; TN 241: common & scientific names of various elapids    Other names Venoms, Elapid; Venom, Elapid; Elapid Venom
SubstanceCAS Registry & nameCategoriesSourceDrugs*
taipoxin
  from Oxyuranus s. scutellatus, an elapid; presynaptically active neurotoxin 		52019-39-3   *Elapid Venoms Phospholipases A
Pharma Action Neuromuscular Blocking Agents 		Br J Pharmacol 61(1):133;1977; Eur J Biochem 94(2):531;1979; Naunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol 299(2):155;1977; Neuroscience 4(6):837;1979; Toxicon 15:571;1977

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