Toxins (Mar 2018)

Toxins in Drug Discovery and Pharmacology

  • Steve Peigneur,
  • Jan Tytgat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins10030126
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 3
p. 126

Abstract

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Venoms from marine and terrestrial animals (cone snails, scorpions, spiders, snakes, centipedes, cnidarian, etc.) can be seen as an untapped cocktail of biologically active compounds, being increasingly recognized as a new emerging source of peptide-based therapeutics.

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