"Apamin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A highly neurotoxic polypeptide from the venom of the honey bee (Apis mellifera). It consists of 18 amino acids with two disulfide bridges and causes hyperexcitability resulting in convulsions and respiratory paralysis.
| Descriptor ID |
D001030
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.888.065.115.060 D23.946.833.065.115.060
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Apamin" by people in Profiles.
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Increases in endothelial Ca(2+) activate K(Ca) channels and elicit EDHF-type arteriolar dilation via gap junctions. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2002 May; 282(5):H1760-7.
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TEA- and apamin-resistant K(Ca) channels in guinea-pig myenteric neurons: slow AHP channels. J Physiol. 2002 Jan 15; 538(Pt 2):421-33.