Rowan, E.G. and Harvey, A.L. and Menez, A. (1991) Neuromuscular effects of nigexine, a basic phospholipase-a2 from naja-nigricollis venom. Toxicon, 29 (3). pp. 371-374. ISSN 0041-0101
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Nigexine is a basic phospholipase A2 from the venom of the spitting cobra Naja nigricollis. In addition to its anticoagulant and cytolytic properties, nigexine also affects neuromuscular transmission in vitro. On chick biventer cervicis preparations, 1.5 μM nigexine caused a slowly developing block of responses to nerve stimulation, and a progressive loss of postjunctional sensitivity. Nigexine was at least 10 times less potent than notexin. On frog cutaneous pectoris preparations, nigexine caused a transient facilitation of evoked acetylcholine release, followed by a block. Spontaneous release was not abolished, and nigexine induced the release of abnormally large packets of transmitter. Nigexine also caused contracture of muscle fibres, accompanied by depolarization and degeneration. Nigexine appears to be able to cause prejunctional blockade and direct muscle damage to isolated skeletal muscle preparations.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 17737 |
| Keywords: | nigexine, phospholipase A2, Naja nigricollis, neuromuscular effects, Pharmacy and materia medica, Physiology |
| Subjects: | Medicine > Pharmacy and materia medica Science > Physiology |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 11 May 2010 19:34 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 11:08 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/17737 |
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