Haemotoxic snake venoms: their functional activity, impact on snakebite victims and pharmaceutical promise.

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Published in Br J Haematol on February 24, 2017

Authors

Julien Slagboom1,2, Jeroen Kool2, Robert A Harrison1, Nicholas R Casewell1

Author Affiliations

1: Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit, Parasitology Department, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.
2: Division of BioAnalytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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