Animal, Plant, and Microbial Toxins: Volume 1--Biochemistry (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

I. Biochemistry (Animals).- Biosynthesis of Erabutoxins in the Sea Snake, Laticauda semifasciata.- Chemical and Pharmacological Characterization of Toxic Polypeptides from Four Elapidae Venoms.- Toxic Proteins in Cobra Venom Specifically Active on Arthropods.- Some Biological Properties of Two Tritiated Snake Neurotoxins.- Cationic Groups and Biological Activity of Cobrotoxin.- Cytocidal Activity of Cytotoxin from Indian Cobra Venom and Its Derivatives Against Experimental Tumors.- A Protein from Scorpion Venom Toxic to Crustaceans.- Enzymatic Radioiodination of Animal Toxins to Very High Specific Radioactivity.- Structure-Function Relationships of Scorpion Neurotoxins.- Fractionation of Sakishima-habu (Trimeresurus elegans) Venom and Lethal, Hemorrhagic and Edema-Forming Activities of the Fractions.- Some Physical and Biochemical Characteristics of HF2, One of the Hemorrhagic Factors in the Venom of Bothrops jararaca.- An Approach to the Physiological Mechanisms Involved in Hemorrhage: Snake Venom Hemorrhagic Principles as a Useful Analytical Tool.- Factors in the Blood Serum of Vipera palaestinae Neutralizing Toxic Fractions of its Venom.- Purification and Biological Properties of a Coagulant Protein from the Venom of Vipera russellii.- Characterization of the Coagulant Activity of the Venom of Aglyphous rhabdophis tigrinm Sndkt.- The Use of Snake Venoms in Coagulation Research and Therapy.- The Hemagglutinating Activity of Trimeresurus okinavensis Venom.- Phospholipase A from Formosan Cobra (Naja naja atra) Venom.- Action of Phospholipase A from Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) Venom of the Phospholipids of Human Blood.- Studies on the Effect of Trimeresurus flavoviridis Venom on Serum Ammonia and Phospholipid Level.- Proteases of Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma Venom.- Nucleolytic Enzymes of the Venom of Crotalus adamanteus.- Snake Venom ADPase.- Further Purification, Inhibitory Spectrum, and Some Kinetic Properties of Protease Inhibitor in Bee Venom.- Antimicrobial Activity of Alkaloids from Amphibian Venoms and Effects on the Ultrastructure of Yeast Cells.- The Toxic and Antitoxic Factors Derived from the Skin Secretion of the Flatfish Pardachinis marmoratus (Soleidae).- Separation of Grammistins A1 and A2 from a Soapfish Pogonoperca punctata.- Some Chemical Properties of the Skin Toxin in Coral Gobies Gobiodon spp.- Pharmacologically Active Amines in a Turban Shell, Turbo argyrostoma.- II Biochemistry (Plants).- Some Aspects of the Mechanism of Anticancer Activities of Abrin and Ricin.- Hemolysins in a Green Alga Ulva pertusa.- Occurrence of a Toxic Blue-Green Alga Inducing Skin Dermatitis in Okinawa.- Studies on the Mechanism of Action of Prymnesium Toxin toward Membranes.- III. Biochemistry (Microbes).- Mutation in ?-Phage Genome Affecting Diphtheria Toxin Structural Gene and Toxin Yield.- Two Antigenically Active, Complementary Polypeptide Fragments of Tetanus Neurotoxin.- Molecular Structure of Clostridium botulinum Toxins.- Factors Influencing the Production of a-Toxin (Phospholipase C) by Clostridium perfringens.- Complementation in Toxin Production between Mutants of Two Groups of Gostridium perfringens.- Purification and Characterization of a-Toxin (Phospholipase C) of Clostridium perfringens.- Studies on the Mode of Action of Phospholipases on Mammalian Erythrocytes.- Chemical Structure and Biochemical Action of Staphlococcal a-Toxin.- Streptokinase (SK) and Its Reactive Protein Separated from Human Plasma.- Cytolytic Substance Produced by Flavobacterium aquatile B5X.- Further Studies on Characterization and Biological Activities of an Enteropathogenic Toxin of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.- The Biological Properties of the Protein Moiety of Endotoxin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa.- Study on in Vivo Cytotoxicity Caused by Endotoxin Injection.- Histamine Hypersensitivity in Mice Induced by Bacterial Endotoxins.- The Capillary Bed in Nonspecific Endotoxoid-Induced Endotoxin Tolerance.- Effects of Endotoxins and B