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Complex Mixtures > Venoms > Mollusk Venoms > Conotoxins > omega-Conotoxins
... > Biological Factors > Toxins, Biological > Marine Toxins > Mollusk Venoms > Conotoxins > omega-Conotoxins

Preferred term

omega-Conotoxins  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • omega Conotoxin
  • omega-Conotoxin

Scope note

  • A family of structurally related neurotoxic peptides from mollusk venom that inhibit voltage-activated entry of calcium into the presynaptic membrane. They selectively inhibit N-, P-, and Q-type calcium channels.

History note

  • 2000

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020960

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