See Also: Canavan, Myrtelle(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Canavan's disease(medicine)
Canavan disease(health)
Disease, Canavan(health)
Canavan disease(medicine)
Canavan's sclerosis(medicine)
Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand disease(medicine)
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Orthomolecular medicine (orthomolecular nutritional medicine, orthomolecular therapy)(health)

kistrin (medicine) and Canavan, Myrtelle (medicine)


kistrin (medicine)


kistrin
<haematology, molecular biology> Naturally occurring inhibitor (68 residue peptide) of platelet aggregation found in the venom of Malayan pit viper Agkistrodon rhodostoma.

Kistrin has an RGD site that competes for the platelet IIb/IIIa integrin and is therefore one of the disintegrins.


Canavan, Myrtelle (medicine)


Canavan, Myrtelle
<person> U.S. Pathologist, 1879-1953.

See: Canavan's disease, Canavan's sclerosis, Canavan-van Bogaert-Bertrand disease.