Conotoxins: From the biodiversity of gastropods to new drugs

Alexander Fedosov1, Sergei A. Moshkovskii2, Ksenia G. Kuznetsova3, Baldomero M. Olivera4
1Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia
2Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia
3Orekhovich Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, ul. Pogodinskaya 10, Moscow, 119121, Russia
4Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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