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Disagregin is a fibrinogen receptor antagonist lacking the Arg-Gly-Asp sequence from the tick, Ornithodoros moubata.
1 Mar 1994
Abstract excerpt
A platelet aggregation inhibitor was identified in the salivary gland of the tick Ornithodoros moubata and isolated by gel filtration and reverse phase high pressure liquid chromatography. The purified inhibitor is a approximately 6-kDa protein, which we have named disagregin. It inhibits ADP-stimulated platelet aggregation in plasma with an IC50 = 104 +/- 17 nM. Disagregin also inhibits platelet aggregation...
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