Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Soricidin is a paralytic oligopeptide found in the venomous saliva of the northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda); in the wild, shrews use it to paralyze their prey (typically insects). Its name is a reference to "Soricidae", the family to which shrews belong.In addition to blocking transmission of nerve impulses by inhibiting sodium channels, soricidin also inhibits the TRPV6 calcium channel, which is over-expressed in many epithelial-cell cancers; as a result, soricidin is able to selectively induce apoptosis in breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.It is 54 amino acids long. It was first extracted and identified in 2000, as a result of basic research by Jack Stewart of Mount Allison University."@en }
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- Soricidin abstract "Soricidin is a paralytic oligopeptide found in the venomous saliva of the northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda); in the wild, shrews use it to paralyze their prey (typically insects). Its name is a reference to "Soricidae", the family to which shrews belong.In addition to blocking transmission of nerve impulses by inhibiting sodium channels, soricidin also inhibits the TRPV6 calcium channel, which is over-expressed in many epithelial-cell cancers; as a result, soricidin is able to selectively induce apoptosis in breast, ovarian, and prostate cancer.It is 54 amino acids long. It was first extracted and identified in 2000, as a result of basic research by Jack Stewart of Mount Allison University.".