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Study on cephalopod's ink for anti-retroviral activity
J Rajaganapathi1, S P Thyagarajan, J K Edward
1Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology, Annamalai University, Parangipettai 608 502, India.
Indian Journal of Experimental Biology
|March 29, 2001
Abstract:
Aqueous extracts of ink from four cephalopods, adult and young Sepiella inermis and Loligo duvaucelli were tested against Moloney murine leukaemia virus reverse transcriptase (MMLV RT). Ink from young cephalopods, S. intermis and L. duvaucelli showed strong inhibition of MMLV RT.