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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Biochemistry
Research articles in refereed specialist journals

Schleicher GK, Feldman C, Vermaak Y, Verschoor JA: 2002. Prevalence of anti-mycolic acid antibodies in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis co-infected with HIV. Clinical Chemistry, 40 (9), pp 882-887.

Mans BJ, Louw AI, Neitz AWH: 2002. Disaggregation of aggregated platelets by savignygrin, a aIIbß3 antagonists from Ornithodoros savignyi. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 27, pp 231-239.

Ehebauer MT, Mans BJ, Gaspar ARM, Neitz AWH: 2002. Identification of extrinsic blood coagulation pathway inhibitors from the tick Ornithodoros savignyi (Acari: Argasidae). Experimental Parasitology, 101, pp 138-148.

van Rensburg HG, Haydon D, Joubert F, Bastos AD, Heath L, Nel LH: 2002. Genetic heterogeneity in the foot-and-mouth disease virus Leader and 3C proteinases. Gene, 289, pp 19-29.

Mans BJ, Louw AI, Neitz AWH: 2002. Amino acid sequence and structure modeling of savignin, a thrombin inhibitor from the tick, Ornithodoros savignyi. Insect Biochemistry, 32, pp 821-828.

Manning SK, Woodrow C, Zuniga FA, Iserovich P, Fischbarg J, Louw AI, Krishna S: 2002. Mutational analysis of the hexose transporter of Plasmodium falciparum and development of a three-dimensional model. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277 (34) / Aug, pp 30942-30949.

Mans BJ, Louw AI, Neitz AWH: 2002. Savignygrin, a platelet aggregation inhibitor from the soft tick, Ornithodoros savignyi, presents the RGD integrin recognition motif on the Kunitz-BPTI fold. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277 (24), pp 21371-21378.

Wright LP, Mphangwe NIK, Nyirenda HE, Apostolides Z: 2002. Analysis of the theaflavin composition in black tea (Camellia sinensis) for predicting the quality of tea produced in Central and Southern Africa. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 82, pp 517-525.

Seegers JC, Lottering M-L, Joubert AM, Joubert F, Koorts AM, Engelbrecht CA, van Papendorp DH: 2002. A pulsed DC electric field affects P2-purinergic receptor functions by altering the ATP levels in in vitro and in vivo systems. Medical Hypotheses, 58 (2), pp 171-176.

Mans BJ, Louw AI, Neitz AWH: 2002. Evolution of hematophagy in ticks: Common origins for blood coagulation and platelet aggregation inhibitors from soft ticks of the genus Ornithodoros. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19 (10), pp 1695-1705.

Boca BM, Pretorius E, Gochin R, Chapoullie R, Apostolides Z: 2002. An Overview of the Validation Approach for Moist Heat Sterilization, Part I. Pharmaceutical Technology, / Sep, pp 62-70.

Boca BM, Pretorius E, Gochin R, Chapoullie R, Apostolides Z: 2002. An Overview of the Validation Approach for Moist Heat Sterilization, Part II. Pharmaceutical Technology, / Oct, pp 96-112.

Mans BJ, Steinmann CML, Venter JD, Louw AI, Neitz AWH: 2002. Pathogenic mechanisms of sand tampan toxicoses induced by the tick, Ornithodoros savignyi. Toxicon, 40, pp 1007-1016.