Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Biochemistry
Neitz, AWH
MSc(Agric) DSc(Agric)(Pret) - Professor
NRF Rating: B3
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 2906
Fax number: 012 362 5302
E-mail address: albert.neitz@bioagric.up.ac.za
Research Interests:
The biochemistry, immunology and molecular biology of parasites and bacteria of medical-veterinary significance in Southern Africa
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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