Antibody-mediated neutralization and binding-reversal studies on α-neurotoxins from Micrurus nigrocinctus nigrocinctus (coral snake) venom

Toxicon

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 369-380

  Alape Giron, Alberto ^a,b   Stiles, Bradley G ^c   Gutierrez, Jose Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; NEUROTOXIN; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; TOXIN ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIVENINS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CROSS REACTIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GUINEA PIGS; HORSES; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNIZATION; MICE; NEUROTOXINS; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC;

EID: 0030000643     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(95)00126-3     Document Type: Article

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