Different sensitivity of fast- and slow-twitch muscles to some snake venoms and myotoxins

Toxicon

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 653-669

  Melo, Paulo A ^a,b   Ownby, Charlotte L ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CROTOXIN; SNAKE VENOM; TOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; MUSCLE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX LATICINCTUS; ANIMALIA; CROTALUS; CROTALUS VIRIDIS VIRIDIS; MURINAE; NOTECHIS; NOTECHIS SCUTATUS SCUTATUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0030175731     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(96)00015-3     Document Type: Article

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