The use of hens' eggs as an alternative to the conventional in vivo rodent assay for antidotes to haemorrhagic venoms

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1413-1421

  Sells, P G ^a   Richards, A M ^a   Laing, G D ^a   Theakston, R D G ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; CALENDULA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; SNAKE VENOM; VENOM;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BLEEDING; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SCREENING; EGG; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEST; TECHNIQUE; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; CHICKENS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; MICE; SNAKE VENOMS;

ANIMALIA; CALENDULA; GALLUS GALLUS; RODENTIA; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0030709445     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00022-6     Document Type: Article

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