Venom of a six-eyed crab spider, Sicarius testaceus (Purcell, 1908), causes necrotic and haemorrhagic lesions in the rabbit

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1149-1152

  Van Aswegen, G ^a   Van Rooyen, J M ^a   Van Der Nest, D G ^a   Veldman, F J ^a   De Villiers, T H ^b   Oberholzer, G ^c  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Tellab   (South Africa)

^c SEFAKO MAKGATHO HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; SPIDER VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; ENVENOMATION; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ANIMALS; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; HEMORRHAGE; NECROSIS; PLATELET COUNT; RABBITS; SPIDER VENOMS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VISCERA;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LOXOSCELES; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; THOMISIDAE;

EID: 0030786420     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00203-6     Document Type: Article

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