Occurrence of toxins, other than paralysing type, in the skin of tetraodontiformes fish

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-65

  Malpezzi, Elena L A ^a   De Freitas, José Carlos ^a   Rantin, Francisco Tadeu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; FISH VENOM; NEUROTOXIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; CYTOTOXICITY; HEMOLYSIS; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SKIN;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CYTOTOXINS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FISH VENOMS; FISHES, POISONOUS; HEART RATE; HEMOLYSIS; MICE; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NEUROTOXINS; RESPIRATION; SKIN;

EID: 0031033416     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00080-3     Document Type: Article

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