Inhibition of the hemorrhagic activity of Bothrops asper venom by a novel neutralizing mixture

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 865-877

  Borkow, Gadi ^a   Gutiérrez, Jose Maria ^b   Ovadia, Michael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; CITRATE SODIUM; DEFEROXAMINE; DOXYCYCLINE; EDETATE CALCIUM DISODIUM; EDETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MINOCYCLINE; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; VIPER VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVENOMATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; EDETIC ACID; HEMORRHAGE; IMMUNE SERA; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG; MAMMALS; PHENANTHROLINES; VIPER VENOMS;

ANIMALIA; BOTHROPS ASPER; EQUUS CABALLUS; SERPENTES; VIPER;

EID: 0031172832     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00193-6     Document Type: Article

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