Inhibition of haemolytic activity of snake and scorpion venom by date extract

Biomedical Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 217, 1997, Pages 51-56

  Sallal, Abdul Karim J ^a,b   Amr, Zuhair S ^a   Disi, Ahmed M ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Cerastes cerastes; Date extract; Haemolysis; Leiurus quinquestriatus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031532892     PISSN: 0961088X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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