Investigation of the effect of PhTx2, from the venom of the spider Phoneutria nigriventer, on the release of [3H]-acetylcholine from rat cerebrocortical synaptosomes

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1189-1192

  Moura, Juliano R ^a   Prado, Marco A M ^a   Gomez, Marcus V ^a   Kalapothakis, Evanguedes ^a   Diniz, Carlos R ^b   Cordeiro, Marta N ^b   Romano Silva, Marco A ^a  

^a Univ Fed M   (Brazil)

^b FUNDAÇÃO EZEQUIEL DIAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPIDER VENOM; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPIDER VENOMS; SYNAPTOSOMES; TRITIUM;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PHONEUTRIA NIGRIVENTER;

EID: 0031843261     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00094-4     Document Type: Article

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