Heat and motion stability of polyvalent crotalidae antivenin, ovine Fab

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 377-382

  Decker, Wyatt W ^a   Bogdan, Gregory M ^b   Garcia, Ray A ^b   Wollen, Peter ^a   Dart, Richard C ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN POISON AND DRUG CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; SNAKE VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ENVENOMATION; FREEZING; HEAT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMOBILIZATION; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKEBITE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; CROTALID VENOMS; DRUG STABILITY; DRUG STORAGE; HEAT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MOTION; SHEEP;

EID: 0031970991     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00073-1     Document Type: Article

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