Hemorrhagic, oedema-forming activities and histopathological alterations in the mouse footpad induced by Bothrops and Crotalus snake venoms from Argentina;Actividades hemorragica y edematizante y alteraciones histologicas en almohadilla plantar del raton inducidas por venenos de serpientes de los generos Bothrops y Crotalus de Argentina

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1165-1172

  Acosta De Pérez, Ofelia C ^a   Koscinczuk, Patricia ^a   Teibler, Pamela ^a   Sánchez Negrette, Marcial ^a   Ruiz, Raquel ^a   Maruñak, Silvana ^a   Bogarín, Guisella ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; EDEMA; FOOT PAD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SNAKE; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FOOT; PATHOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; BOTHROPS; CROTALID VENOMS; EDEMA; FOOT; HEMORRHAGE; MICE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032134045     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00007-5     Document Type: Article

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