A study on the venom yield of venomous snake species from Argentina

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1949-1957

  De Roodt, Adolfo R ^a   Dolab, Jorge A ^a   Galarce, Pedro P ^a   Gould, Eduardo ^b   Litwin, Silvana ^a   Dokmetjian, J Christian ^a   Segre, Liliana ^a   Vidal, Juan C ^c  

^a Administracion Nacional de Laboratorios E Institutos de Salud Dr Carlos G Malbran   (Argentina)

^b Fundacion de Estudios Biologicos   (Argentina)

^c MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARGENTINA; BODY WEIGHT; BOTHROPS; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; ELAPIDAE; FEMALE; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SNAKE VENOMS; SNAKES;

EID: 0032400759     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00119-6     Document Type: Article

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