The analgesic activity of crotamine, a neurotoxin from Crotalus durissus terrificus (South American rattlesnake) venom: A biochemical and pharmacological study

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1927-1937

  Mancin, Adriana C ^a   Soares, Andreimar M ^a   Andrião Escarso, Silvia H ^a   Faça, Vitor M ^a   Greene, Lewis J ^a   Zuccolotto, Sérgio ^a   Pela, Irene R ^a   Giglio, José R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CROTAMINE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NEUROTOXIN; SEPHADEX; SNAKE VENOM;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; GEL FILTRATION; HEART; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOT PLATE TEST; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMALL INTESTINE; SPLEEN; STOMACH; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WRITHING TEST;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; MALE; MICE; NALOXONE; NEUROTOXINS; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0032400766     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00117-2     Document Type: Article

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