Effect of some variables on the in vivo determination of scorpion and viper venom toxicities

Biologicals

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 277-288

  Krifi, Mohamed Naceur ^a   Marrakchi, Naziha ^b   El Ayeb, Mohamed ^b   Dellagi, Koussey ^b  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM; VIPER VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENDER; INJECTION SITE; LD 50; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032459697     PISSN: 10451056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/biol.1998.0160     Document Type: Article

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