Ability of wedelolactone, heparin, and para-bromophenacyl bromide to antagonize the myotoxic effects of two crotaline venoms and their PLA2 myotoxins

Toxicon

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 199-215

  Melo, Paulo A ^a   Ownby, Charlotte L ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 BROMOPHENACYL BROMIDE; CREATINE KINASE; HEPARIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM; WEDELOLACTONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETOPHENONES; AGKISTRODON; ANIMALS; ANTICOAGULANTS; CELLS, CULTURED; COUMARINS; CREATINE KINASE; CROTALID VENOMS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; HEPARIN; KINETICS; LIPOXYGENASE INHIBITORS; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; POLYLYSINE;

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON CONTORTRIX LATICINCTUS; CITRUS VARIEGATION VIRUS; CROTALUS; CROTALUS VIRIDIS VIRIDIS;

EID: 0032890010     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00183-4     Document Type: Article

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