Effects of Bothrops pirajai venom on the mouse extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle preparation

Toxicon

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1143-1153

  Costa, Patrícia D ^a   Toyama, Marcos H ^a   Marangoni, Sérgio ^a   Rodrigues Simioni, Léa ^a   Da Cruz Höfling, Maria Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG TOXICITY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BOTHROPS; CREATINE KINASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MICE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOGRAPHY; SNAKE VENOMS;

BOTHROPS PIRAJAI; SERPENTES;

EID: 0032903028     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00250-5     Document Type: Article

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