Comparison of the biological activities in venoms from three subspecies of the South American rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus terrificus, C. durissus cascavella and C. durissus collilineatus)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Pharmacology Toxicology and Endocrinology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-73

  Santoro, Marcelo L ^a   Sousa E Silva, Maria C C ^a   Gonçalves, Luís R C ^a   Almeida Santos, Selma M ^a   Cardoso, Diva F ^a   Laporta Ferreira, Iara L ^a   Saiki, Mitiko ^b   Peres, Clóvis A ^c   Sano Martins, Ida S ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antivenom; Blood coagulation; Crotamine; Crotoxin; Inverse linear regression; Myotoxicity; Phospholipase A2; Platelet aggregation; Proteolysis; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CATTLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LD 50; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RABBIT; SNAKE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BROMINE; CATTLE; CHLORINE; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; EDEMA; FACTOR X; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; MAGNESIUM; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PLATELET AGGREGATION; PROTHROMBIN; RABBITS; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032969161     PISSN: 07428413     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0742-8413(98)10079-8     Document Type: Article

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