ELISA for the detection of venoms from four medically important snakes of India

Toxicon

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 757-770

  Selvanayagam, Z Emmanuel ^a,b   Gnanavendhan, S G ^a   Ganesh, K A ^b   Rajagopal, D ^b   Subba Rao, P V ^b,c  

^a Forensic Sciences Department Tamil Nadu   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GOAT; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SNAKEBITE; TISSUE HOMOGENATE; TISSUE LEVEL; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELAPID VENOMS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; GOATS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SNAKE BITES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VACCINATION; VIPER VENOMS;

BUNGARUS CAERULEUS; DABOIA; DABOIA RUSSELLII RUSSELLII; ECHIS CARINATUS; NAJA NAJA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0033011782     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00215-3     Document Type: Article

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