Neutralizing potency of horse antibothropic Brazilian antivenom against Bothrops snake venoms from the Amazonian rain forest

Toxicon

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1859-1863

  Muniz, Emiro G ^a   Maria, Wany S ^b   Estevão Costa, Maria I ^b   Buhrnheim, Paulo ^a   Chávez Olórtegui, Carlos ^b  

^a Fund Med Trop Inst Med T   (Brazil)

^b FUNDAÇÃO EZEQUIEL DIAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antivenoms; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Neutralizing potency; Venoms

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HEMOLYSIS; HORSE; LD 50; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SNAKEBITE; TOXICITY TESTING;

BOTHROPS; BOTHROPS ATROX; BOTHROPS JARARACA; BOTHROPS TAENIATUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0034594347     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(00)00082-9     Document Type: Article

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