Some toxicological characteristics of three venomous soft corals from the Red Sea

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 25-35

  Radwan, Faisal F Y ^a,b   Aboul Dahab, Hosney M ^b   Burnett, Joseph W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthozoa; Dendronephthya; Heteroxenia fuscescens; Nematocyst; Nephthea; Red Sea; Soft coral; Toxins; Venoms

Indexed keywords

COELENTERATE VENOM; HEMOLYSIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PERMEABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL; CROSS REACTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ERYTHROCYTE; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LETHAL DOSE; LETHALITY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SERUM; SKIN NECROSIS; TOXICITY TESTING;

ALCYONACEA; ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; DENDRONEPHTHYA;

EID: 0036259028     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1532-0456(02)00045-5     Document Type: Article

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