Phenobarbital blocks the lung edema induced by centrally injected tityustoxin in adult Wistar rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 332, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 119-122

  Mesquita, Michel Bernanos Soares ^a   Moraes Santos, Tasso ^a   Moraes, Márcio Flávio Dutra ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Edema; Intracerebroventricular; Neurogenic; Neuroprotection; Scorpion venom; Tityus serrulatus; Toxin

Indexed keywords

PHENOBARBITAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TITYUS TOXIN; VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG MECHANISM; LUNG; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN;

ANIMALS; GABA MODULATORS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LUNG; MALE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PHENOBARBITAL; PULMONARY EDEMA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SCORPION VENOMS;

EID: 0037206661     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00932-1     Document Type: Article

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