In vitro hemolytic activity of Lonomia obliqua caterpillar bristle extract on human and Wistar rat erythrocytes

Toxicon

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 831-839

  Seibert, Carla Simone ^a,b   Guerra Shinohara, Elvira Maria ^a   Sano Martins, Ida Sigueko ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte membrane proteins; Hemolysis; Lonomia obliqua; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVENOMATION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

LONOMIA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0038358185     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(03)00040-0     Document Type: Article

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