Anticonvulsant and GABA uptake inhibition properties of venom fractions from the spiders Parawixia bistriata and Scaptocosa raptoria

Pharmaceutical Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 472-477

  Cairrao M A R ^a   Ribeiro, A M ^a   Pizzo, A B ^a   Fontana, A C K ^a   Beleboni, R O ^a   Coutinho Netto, J ^a   Miranda, A ^b   Dos Santos, Wagner Ferreira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Universidade de São Paulo ^*

Author keywords

Anticonvulsant; Bicuculline; GABA; GABA uptake; Parawixia bistriata; Pentilenetetrazole; Picrotoxin; Rat synaptosomes; Scaptocosa raptoria; Spider venom

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE; PENTETRAZOLE; PICROTOXIN; SPIDER VENOM; SPIDER VENOM FRACTION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GRAND MAL EPILEPSY; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER UPTAKE; NONHUMAN; PARAWIXIA BISTRIATA; RAT; SCAPTOCOSA RAPTORIA; SPIDER; SYNAPTOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA; SCAPTOCOSA RAPTORIA;

EID: 0038385193     PISSN: 13880209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/phbi.40.6.472.8436     Document Type: Article

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