Experimental envenoming of mice with venom from the scorpion Centruroides limpidus limpidus: Differences in mortality and symptoms with and without antibody therapy relating to differences in age, sex and strain of mouse

Toxicon

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 959-965

  Padilla, Alejandro ^a   Govezensky, Tzipe ^b   Possani, Lourival D ^c   Larralde, Carlos ^b,c,d,e  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^d CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE CIENCIAS   (Mexico)

^e NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Age; Antivenom; Centruroides limpidus limpidus; Genetic background; Scorpion; Sex; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ALACRAMYN; ANTIBODY; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM ANTISERUM; ANTIDOTE; CENTRUROIDES TOXIN; NEUROTOXIN;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HYPERACTIVITY; INTOXICATION; LETHAL DOSE; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION; SEX DIFFERENCE; AKATHISIA; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BREATHING; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; LD 50; RESTLESSNESS; TOXICITY TESTING;

CENTRUROIDES; CENTRUROIDES LIMPIDUS LIMPIDUS; EQUUS CABALLUS; SCORPIONES;

AGE FACTORS; AKATHISIA, DRUG-INDUCED; ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; FEMALE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROTOXINS; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; RESPIRATION; SCORPION VENOMS; SEX FACTORS; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 0142087853     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(03)00036-9     Document Type: Article

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