Hemorrhagic activity of the Duvernoy's gland secretion of the xenodontine colubrid Philodryas patagoniensis from the north-east region of Argentina

Toxicon

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1007-1012

  Acosta, O ^a   Leiva, L C ^a   Peichoto, M E ^a   Marunak S ^a   Teibler, P ^a   Rey, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL NORDESTE   (Argentina)

^b Serpentario Zoologico Cd Corrientes   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Fibrinogenolytic activity; Hemorrhagic activity; Philodryas patagoniensis; Proteolytic activity

Indexed keywords

CHELATING AGENT; EDETIC ACID; METAL ION; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; THROMBIN; FIBRINOGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FIBRINOGEN METABOLISM; FIBRINOGENOLYSIS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHILODRYAS PATAGONIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SAMPLE; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXICITY; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ECCHYMOSIS; LD 50; METABOLISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

BOTHROPS; COLUBRIDAE; PHILODRYAS OLFERSII; PHILODRYAS PATAGONIENSIS; SERPENTES;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; COLUBRIDAE; ECCHYMOSIS; FIBRINOGEN; HEMORRHAGE; LETHAL DOSE 50; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SNAKE VENOMS;

EID: 0142119467     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(03)00074-6     Document Type: Article

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