Development of an elisa to assess the potency of horse therapeutic polyvalent antibothropic antivenom

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1363-1370

  Heneine, Luiz Guilherme Dias ^a   Carvalho Jr , Álvaro De Dutra ^a   Barbosa, Célia De Fátima ^a   Dos Santos, Maria Raquel Aravjo ^a  

^a FUNDAÇÃO EZEQUIEL DIAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SAFETY; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; LD 50; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKEBITE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BOTHROPS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CROTALID VENOMS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSES; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PHOSPHOLIPASES A;

BOTHROPS; BOTHROPS JARARACA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; SERPENTES;

EID: 0345337378     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00014-2     Document Type: Article

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