Structural and ultrastructural encephalic alterations caused by de poison of the snake mapanare (Bothrops colombiensis);Alteraciones estructurales y ultraestructurales del encéfalo ocasionados por veneno de la serpiente mapanare (Bothrops colombiensis)

Revista de Toxicologia

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-203

  Rodríguez Acosta, Alexis ^a,c   Monterrey, F ^a   Cespedes G ^b   Finol, H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c NONE   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Encephalon; Snakes; Structure; Ultrastructure; Venom

Indexed keywords

BRAIN EXTRACT; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MYELIN; PARAFORMALDEHYDE; SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BLEEDING; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BODY WEIGHT; BOTHROPS COLOMBIENSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SPONGIOSIS; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACTION; EXTRAVASATION; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INOCULATION; LEPTOMENINX; LETHAL DOSE; MAMMAL; MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION SWELLING; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; ORGAN; PINOCYTOSIS; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA; BOTHROPS; MAMMALIA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0347762667     PISSN: 02127113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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