Effects of 60Co gamma radiation on toxicity and hemorrhagic, myonecrotic, and edema-forming activities of Cerastes cerastes venom

Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1125-1130

  Abib, Hinda ^a   Laraba Djebari, Fatima ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^b Institut Pasteur d'Algerie   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Cerastes cerastes; Gamma radiation; Histopathological change; Venom

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; CREATINE KINASE; SNAKE VENOM; COBALT; VIPER VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BLEEDING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; DETOXIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVALUATION; GAMMA RADIATION; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IRRADIATION; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SAMPLING; SERUM; SNAKEBITE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOXICITY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; FOOT; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LD 50; MOUSE STRAIN; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN; SKIN DISEASE; SNAKE; TOXICITY TESTING;

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ANIMALS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; CREATINE KINASE; EDEMA; FOOT; GAMMA RAYS; HEMORRHAGE; IMMUNIZATION; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MYOCARDIUM; NECROSIS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0442275980     PISSN: 00084212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/y03-121     Document Type: Article

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