Lonomia obliqua caterpillar venom increases permeability of the blood-brain barrier in rats

Toxicon

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 625-634

  Da Silva, Gustavo Henrique ^a   Hyslop, Stephen ^a   Da Cruz Höfling, Maria Alice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Capillaries; Lonomia obliqua; Morphometry; Permeability; Transmission electron microscopy; Venom

Indexed keywords

LANTHANUM; VENOM; ARTHROPOD VENOM; LANTHANIDE NITRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CEREBELLUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONOMIA ABLIQUA; MALE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MICROSCOPY; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAZIL; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; MORPHOMETRICS; PATHOLOGY; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VENOMS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAZIL; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CEREBELLUM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LANTHANUM; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOTHS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 13444250295     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.07.016     Document Type: Article

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