Cardiovascular profile after intravenous injection of africanized bee venom in awake rats

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-58

  Guimarães, Janaína Valadares ^a   Costa, Roberto Silva ^b   Machado, Benedito Honório ^b   Dos Reis, Marlene Antônia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UBERABA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Triangulo Mineiro Medical School   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute renal failure; Africanized bee venom; Cardiovascular; Heart rate; Mean arterial pressure

Indexed keywords

BEE VENOM;

ACUTE KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEE STING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; RAT;

EID: 1542515016     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652004000100012     Document Type: Article

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