Anticonvulsant effects of the wasp Polybia ignobilis venom on chemically induced seizures and action on GABA and glutamate receptors

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - C Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-57

  Siqueira Cunha, Alexandra Olimpio ^a   Mortari, Márcia Renata ^a   Oliveira, Luciana ^a   Gomes Carolino, Ruither Oliveira ^a   Coutinho Netto, Joaquim ^a   Ferreira Dos Santos, Wagner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anticonvulsants; Binding inhibition; GABA and glutamate receptors; Neurotoxins; Polybia ignoblis; Seizures; Venoms; Wasp

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; PENTETRAZOLE; PICROTOXIN; WASP VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEATH; EXPOSURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; WASP;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; MAMMALIA; POLYBIA; POLYBIA IGNOBILIS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 21844434459     PISSN: 15320456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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