Anticonvulsant and behavioural effects of the denatured venom of the social wasp Polybia occidentalis (Polistinae, Vespidae)

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 289-295

  Mortari, Márcia Renata ^a   Siqueira Cunha, Alexandra Olimpio ^a   De Oliveira, Luciana ^a   Vieira, Eveline Bis ^a   Gelfuso, Erica Aparecida ^a   Coutinho Netto, Joaquim ^a   Ferreira Dos Santos, Wagner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BICUCULLINE; KAINIC ACID; NEUROTOXIN; PENTETRAZOLE; PICROTOXIN; WASP VENOM;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICONVULSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; GROOMING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; POLYBIA OCCIDENTALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SEIZURE; SPIDER; WASP;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CONVULSANTS; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; MAMMALIA; POLISTINAE; POLYBIA OCCIDENTALIS; POMPILIDAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 27744543876     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2005.pto_137.x     Document Type: Article

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