Envenoming bites by kraits: The biological basis of treatment-resistant neuromuscular paralysis

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2987-2996

  Prasarnpun, S ^a,b   Walsh, J ^a   Awad, S S ^a   Harris, J B ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Krait; Neurobiology; Neuromuscular junction; Neuropathology; Neuropathy; Neuropharmacology; Snake bite

Indexed keywords

BETA BUNGAROTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; SNAKE VENOM; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ENVENOMATION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE DENERVATION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHWANN CELL; SNAKEBITE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; UPREGULATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BUNGAROTOXINS; BUNGARUS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PARALYSIS; QA-SNARE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SNAKE VENOMS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

EID: 28544433408     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh642     Document Type: Article

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