Effects of topical heparin, antivenom, tetracycline and dexamethasone treatment in corneal injury resulting from the venom of the black spitting cobra (Naja sumatrana), in a rabbit model

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 287-292

  Cham, Gregory ^a   Chuan Hsin Pan, James ^a   Lim, Francis ^b   Earnest, Arul ^a   Gopalakrishnakone, P ^c  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b Singapore Zoological Gardens ^*  (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cobra; Heparin; Naja sumatrana; Ocular opacity

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HEPARIN; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; TETRACYCLINE; SNAKE VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; BLINDNESS; CHEMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA INJURY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENVENOMATION; EPITHELIZATION; LACRIMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SCAR FORMATION; SNAKE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE MODEL; EYE DISEASE; OINTMENT; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

NAJA; NAJA NIGRICOLLIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; COBRA; COBRA VENOMS; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE DISEASES; HEPARIN; MALE; OINTMENTS; RABBITS; TETRACYCLINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745059038     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15563650600584451     Document Type: Article

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