A new ELISA for determination of potency in snake antivenoms

Toxicon

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 462-466

  Rial, A ^a   Morais, V ^a   Rossi, S ^a   Massaldi, H ^a  

^a Universidad de la Republica Instituto de Higiene   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Antivenom; Bothrops antivenom; ED50; ELISA; In vitro assay

Indexed keywords

HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB')2 FRAGMENT; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG POTENCY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSE; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URUGUAY;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HORSES; IMMUNIZATION; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; SNAKE VENOMS;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 33747753259     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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