Snake venoms and their toxins: An Australian perspective

Toxicon

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 931-940

  Hodgson, Wayne C ^a   Wickramaratna, Janith C ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Colubrid; Elapid; Snake; Toxin; Venom

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENVENOMATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LD 50; LETHALITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; SNAKE BITES; SNAKE VENOMS;

COLUBRIDAE; ELAPIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 33750949422     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.07.018     Document Type: Article

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