Investigation of the microcirculation and the state of oxidative stress in the rat after scorpion envenomation

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 263-268

  Sahnoun, Z ^a,b   Chaker Krichen, S ^b   Kassis, M ^c   Hakim, A ^b   Hammami, S ^b   Ghozzi, H ^b   Bouayed, N ^a   Bellasfar, Z ^d   Zeghal, K M ^b   Rebai, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b Laboratory of Pharmacologie   (France)

^c HEDI CHAKER HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^d PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Free radicals; Histomorphometry; Inflammatory process; Melatonin; Scorpion envenomation; Vasomotricity

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; MALONALDEHYDE; MELATONIN; SCORPION VENOM; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVENOMATION; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; INFLAMMATION; ISOLATED HEART; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SCORPION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VENOUS STASIS; VENULE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, POISONOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MELATONIN; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846941944     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: 14401681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04542.x     Document Type: Article

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