Comparative Treatment of α-Amanitin Poisoning With N-Acetylcysteine, Benzylpenicillin, Cimetidine, Thioctic Acid, and Silybin in a Murine Model

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 282-288

  Tong, Tri C ^a   Hernandez, Mark ^b   Richardson III, William H ^a   Betten, David P ^a   Favata, Michael ^b   Riffenburgh, Robert H ^b   Clark, Richard F ^a   Tanen, David A ^b  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALPHA AMANITIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CIMETIDINE; PENICILLIN G; SILIBININ; THIOCTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIVER NECROSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; MOUSE; MUSHROOM; MUSHROOM POISONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; AMANITINS; ANIMALS; ANTIDOTES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; CIMETIDINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HEPATITIS, TOXIC; MALE; MICE; MUSHROOM POISONING; PENICILLIN G; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SILYMARIN; THIOCTIC ACID;

EID: 34547864246     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.12.015     Document Type: Article

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