Alterations in the ultrastructure of cardiac autonomic nervous system triggered by crotoxin from rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus cumanensis) venom

Experimental and Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 129-137

  Hernández, Miguelina ^a,b   Scannone, Héctor ^b   Finol, Héctor J ^c   Pineda, Maria E ^b   Fernández, Irma ^b   Vargas, Alba M ^b   Girón, María E ^a   Aguilar, Irma ^a   Rodríguez Acosta, Alexis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Autonomic nervous system; Crotalus durissus cumanensis; Crotoxin; Electron microscopy; Rattlesnakes; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CROTOXIN; MYELIN; SNAKE VENOM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CAPILLARY WALL; CELL SIZE; CELL VACUOLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTALUS DURISSUS CUMANENSIS; DILUTION; ELECTRON; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; LETHAL DOSE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; SARCOLEMMA; SCHWANN CELL; SNAKE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CROTALUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS CUMANENSIS; MUS;

EID: 34548622109     PISSN: 09402993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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