Carbamazepine is effective in the treatment of 21-day-old Wistar rats injected with Tityus serrulatus crude venom

Brain Research

Volumn 1239, Issue , 2008, Pages 256-260

  Guidine, Patrícia Alves Maia ^a   Moraes Santos, Tasso ^a   Massensini, André Ricardo ^a   Moraes, Márcio Flávio Dutra ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Carbamazepine; Neuroprotection; Neurotropic agent; Scorpion envenoming

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; SCORPION VENOM; TITYUS TOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENVENOMATION; INOCULATION; LATENT PERIOD; LETHALITY; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; SCORPIONES; TITYUS SERRULATUS;

EID: 54049097434     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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