Marine neurotoxins: Envenomations and contact toxins

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 115-123

  Watters, Michael R ^a   Stommel, Elijah W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIVENIM; COLESTYRAMINE; CONOTOXIN; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MARINE TOXIN; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; NEUROTOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; OMEPRAZOLE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; SORBITOL; TETRODOTOXIN; VINEGAR;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENVENOMATION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; HYPOTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; INTUBATION; JELLYFISH; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; PAIN; PARALYSIS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SNAIL; SNAKEBITE; SPECIES HABITAT; THERMOSTABILITY; VASOSPASM;

EID: 5444257512     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-004-0021-8     Document Type: Review

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