Animal toxins and the kidney

Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 616-627

  Sitprija, Visith ^a,b  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b QUEEN SAOVABHA MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Animal toxins; Enzymes; Hemodynamics; Peptides; Renal involvement

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; CYTOKINE; ENZYME; INSECT VENOM; ION CHANNEL; MARINE TOXIN; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; RECEPTOR; SNAKE VENOM; TOXIN;

BLEEDING; DEPOLARIZATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; KIDNEY BLOOD FLOW; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY STRUCTURE; KIDNEY TUBULE NECROSIS; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS;

ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSECT BITES AND STINGS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SNAKE BITES; SNAKE VENOMS; SPIDER VENOMS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 54949090720     PISSN: 17458323     EISSN: 17458331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneph0941     Document Type: Review

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