Medicinal plant extracts and molecules as the source of new anti-snake venom drugs

Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 309-346

  Soares, Andreimar M ^a   Marcussi, Silvana ^a   Fernandes, Renata S ^a   Menaldo, Danilo L ^a   Costa, Tássia R ^a   Lourenço, Miriam V ^b   Januário, Ana Helena ^c   Pereira, Paulo S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RIBEIRÃO PRETO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DE FRANCA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anti snake venom; Antiophidian plants; Ethnopharmacological studies; Medicinal plants; Natural inhibitors; Structural approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957923317     PISSN: 15672042     EISSN: 18755763     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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