Ricin toxicokinetics and its sensitive detection in mouse sera or feces using immuno-PCR

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-8

  He, Xiaohua ^a   McMahon, Stephanie ^a   Henderson II, Thomas D ^a   Griffey, Stephen M ^b   Cheng, Luisa W ^a  

^a WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; RICIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; HALF LIFE TIME; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNO POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; INTOXICATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; TOXICOKINETICS; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOASSAY; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZATION; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MUS; RICINUS COMMUNIS;

ANIMALS; CASTOR BEAN; FECES; FEMALE; IMMUNOASSAY; MICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RICIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77958474676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012858     Document Type: Article

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