Comparison of the effect of Crotalus simus and Crotalus durissus ruruima venoms on the equine antibody response towards Bothrops asper venom: Implications for the production of polyspecific snake antivenoms

Toxicon

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 237-243

  Dos Santos, Maria Cristina ^a   Arroyo, Cynthia ^b   Solano, Sergio ^b   Herrera, María ^b   Villalta, Mauren ^b   Segura, Álvaro ^b   Estrada, Ricardo ^b   Gutiérrez, José María ^b   León, Guillermo ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Bothrops asper; Crotalus durissus ruruima; Crotalus simus; Immunization; Immunomodulation; Snake antivenom; Snake venom

Indexed keywords

BOTHROPS ASPER VENOM ANTISERUM; BOTHROPS ASPER VENOM ANTISERUM PLUS CROTALUS DURISSUS RURUIMA VENOM ANTISERUM; BOTHROPS ASPER VENOM ANTISERUM PLUS CROTALUS SIMUS VENOM ANTISERUM; CROTALUS DURISSUS RURUIMA VENOM ANTISERUM; CROTALUS SIMUS VENOM ANTISERUM; CYSTEINE; DISINTEGRIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LECTIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; SYNAPSIN I; SYNAPSIN II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BOTHROPS ASPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROTALUS DURISSUS RURUIMA; CROTALUS SIMUS; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HORSE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LD 50; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POISONOUS SNAKE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PURIFICATION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODY FORMATION; ANTIVENINS; BLOOD COAGULATION; BOTHROPS; CROSS REACTIONS; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; FEMALE; HORSES; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOTHROPS ASPER; CROTALUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS RURUIMA; EQUIDAE;

EID: 79251628725     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.11.016     Document Type: Article

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