Green medicine as a harmonizing tool to antivenom therapy for the clinical management of snakebite: The road ahead

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 10-12

  Mukherjee, Ashis K ^a,b  

^a TEZPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXY 4 METHOXY BENZOIC ACID; ANISIC ACID; ARISTOLOCHIC ACID; ISOQUINOLINE ALKALOID; LEPUOL ACETATE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; SALICYLIC ACID; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARISTOLOCHIA RADIX; CARDIOSPERMUM HALICACABUM; ENVENOMATION; GREEN MEDICINE; HEMIDESMUS INDICUS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; MEDICINAL PLANT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SNAKEBITE;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; INDIA; SNAKE BITES; SNAKES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84865462166     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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