Trypsin and rosmarinic acid reduce the toxicity of Micrurus fulvius venom in mice

Clinical Toxicology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 118-120

  Parker Cote, J L ^a   O'Rourke, D P ^a   Miller, S N ^a   Brewer, K L ^a   Rosenbaum, M D ^a   Meggs, W J ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Rosmarinic acid; Snakebites; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

MICRURUS FULVIUS VENOM; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 INHIBITOR; ROSMARINIC ACID; SNAKE VENOM; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG COST; ELAPIDAE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LD 50; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICRURUS FULVIUS; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POISONOUS SNAKE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SNAKEBITE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; CINNAMATES; DEPSIDES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SNAKE BITES; TRYPSIN;

EID: 84893500961     PISSN: 15563650     EISSN: 15569519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15563650.2013.872792     Document Type: Article

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