Immunological profile of antivenoms: Preclinical analysis of the efficacy of a polyspecific antivenom through antivenomics and neutralization assays

Journal of Proteomics

Volumn 105, Issue , 2014, Pages 340-350

  Gutiérrez, José María ^a   Lomonte, Bruno ^a   Sanz, Libia ^b   Calvete, Juan J ^b   Pla, Davinia ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antivenom; Antivenomics; Costa rican snakes; Pre clinical neutralization test; Snake envenoming; Snake venomics

Indexed keywords

DISINTEGRIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; P I METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; SNAKE VENOM ANTISERUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOACTIVE PEPTIDE; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VENOM ANTISERUM;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIVENOMIC; BOTHROPS; BOTHROPS ASPER; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COSTA RICA; CROSS REACTION; CROTALUS; CROTALUS SIMUS; ENDODONTIC FILE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LACHESIS STENOPHRYS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SERODIAGNOSIS; SNAKEBITE; VIPERIDAE; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; HORSE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIVENINS; HORSES; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOASSAY; SNAKE VENOMS;

EID: 84901792873     PISSN: 18743919     EISSN: 18767737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2014.02.021     Document Type: Review

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