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Antiophidian properties of plant extracts against Lachesis muta venom
Provedor de dados: Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases
Autores: De Paula,RC; Sanchez,EF; Costa,TR; Martins,CHG; Pereira,PS; Lourenço,MV; Soares,AM; Fuly,AL.
Snakebites comprise a serious health problem in several countries due to their global incidence, which exceeds 2.5 million per year, and the elevated number of victim fatalities. To counteract envenomations, antivenoms have been used regularly for more than a century. Apart from side effects including anaphylactic reactions, antivenoms are not able to efficiently neutralize local tissue damage, which contributes to increasing the severity and morbidity observed in patients. This fact, in turn, may be responsible for economic hardship, particularly in rural populations of developing countries. In the present work, we evaluated the antiophidian properties of 12 Brazilian plant extracts against the hemolytic, coagulant, hemorrhagic and proteolytic effects of...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Snake venom; Lachesis muta; Plant extract; Antivenom; Biological activities.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992010000200012