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- From: gee@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca (Thomas Gee)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Cobra Venom
- Summary: DCS, CVF
- Message-ID: <6890@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 16:33:48 GMT
- References: <BzpF78.MwE@imag.fr>
- Organization: Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine
- Lines: 19
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- In article <BzpF78.MwE@imag.fr> jcm@mururoa (Jean-Christophe Martin(Echirolles)) writes:
- >I'm looking for somecobra venom applications in medicine.
-
- [I meant to send this by mail, but I couldn't obtain your address.]
-
- I know of some work that has been done in the research of decompression
- sickness that involved cobra venom factor. The researchers were examining
- the interaction between the nitrogen bubbles and the blood complement
- system (alternate activation pathway), using rabbits. Apparently, CVF
- suppresses complement activation in rabbits (which significantly alters
- the rabbits' responses to compression profiles).
-
- C.A. Ward et al., "Complement activation involvement in decompression
- sickness of rabbits". Undersea Biomed Res 1990; 17(1):51-66.
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- Aerospace/Biosciences, DCIEM, CFB Toronto, DND, Canada
- Disclaimer: the previous is solely the opinion of the author.
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