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The Weak Neurotoxin from the Naja kaouthiaCobra Venom Decreases the Arterial Blood Pressure in Rats

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The weak neurotoxin from the Naja kaouthiacobra venom was found, under the intravenous administration to rats, to reduce the arterial blood pressure and increase the heart rate.

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  1. Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (Pushchino Branch), Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow oblast, 142292, Russia

    D. I. Rzhevskii & A. N. Murashev

  2. Shemyakin–Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Miklukho-Maklaya 16/10, GSP Moscow, 117997, Russia

    V. V. Kukhtina, V. I. Tsetlin & Yu. N. Utkin

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Rzhevskii, D.I., Murashev, A.N., Kukhtina, V.V. et al. The Weak Neurotoxin from the Naja kaouthiaCobra Venom Decreases the Arterial Blood Pressure in Rats. Russian Journal of Bioorganic Chemistry 27, 195–197 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011337522449

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