Raquel Soares Oliveira, Allan Pinto Leal, Barbara Ogata, Carlos Gabriel Moreira de Almeida, Douglas Silva Dos Santos, Leandro Homrich Lorentz, Cleci Menezes Moreira, Karla de Castro Figueiredo Bordon, Eliane Candiani Arantes, Tiago Gomes Dos Santos, Cháriston André Dal Belo, Lúcia Vinadé
The biological activity of Rhinella icterica toxic secretion (RITS) was evaluated on chick neuromuscular junctions, rat heart́s tissue and mice hippocampal slices. At chick biventer cervicis preparation, RITS (5, 10 and 20μg/mL) produced a concentration-independent irreversible neuromuscular blockade, which was preceded by a transitory increase of muscle twitch tension with the lowest concentration, in 120min recordings. In this set of experiments, RITS incubation partially prevented the curare neuromuscular blockade...
March 2018: Neurotoxicology