Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019 INTRODUCTION: The popular names “surucucu” and “jararaca” have been used in literature for Lachesis muta and Bothrops atrox snakes, respectively.
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Comparative gender peptidomics of Bothrops atrox venoms: are there differences between them? [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2020 Background: Bothrops atrox is known to be the pit viper responsible for most snakebites and human fatalities in the Amazon region. It can be found in a wide geographical area including northern South America, the east of Andes and the Amazon basin ...
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CCL-2 and CXCL-8: Potential Prognostic Biomarkers of Acute Kidney Injury after a Bothrops atrox Snakebite [PDF]
Mediators of Inflammation, 2022 In the Brazilian Amazon, the snake Bothrops atrox is the primary cause of snakebites. B. atrox (BaV) venom can cause systemic pathophysiological changes such as acute kidney injury (AKI), which leads to the production of chemokines and cytokines in ...
Juliana Costa Ferreira Neves +11 more
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Bleeding Disorders in Bothrops atrox Envenomations in the Brazilian Amazon: Participation of Hemostatic Factors and the Impact of Tissue Factor [PDF]
Toxins, 2020 Bleeding is a common hemostatic disorder that occurs in Bothrops envenomations. We evaluated the changes in coagulation, fibrinolysis components, and platelets in Bothrops atrox envenomations with bleeding. This is an observational study with B.
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Bothrops atrox, the most important snake involved in human envenomings in the amazon: How venomics contributes to the knowledge of snake biology and clinical toxinology [PDF]
Toxicon: X, 2020 Bothrops atrox snakes are mostly endemic of the Amazon rainforest and is certainly the South American pit viper responsible for most of the snakebites in the region. The composition of B.
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Neutralizing capacity of a new monovalent anti-Bothrops atrox antivenom: comparison with two commercial antivenoms [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 1997 Three horse-derived antivenoms were tested for their ability to neutralize lethal, hemorrhagic, edema-forming, defibrinating and myotoxic activities induced by the venom of Bothrops atrox from Antioquia and Chocó (Colombia). The following antivenoms were
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Experimental Bothrops atrox Envenomation: Blood Plasma Proteome Effects after Local Tissue Damage and Perspectives on Thromboinflammation [PDF]
Toxins, 2022 The clinical manifestations of Bothrops atrox envenoming involve local and systemic changes, among which edema requires substantial attention due to its ability to progress to compartmental syndromes and sometimes cause tissue loss and amputations ...
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Two related thrombin-like enzymes present in Bothrops atrox venom
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2000 This article describes the presence of two new forms of a thrombin-like enzyme, both with apparent molecular masses of 38 kDa, in Bothrops atrox venom. Both share the ability to cleave fibrinogen into fibrin and to digest casein.
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Acute toxic effects of Bothrops atrox venom on calcium homeostasis and bone tissue in mice [PDF]
Toxicon: XBothrops atrox is a terrestrial pit viper inhabiting the Amazon region. The venom of B. atrox acts almost immediately at the site of the bite, leading to significant tissue damage, but also affects different organs.
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Acute compartment syndrome in Bothrops atrox envenomation: a case-control study in the Brazilian Amazon [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical DiseasesBackground: Bothrops snakebite is common in the Amazon region and can lead to severe complications in the affected limb, including secondary bacterial infections, blisters, necrosis, and acute compartment syndrome (ACS) in extreme cases.
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