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Highlights in the knowledge of brown spider toxins [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2017 Brown spiders are venomous arthropods that use their venom for predation and defense. In humans, bites of these animals provoke injuries including dermonecrosis with gravitational spread of lesions, hematological abnormalities and impaired renal function.
Daniele Chaves-Moreira +5 more
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Brown Spider (Loxosceles genus) Venom Toxins: Tools for Biological Purposes
Toxins, 2011 Venomous animals use their venoms as tools for defense or predation. These venoms are complex mixtures, mainly enriched of proteic toxins or peptides with several, and different, biological activities.
Andrea Senff-Ribeiro +11 more
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Insights into brown spider and loxoscelism [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2005 Loxosceles is a genus of cosmopolitan spiders comprising several species, and popularly knownas brown spiders or brown recluses. Brown spider bites can cause dermonecrotic lesions andsystemic reactions known as loxoscelism.
MH Appel +3 more
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Brown Recluse Spider Bites [PDF]
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2000 Brown recluse spider bites are a serious medical problem in the southeastern United States. Although most bites are asymptomatic, envenomation can result in a constellation of systemic symptoms referred to as loxoscelism. Patients can also develop necrotic skin ulcers (necrotic arachnidism). These ulcers are often difficult to heal and can require skin
H H, Sams, L E, King
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Brown Recluse spider bite mediated hemolysis: clinical features, a possible role for complement inhibitor therapy, and reduced RBC surface glycophorin A as a potential biomarker of venom exposure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The venom of Loxosceles reclusa (Brown Recluse spider) can cause a severe, life-threatening hemolysis in humans for which no therapy is currently available in the USA beyond supportive measures.
Eric A Gehrie, Hui Nian, Pampee P Young
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Brown Recluse Spider, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch and Mulaik (Arachnida: Araneae: Sicariidae)
EDIS, 2005 The brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch & Mulaik, is frequently reported in Florida as a cause of necrotic lesions in humans. For example, in the year 2000 alone, Loft (2001) reported that the Florida Poison Control Network had recorded ...
Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.
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Preparation and validation of a systemic loxoscelism prediction protocol
Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2020 Introduction: Systemic loxoscelism is the most severe complication of loxoscelism. The management of the cadre by health personnel presents a high variability due to factors that are currently unknown.
Rafael Pichardo-Rodriguez +3 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022 Loxosceles spp. (brown spiders) bites are responsible for the development of a syndrome consisting mainly of dermonecrotic lesions, and also systemic effects.
Ana Luísa Soares de Miranda +7 more
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Brown Spider Venom Phospholipase-D Activity upon Different Lipid Substrates
Toxins, 2023 Brown spider envenomation results in dermonecrosis, characterized by an intense inflammatory reaction. The principal toxins of brown spider venoms are phospholipase-D isoforms, which interact with different cellular membrane components, degrade ...
Daniele Chaves-Moreira +9 more
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Clinical Case Reports, 2023 Key Clinical Message Clinicians should be aware of the occurrence of deep vein thrombosis following brown recluse spider bite.
Arihant Surana +6 more
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