Cnidarians as a Source of New Marine Bioactive Compounds—An Overview of the Last Decade and Future Steps for Bioprospecting [PDF]
, 2011 Marine invertebrates are rich sources of bioactive compounds and their biotechnological potential attracts scientific and economic interest worldwide. Although sponges are the foremost providers of marine bioactive compounds, cnidarians are also being ...
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Blue angels have devil hands: Predatory behavior using cerata in Glaucus atlanticus
Ecology, Volume 106, Issue 3, March 2025.
Gaku Yamamoto +3 more
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THERAPEUTICS APPROACHES OF INVERTEBRATE ANIMAL TOXINS: A REVIEW [PDF]
, 2022 The present review article describes invertebrate venoms and various toxins secreted by them. Animal venoms are stores of novel peptides which exhibit a wide variety of biological effects and actively interact with pathogen and parasites.
SHARMA, SIMRAN, UPADHYAY, RAVI KANT
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Evidence of cytotoxic activity against mammalian red blood cell of Na+ channel neurotoxin (AE1) from sea anemone (actinia equina) [PDF]
, 2016 The diversification of anthozoan toxins played an important role in the ability to colonize various ecological niches. In this study we evaluated the hemolytic activity of HPLC separated fraction of tentacle extracts of sea anemone Actinia equina.
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Protease inhibitors from marine venomous animals and their counterparts in terrestrial venomous animals [PDF]
, 2013 The Kunitz-type protease inhibitors are the best-characterized family of serine protease inhibitors, probably due to their abundance in several organisms.
Mourão, Caroline Barbosa Farias +1 more
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Grouped vesicles from the Middle East
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 212-217, February 2025.
Kaaja Mareile Baaske +2 more
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Conserved domains and evolution of secreted phospholipases A2 [PDF]
, 2012 Secreted phospholipases A2 (sPLA2s) are lipolytic enzymes present in organisms ranging from prokaryotes to eukaryotes but their origin and emergence are poorly understood.
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Friends or Foes? Emerging Impacts of Biological Toxins [PDF]
, 2019 Toxins are substances produced from biological sources (e.g., animal, plants, microorganisms) that have deleterious effects on a living organism. Despite the obvious health concerns of being exposed to toxins, they are having substantial positive impacts
Casewell, N.R. +6 more
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Upside-Down but Headed in the Right Direction: Review of the Highly Versatile Cassiopea xamachana System [PDF]
, 2018 The upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) has been predominantly studied to understand its interaction with the endosymbiotic dinoflagellate algae Symbiodinium. As an easily culturable and tractable cnidarian model, it is an
Abrams, Michael J., Ohdera, Aki H.
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Horizontal transfer of a natterin-like toxin encoding gene within the holobiont of the reef building coral Acropora digitifera (Cnidaria:Anthozoa: Scleractinia) and across multiple animal linages [PDF]
, 2020 Phylogenetic evidence is provided for horizontal transfer of a natterin-like toxin encoding gene from fungi into the genome of the coral Acropora digitifera.
Bourne, David G. +3 more
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