A novel, non-invasive cnidarian venom extraction device
Toxicon: XCnidaria represent one of the most ancient venomous lineages with thousands of extant species and their toxins have long been known to signify a source of therapeutic potential. Despite this recognition, cnidarian toxin research has progressed relatively
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Marine Toxins Targeting Kv1 Channels: Pharmacological Tools and Therapeutic Scaffolds
Marine Drugs, 2020 Toxins from marine animals provide molecular tools for the study of many ion channels, including mammalian voltage-gated potassium channels of the Kv1 family.
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Journal of Biological ResearchCnidaria constitute an important phylum of venomous animals, several of which have a significant impact on human health and activities. Cnidarian venoms are included in a special capsule called nematocyst, and are known to consist of peptides, proteins ...
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Electrophysiological evaluation of the effect of peptide toxins on voltage-gated ion channels: a scoping review on theoretical and methodological aspects with focus on the Central and South American experience [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical DiseasesThe effect of peptide toxins on voltage-gated ion channels can be reliably assessed using electrophysiological assays, such as the patch-clamp technique.
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Jellyfish Stings Trigger Gill Disorders and Increased Mortality in Farmed Sparus aurata (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Mediterranean Sea. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Jellyfish are of particular concern for marine finfish aquaculture. In recent years repeated mass mortality episodes of farmed fish were caused by blooms of gelatinous cnidarian stingers, as a consequence of a wide range of hemolytic, cytotoxic, and ...
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Consequences of Stinging Plankton Blooms on Finfish Mariculture in the Mediterranean Sea
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 In recent years, caged finfish mariculture across European seas suffered production losses by severe fish mortality, following episodic outbreaks of invertebrate cnidarian stingers. Due to their stinging cells and injectable venoms, medusozoan jellyfish,
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Molecules, 2020 Cubozoan nematocyst venoms contain known cytolytic and hemolytic proteins, but small molecule components have not been previously reported from cubozoan venom.
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Evolution of an Ancient Venom: Recognition of a Novel Family of Cnidarian Toxins and the Common Evolutionary Origin of Sodium and Potassium Neurotoxins in Sea Anemone [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2015 Despite Cnidaria (sea anemones, corals, jellyfish, and hydroids) being the oldest venomous animal lineage, structure-function relationships, phyletic distributions, and the molecular evolutionary regimes of toxins encoded by these intriguing animals are poorly understood.
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Evolution and diversification of the cnidarian venom system [PDF]
, 2016 The phylum Cnidaria (corals, sea pens, sea anemones, jellyfish and hydroids) is the oldest venomous animal lineage (~750 million years old), making it an ideal phylum to understand the origin and diversification of venom. Cnidarians are characterised by specialised cellular structures called cnidae, which they utilise to inject mixtures of bioactive ...
Mahdokht Jouiaei
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Toxins, 2016 The Zoanthids are an order of cnidarians whose venoms and toxins have been poorly studied. Palythoa caribaeorum is a zoanthid commonly found around the Mexican coastline. In this study, we tested the activity of P.
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