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Animal Venoms and Their Components: Molecular Mechanisms of Action

open access: yes, 2021
Animal venoms comprise numerous toxin families, consisting mainly of peptides and proteins [...
Yuri Utkin
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Jellyfish Stings Trigger Gill Disorders and Increased Mortality in Farmed Sparus aurata (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Mediterranean Sea.

open access: yesPLoS 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 ...
Mar Bosch-Belmar   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grouped vesicles from the Middle East

open access: yes
JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 212-217, February 2025.
Kaaja Mareile Baaske   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biological Effects of Animal Venoms on the Human Immune System

open access: yes, 2022
Venoms are products of specialized glands and serve many living organisms to immobilize and kill prey, start digestive processes and act as a defense mechanism.
Cañas, Carlos A.   +9 more
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Peptide Toxins in Solitary Wasp Venoms

open access: yes, 2016
Solitary wasps paralyze insects or spiders with stinging venom and feed the paralyzed preys to their larva. Accordingly, the venoms should contain a variety of constituents acting on nervous systems.
Kohei Kazuma   +2 more
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Differential effects of marimastat and prinomastat on the metalloprotease activity of various snake venoms

open access: yes
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease, responsible for approximately 140,000 deaths globally each year. Vipers and elapid snakes represent the most significant snake families in medical contexts, exhibiting a variety of venom components ...
Ramírez, David   +13 more
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Venoms and medicinal properties of cnidarians

open access: yesIranian South Medical Journal, 2015
Marine organisms are rich sources of bioactive compounds and their biotechnological potential attracted the attention to biologists and chemists all over the world. During the first decade of the 21st century alone, over 2000 molecules from cnidarians were described.
openaire   +1 more source

Consolidation of venom proteomes from major Cnidarian species (Scyphozoa and Cubozoa) obtained using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

open access: yesToxicon
Jellyfish envenomation is a significant cause of marine injuries and fatalities. Species under Scyphozoa and Cubozoa can trigger life-threatening effects upon envenomation. Despite the severity of these incidents, treatment options remain very limited.
Shi Yuin Chong   +3 more
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Chemical and Biological Characteristics of Antimicrobial α-Helical Peptides Found in Solitary Wasp Venoms and Their Interactions with Model Membranes

open access: yes, 2019
Solitary wasps use their stinging venoms for paralyzing insect or spider prey and feeding them to their larvae. We have surveyed bioactive substances in solitary wasp venoms, and found antimicrobial peptides together with some other bioactive peptides ...
Marcia Perez dos Santos Cabrera   +7 more
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Bite First, Bleed Later: How Philippine Trimeresurus Pit Viper Venoms Hijack Blood Clotting

open access: yes
The Philippines has a high diversity of venomous snake species, but there is minimal information on their envenomation effects. This is evidenced by the small number of case reports, the poor reporting of envenomation cases, and the absence of specific ...
Daniel Albert E. Castillo   +4 more
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