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No room to roam: King Cobras reduce movement in agriculture

Movement Ecology, 2020
Background Studying animal movement provides insights into how animals react to land-use changes. As agriculture expands, we can use animal movement to examine how animals change their behaviour in response.
Benjamin Michael Marshall, Matt Crane, Inês Silva, Colin Thomas Strine, Max Dolton Jones, Cameron Wesley Hodges, Pongthep Suwanwaree, Taksin Artchawakom, Surachit Waengsothorn, Matt Goode   +9 more
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Profiling the Murine Acute Phase and Inflammatory Responses to African Snake Venom: An Approach to Inform Acute Snakebite Pathology

Toxins, 2022
Snake envenoming causes rapid systemic and local effects that often result in fatal or long-term disability outcomes. It seems likely that acute phase and inflammatory responses contribute to these haemorrhagic, coagulopathic, neurotoxic, nephrotoxic and
Jaffer Alsolaiss, Chloe A. Evans, George O. Oluoch, Nicholas R. Casewell, Robert A. Harrison   +4 more
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Porocephalus species (Pentastomida) infecting Boa constrictor (Boidae) and Lachesis muta (Viperidae) in northeastern Brazil

Biotemas, 2008
Espécies de Porocephalus (Pentastomida) infectando Boa constrictor (Boidae) e Lachesis muta (Viperidae) na Região Nordeste do Brasil.  O Brasil possui uma grande diversidade de cobras, mas há poucos trabalhos realizados sobre parasitismo destas por ...
Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida, Felipe Silva Ferreira, Miriam Camargo Guarnieri, Samuel Vieira Brito   +3 more
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cobra

, 2023
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O papel da Educação Ambiental na percepção de alunos da Zona Rural sobre serpentes

Cadernos Cajuína
As serpentes são frequentemente associadas a perigo e riscos de acidentes com humanos, o que desperta sentimentos negativos nas pessoas. Embora sejam importantes em estudos farmacológicos e de saúde pública, podem não ser essenciais para o currículo do ...
Alerandro Soares da Silva, Ricardo Silva de Santana, Ana Carolina Marcondes, Adriano Soares da Silva, Mateus Lima Dutra, Élida Francisco da Silva, Suzana Silva da Nóbrega, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França   +7 more
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How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting

Toxins, 2017
The cytotoxicity of the venom of 25 species of Old World elapid snake was tested and compared with the morphological and behavioural adaptations of hooding and spitting. We determined that, contrary to previous assumptions, the venoms of spitting species
Nadya Panagides, Timothy N.W. Jackson, Maria P. Ikonomopoulou, Kevin Arbuckle, Rudolf Pretzler, Daryl C. Yang, Syed A. Ali, Ivan Koludarov, James Dobson, Brittany Sanker, Angelique Asselin, Renan C. Santana, Iwan Hendrikx, Harold van der Ploeg, Jeremie Tai-A-Pin, Romilly van den Bergh, Harald M.I. Kerkkamp, Freek J. Vonk, Arno Naude, Morné A. Strydom, Louis Jacobsz, Nathan Dunstan, Marc Jaeger, Wayne C. Hodgson, John Miles, Bryan G. Fry   +25 more
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Aspectos epidemiológicos dos acidentes ofídicos ocorridos no Estado de Roraima, Brasil, entre 1992 e 1998 Epidemiological characteristics of snakebites in the State of Roraima, Brazil, 1992-1998

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2000
O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo relativo a acidentes ofídicos ocorridos em oito municípios do Estado de Roraima entre 1992 e 1998. Trezentas e nove (309) fichas de registro de acidentes por serpentes peçonhentas foram descritas por localidade e ...
Sebastião Pereira do Nascimento
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Distinctive Distribution of Secretory Phospholipases A₂ in the Venoms of Afro-Asian Cobras (Subgenus: Naja, Afronaja, Boulengerina and Uraeus)

Toxins, 2019
The protein abundances of phospholipases A2 in cobra venom proteomes appear to vary among cobra species. To determine the unique distribution of snake venom phospholipases A2 (svPLA2) in the cobras, the svPLA2 activities for 15 cobra species were ...
Choo Hock Tan, Kin Ying Wong, Nget Hong Tan, Tzu Shan Ng, Kae Yi Tan   +4 more
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Mad, bad and dangerous to know: the biochemistry, ecology and evolution of slow loris venom

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2013
Only seven types of mammals are known to be venomous, including slow lorises (Nycticebus spp.). Despite the evolutionary significance of this unique adaptation amongst Nycticebus, the structure and function of slow loris venom is only just beginning to ...
K Anne-Isola Nekaris, Richard S Moore, E Johanna Rode, Bryan G Fry   +3 more
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Acidentes por animais peçonhentos

Medicina, 2003
São abordados aspectos da fisiopatologia, clínica e terapêutica dos envenenamentos humanos, causados por serpentes peçonhentas dos gêneros Bothrops, Crotalus e Micrurus, que ocorrem no sudeste do Brasil.
Marisa M. Azevedo-Marques, Palmira Cupo, Sylvia Evelyn Hering   +2 more
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