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This collection consists of a letter written by Byron Cone while he was serving with the 20th Iowa ...
Cone, Byron D., 1831-1909
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PLoS ONECrude cone snail venom is a rich source of bioactive compounds with significant therapeutic potential. In this study, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of 5,985 cone snail peptides across 82 Conus species to identify unique cysteine (Cys) patterns ...
Rimsha Bibi, Noshaba Qasmi, Sajid Rashid
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Discovery Methodology of Novel Conotoxins from Conus Species
Marine Drugs, 2018 Cone snail venoms provide an ideal resource for neuropharmacological tools and drug candidates discovery, which have become a research hotspot in neuroscience and new drug development. More than 1,000,000 natural peptides are produced by cone snails, but
Ying Fu +5 more
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Bioactive Mimetics of Conotoxins and other Venom Peptides
Toxins, 2015 Ziconotide (Prialt®), a synthetic version of the peptide ω-conotoxin MVIIA found in the venom of a fish-hunting marine cone snail Conus magnus, is one of very few drugs effective in the treatment of intractable chronic pain. However, its intrathecal mode
Peter J. Duggan, Kellie L. Tuck
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In the picture: disulfide-poor conopeptides, a class of pharmacologically interesting compounds
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2016 During evolution, nature has embraced different strategies for species to survive. One strategy, applied by predators as diverse as snakes, scorpions, sea anemones and cone snails, is using venom to immobilize or kill a prey.
Eline K. M. Lebbe, Jan Tytgat
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Locality and causality properties of light cone string field theory [PDF]
, 2004 The recent discovery of a new maximally supersymmetric background for the type IIB superstring theory has revived the interest in light cone string field theory.
Kyritisis, Konstantinos
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Cone snail venomics: From novel biology to novel therapeutics
, 2014 Peptide neurotoxins from cone snails called conotoxins are renowned for their therapeutic potential to treat pain and several neurodegenerative diseases.
Lewis, Richard J. +10 more
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Aquatic Invasions! A Menace to the West : On the Trail of a Snail
Students pretend to be “invasion investigators” and investigate the appearance of a mysterious new snail in their local creek. Student research the identity and ecology of this new mysterious snail, and design experiments to understand its impact ...
Siemens, Tania
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Identification of “alpha-conotoxin-like” Peptide in Conus pennaceus Born, 1778, Venom [PDF]
بومشناسی آبزیان, 2018 Conic snails are slow-moving carnivorous that use a very powerful venom to hunt. This venom is a combination of different toxins from the family of conototoxins.
Hadi Dehghani +4 more
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