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Bio- prospecting for medicinals: Cone Snails from the Philippines Reefs.

, 2022
An innovative tale of how marine science informed medical treatment of chronic and painful neurological disease. Baldomero Olivera is a Filipino molecular biologist known for discovery of diversity and medical translation of cone snail toxins important ...
Olivera, Baldomero
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Glycosylation of Conotoxins

Marine Drugs, 2013
Conotoxins are small peptides present in the venom of cone snails. The snail uses this venom to paralyze and capture prey. The constituent conopeptides display a high level of chemical diversity and are of particular interest for scientists as tools ...
Rolf Boelens, Johannis P. Kamerling, Reto Stöcklin, Henry G. Hocking, Gerrit J. Gerwig   +4 more
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Ecological and population characteristics of the seashell Conus princeps on the Pacific coast of central Mexico

Ciencias Marinas, 2019
Marine snails of the genus Conus have acquired remarkable biomedical importance because of the high number of toxins they produce for feeding and self-defense.
Jesus Emilio Michel-Morfín, Gilberto A Medina-Vargas, Víctor Landa-Jaime, Judith Arciniega-Flores, Manuel B Aguilar, Edgar P Heimer de la Cotera   +5 more
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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, Cheng Li, Shuai Dong, Yong Wu, Dongting Zhangsun, Sulan Luo   +5 more
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Identification of sodium channel toxins from marine cone snails of the subgenera Textilia and Afonsoconus. [PDF]

Cell Mol Life Sci, 2023
McMahon KL, O'Brien H, Schroeder CI, Deuis JR, Venkatachalam D, Huang D, Green BR, Bandyopadhyay PK, Li Q, Yandell M, Safavi-Hemami H, Olivera BM, Vetter I, Robinson SD.   +13 more
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Synthesis and Biological Activity of Novel α-Conotoxins Derived from Endemic Polynesian Cone Snails. [PDF]

Mar Drugs, 2023
Souf YM, Lokaj G, Kuruva V, Saed Y, Raviglione D, Brik A, Nicke A, Inguimbert N, Dutertre S.   +8 more
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POSTERS OF SUGAR & SNAILS PRESS

, 2016
This record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete.
Sugar & Snails Press Co-Operative Ltd
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The introduction of marine cone snail species from the coast of the Qeshm Island, contains conotoxin palliative pain in mice [PDF]

بوم‌شناسی آبزیان, 2019
Conotoxins are small toxic peptides that are synthesized in cone snail venom ducts. Conotoxins have analgesic effects in models animal. In this study, the analgesic effects with no toxicity of Persian Gulf cone snails, Conus coronatus, and Conus frigidus
Halimeh Rajabi, Hossein Zolgharnen, Mohammad Taghi Ronagh, Ahmad Savari, Mohammad Sharif Ranjbar   +4 more
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Somatostatin venom analogs evolved by fish-hunting cone snails: From prey capture behavior to identifying drug leads. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2022
Ramiro IBL, Bjørn-Yoshimoto WE, Imperial JS, Gajewiak J, Salcedo PF, Watkins M, Taylor D, Resager W, Ueberheide B, Bräuner-Osborne H, Whitby FG, Hill CP, Martin LF, Patwardhan A, Concepcion GP, Olivera BM, Safavi-Hemami H.   +16 more
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A phylogeny-aware approach reveals unexpected venom components in divergent lineages of cone snails. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2021
Fedosov A, Zaharias P, Puillandre N.
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