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Reports, 2020 Snakebite envenomations are classified as Category A Neglected Tropical Diseases by the World Health Organization. In Brazil, 405 snake species are distributed among 11 families, with the genera Bothrops and Crotalus being the most studied and main ...
Jilvando M. Medeiros +6 more
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Electrical field-induced contractions on Crotalus durissus terrificus and Bothrops jararaca aortae are caused by endothelium-derived catecholamine. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Endothelium is the main source of catecholamine release in the electrical-field stimulation (EFS)-induced aortic contractions of the non- venomous snake Panterophis guttatus.
Rafael Campos +7 more
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Guidelines for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of snakebite envenoming of ruminants in Brazil [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2022 : In Brazil, snakebites are often cited as a cause of mortality in ruminants, but there are discrepancies in the literature regarding its actual prevalence, either by lack of diagnosis or by mistakes in the differential diagnosis.
Flávio A.S. Graça +7 more
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Animal Biotelemetry, 2023 Background Many snakes are low-energy predators that use crypsis to ambush their prey. Most of these species feed very infrequently, are sensitive to the presence of larger vertebrates, such as humans, and spend large portions of their lifetime hidden ...
Ryan J. Hanscom +8 more
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1995 Thirty-two patients bitten by venomous snakes sixteen by Bothrops spp. and sixteen by Crotalus durissus terrificus were studied. The group comprised thirty males and two females, aged eight to sixty-three years (mean 33±15).
Benedito Barra Viera +3 more
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Snake venoms and purified toxins as biotechnological tools to control Ralstonia solanacearum [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2020 : The objective of this work was to evaluate the in vitro antibacterial activity of snake venoms and purified toxins on the phytopathogenic bacterium Ralstonia solanacearum.
Rita de Cássia Alves +13 more
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Body size evolution in insular speckled rattlesnakes (Viperidae : Crotalus mitchellii) [PDF]
, 2010 Background Speckled rattlesnakes (Crotalus mitchellii) inhabit multiple islands off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. Two of the 14 known insular populations have been recognized as subspecies based primarily on body size divergence from putative ...
Meik, Jesse M. +8 more
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, 2010 We developed novel microsatellite markers for the Crotalus atrox and Crotalus scutulatus species of rattlesnake for future use in population studies. We identified 20 loci from Crotalus atrox and 12 from Crotalus scutulatus to test for amplification and ...
Bryan, Debra S.
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Snake Venom Hemotoxic Enzymes: Biochemical Comparison between Crotalus Species from Central Mexico
Molecules, 2019 Snakebite envenoming is a serious medical problem in different areas of the world. In Latin America, the major prevalence is due to snakes of the family Viperidae, where rattlesnakes (Crotalus) are included.
Octavio Roldán-Padrón +7 more
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