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Fast venomic analysis of Crotalus durissus terrificus from northeastern Argentina [PDF]

Toxicon: X, 2020
The complete knowledge of the toxins that make up venoms is the base for the treatment of snake accidents victims and the selection of specimens for the preparation of venom pools for antivenom production. In this work, we used a fast and direct venomics
Luciano S. Fusco, Emidio B. Neto, Aleff F. Francisco, Jorge Alfonso, Andreimar Soares, Daniel C. Pimenta, Laura C. Leiva   +6 more
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Antineoplastic properties and pharmacological applications of Crotalus durissus terrificus snake venom [PDF]

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2022
Snake toxins are widely studied owing to their importance in snakebite accidents, a serious public health issue in tropical countries, and their broad therapeutic potential.
Brunna Fernanda Arraez Alves, Rui Seabra Ferreira Jr   +1 more
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The Evolutionary Implications of Hemipenial Morphology of Rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus (Laurent, 1768) (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Most amniotes vertebrates have an intromittent organ to deliver semen. The reptile Sphenodon and most birds lost the ancestral penis and developed a cloaca-cloaca mating.
Marcovan Porto, Marco Antonio de Oliveira, Lorenzo Pissinatti, Renata Lopes Rodrigues, Julio Alejandro Rojas-Moscoso, José Carlos Cogo, Konradin Metze, Edson Antunes, César Nahoum, Fabíola Z Mónica, Gilberto De Nucci   +10 more
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Multiple effects of toxins isolated from Crotalus durissus terrificus on the hepatitis C virus life cycle. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2017
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the main causes of liver disease and transplantation worldwide. Current therapy is expensive, presents additional side effects and viral resistance has been described.
Shimizu JF, Pereira CM, Bittar C, Batista MN, Campos GRF, da Silva S, Cintra ACO, Zothner C, Harris M, Sampaio SV, Aquino VH, Rahal P, Jardim ACG.   +12 more
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Bioaffinity Fishing Procedure Using Secretory Phospholipase A2 for Screening for Bioactive Components: Modulation of Pharmacological Effect Induced by sPLA2 from Crotalus durissus terrificus by Hispidulin from Moquiniastrum floribundum [PDF]

Molecules, 2020
Bioaffinity capturing of molecules allows the discovery of bioactive compounds and decreases the need for various stages in the natural compound isolation process.
Adeilso Bispo dos Santos Junior, Cinthia I. Tamayose, Marcelo J. P. Ferreira, Mariana N. Belchor, Caroline R. C. Costa, Marcos Antonio de Oliveira, Marcos Hikari Toyama   +6 more
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In Silico Evaluation of Quercetin Methylated Derivatives on the Interaction with Secretory Phospholipases A2 from Crotalus durissus terrificus and Bothrops jararacussu [PDF]

Pharmaceuticals, 2023
Quercetin derivatives have already shown their anti-inflammatory potential, inhibiting essential enzymes involved in this process. Among diverse pro-inflammatory toxins from snake venoms, phospholipase A2 is one of the most abundant in some species, such
Mariana Novo Belchor, Caroline Ramos da Cruz Costa, Airam Roggero, Laila L. F. Moraes, Ricardo Samelo, Isabelly Annunciato, Marcos Antonio de Oliveira, Sergio F. Sousa, Marcos Hikari Toyama   +8 more
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Biochemical comparison of venoms from young Colombian Crotalus durissus cumanensis and their parents [PDF]

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2010
Crotalus durissus cumanensis, a rattlesnake endemic to Colombia and Venezuela, is considered one of the most lethal snake species in Latin America. The aim of the present study was to compare the protein content and biological activity of the venom ...
N Céspedes, F Castro, E Jiménez, L Montealegre, A Castellanos, CA Cañas, M Arévalo-Herrera, S Herrera   +7 more
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Tetrodotoxin-insensitive electrical field stimulation-induced contractions on Crotalus durissus terrificus corpus cavernosum. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2017
FAPESP - FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULOCNPQ – CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICOReptiles are the first amniotes to develop an intromitent penis, however until now the mechanisms involved in the electrical ...
Campos R, Mónica FZ, Rodrigues RL, Rojas-Moscoso JA, Moreno RA, Cogo JC, de Oliveira MA, Antunes E, De Nucci G.   +8 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

In vitro evaluation of copaiba oil as a kojic acid skin enhancer [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2010
The capacity of copaíba oil to act as a skin penetration enhancer for the depigmenting agent kojic acid was evaluated using an in vitro diffusion system with static flux and shed rattlesnake skin membrane, Crotalus durissus terrificus, in saline solution
Robson Vicente Machado de Oliveira, Mitsuko Taba Ohara, Marta Maria Duarte Carvalho Vila, Marcos Moisés Gonçalves   +3 more
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Cross-neutralization of the coagulant activity of Crotalus durissus terrificus venom from the northeast of Argentina by bivalent bothropic antivenom [PDF]

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2012
Cross-neutralization of Crotalus durissus terrificus venom coagulant activity was tested using bivalent horse antivenom against Bothrops alternatus and Bothrops diporus venoms.
JP Rodríguez, CC Gay, LS Fusco, MC Gauna, OC Acosta, LC Leiva   +5 more
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