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Aligning Post-Column ESI-MS, MALDI-MS, and Coagulation Bioassay Data of Naja spp., Ophiophagus hannah, and Pseudonaja textillis Venoms Chromatographically to Assess MALDI-MS and ESI-MS Complementarity with Correlation of Bioactive Toxins to Mass Spectrometric Data

Toxins
Snakebite is a serious health issue in tropical and subtropical areas of the world and results in various pathologies, such as hemotoxicity, neurotoxicity, and local swelling, blistering, and tissue necrosis around the bite site.
Haifeng Xu, Susan El-Asal, Hafsa Zakri, Rama Mutlaq, Natascha T. B. Krikke, Nicholas R. Casewell, Julien Slagboom, Jeroen Kool   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anti-inflammatory peptides and proteins from venomous snakes: a short review

Journal of Biological Research
Inflammation can be acute or chronic. Chronic inflammation is a condition associated with several diseases like cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disorders, and even cancer.
Fernando Lazcano-Pérez, Adrián Marcelo Franco-Vásquez, Ayetza Mathob Rodríguez-García, Roberto Arreguin-Espinosa   +3 more
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Rapid Radiations and the Race to Redundancy: An Investigation of the Evolution of Australian Elapid Snake Venoms [PDF]

, 2016
Timothy Jackson, Ivan Koludarov, Syed Abid Ali, James Dobson, Christina N. Zdenek, Daniel Dashevsky, Bianca op den Brouw, Paul P. Masci, Amanda Nouwens, Peter Josh, Jonathan Goldenberg, Vittoria Cipriani, Chris Hay, Iwan Hendrikx, Nathan Dunstan, Luke Allen, Bryan G. Fry   +16 more
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Preclinical Immuno-recognition and Neutralization of Lethality Assessment of a New Polyvalent Antivenom, VINS Snake Venom Antiserum – African IHS®, against Envenomation of Ten African Viperid and Elapid Snakes

, 2021
Georgina Isabella Djameh, Samuel Badu Nyarko, Mark Tetteh-Tsifoanya, Frances M. Marfo, Samuel Adjei, Emmanuel Awusah Blay, Abraham K. Anang, Irène Ayi   +7 more
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Assessing the Binding of Venoms from Aquatic Elapids to the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Orthosteric Site of Different Prey Models [PDF]

, 2020
Richard J. Harris, Nicholas J. Youngman, Christina N. Zdenek, Tam M. Huynh, Amanda Nouwens, Wayne C. Hodgson, David Harrich, Nathan Dunstan, José A. Portes-Junior, Bryan G. Fry   +9 more
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Cost-effectiveness of antivenoms for snakebite envenoming in 16 countries in West Africa [PDF]

, 2016
Background Snakebite poisoning is a significant medical problem in agricultural societies in Sub Saharan Africa. Antivenom (AV) is the standard treatment, and we assessed the cost-effectiveness of making it available in 16 countries in West Africa ...
Chippaux, Jean-Philippe, Habib, A. G., Hamza, M., Idris, M. A., Kuznik, A., Lamorde, M., Maiyaki, M. B., Warrell, D. A.   +7 more
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A 140-year-old specimen from the southern Trans-Fly region of Papua New Guinea proves that the Eastern Brownsnake, Pseudonaja textilis, was not a wartime or post-war introduction (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) [PDF]

, 2016
: The medically important Australian elapid Pseudonaja textilis was first documented for the island of New Guinea in the 1950s, when specimens from the northern coast of the Papuan Peninsula were collected and identified.
Doria, Giuliano, Kaiser, Hinrich, O'Shea, Mark, Petri, Massimo   +3 more
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The in vitro Neurotoxic and Myotoxic Effects of the Venom from the Suta Genus (Curl Snakes) of Elapid Snakes [PDF]

, 2007
Sanjaya Kuruppu, Stephanie A. Robinson, Wayne C. Hodgson, Bryan G. Fry   +3 more
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Optimizing drug discovery for snakebite envenoming via a high-throughput phospholipase A2 screening platform

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that causes as many as 1.8 million envenomings and 140,000 deaths annually. To address treatment limitations that exist with current antivenoms, the search for small molecule drug-based inhibitors that
Laura-Oana Albulescu, Laura-Oana Albulescu, Adam Westhorpe, Adam Westhorpe, Rachel H. Clare, Rachel H. Clare, Christopher M. Woodley, Nivya James, Jeroen Kool, Neil G. Berry, Paul M. O’Neill, Nicholas R. Casewell, Nicholas R. Casewell   +12 more
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Nanotechnology-based paper microfluidics for rapid point-of-care detection and differentiation of snake venom types

Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X
Snake envenomation is recognized as a neglected tropical disease, contributing to high mortality rates and causing significant organ damage, particularly to the liver, kidneys, and brain.
Lakshmi Narashimhan Ramana, Nitin Salvi, M.V. Khadilkar, Tarun Kumar Sharma   +3 more
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