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Delayed Onset of Symptoms After a Rattlesnake Bite in a Renal Transplant Patient: A Case Report
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2023 Introduction: The United States is home to two major families of venomous snakes, Crotalids and Elapids. The Crotalid family, also known as pit vipers, is well known for being among the most frequent causes of snakebites reported.
Thomas A. Rogers, John Herrick
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New environment, new invaders - repeated horizontal transfer of LINEs to sea snakes [PDF]
, 2020 While numerous studies have found horizontal transposon transfer (HTT) to be widespread across metazoans, few have focused on HTT in marine ecosystems. To investigate potential recent HTTs into marine species we searched for novel repetitive elements in ...
Adelson, David L., +14 more
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Cytotoxicity of Southeast Asian snake venoms
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2012 Cytotoxicity of venoms from eleven medically important snakes found in Southeast Asia (Naja kaouthia, Naja siamensis, Naja sumatrana, Ophiophagus hannah, Bungarus candidus, Bungarus fasciatus, Enhydrina schistosa, Calloselasma rhodostoma, Trimeresurus ...
A Jamunaa +4 more
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Molecular evidence for the first records of facultative parthenogenesis in elapid snakes [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction by which embryos develop from unfertilized eggs. Parthenogenesis occurs in reptiles; however, it is not yet known to occur in the widespread elapid snakes (Elapidae), which include well-known taxa such as
L. Allen +2 more
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Toxins, 2021 The genus Calliophis is the most basal branch of the family Elapidae and several species in it have developed highly elongated venom glands. Recent research has shown that C.
Daniel Dashevsky +4 more
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Toxins, 2020 Prey-selective venoms and toxins have been documented across only a few species of snakes. The lack of research in this area has been due to the absence of suitably flexible testing platforms.
Richard J. Harris +4 more
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ToxinsSnakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease, responsible for approximately 140,000 deaths globally each year. Vipers and elapid snakes represent the most significant snake families in medical contexts, exhibiting a variety of venom components ...
Mahtab Khatibi +6 more
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File_2: Size data for elapids (Excel)
, 2015 Average and maximum body lengths for elapids, with literature sources, in Excel ...
Palci, Alessandro +7 more
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Novel vascular plexus in the head of a sea snake (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) revealed by high-resolution computed tomography and histology [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Novel phenotypes are often linked to major ecological transitions during evolution. Here, we describe for the first time an unusual network of large blood vessels in the head of the sea snake Hydrophis cyanocinctus.
Alessandro Palci +5 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2023 Introduction: Most elapid snakes produce venoms that contain alpha-neurotoxins (α-NTXs), which are proteins that cause post-synaptic blockade and paralysis in snakebite envenoming.
Yi Wei Chan +3 more
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