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Venom from Loxosceles Spiders Collected in Southeastern and Northeastern Brazilian Regions Cause Hemotoxic Effects on Human Blood Components [PDF]

Toxins
Spiders of the genus Loxosceles represent a public health problem in Brazil due to the severity of the cutaneous and systemic effects that may result from their bite.
Rafaela Silva-Magalhães, Ayla Mel Gomes dos Santos, Ana Luiza Silva-Araújo, Pamella Luize Peres-Damásio, Valéria Gonçalves de Alvarenga, Luciana Souza de Oliveira, Eladio Flores Sanchez, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui, Luana Silveira da Rocha Nowicki Varela, Ana Luiza Bittencourt Paiva, Clara Guerra-Duarte   +10 more
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Recombinant Protein Containing B-Cell Epitopes of Different Loxosceles Spider Toxins Generates Neutralizing Antibodies in Immunized Rabbits [PDF]

Frontiers in Immunology, 2018
Loxoscelism is the most important form of araneism in South America. The treatment of these accidents uses heterologous antivenoms obtained from immunization of production animals with crude loxoscelic venom.
Sabrina de Almeida Lima, Clara Guerra-Duarte, Fernanda Costal-Oliveira, Thais Melo Mendes, Luís F. M. Figueiredo, Daysiane Oliveira, Ricardo A. Machado de Avila, Valéria Pereira Ferrer, Dilza Trevisan-Silva, Silvio S. Veiga, João C. Minozzo, Evanguedes Kalapothakis, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui   +12 more
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The sicariid spiders in the state of Bahia, Brazil (Arachnida: Araneae) [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Sicariidae is a small family of cryptic and recluse spiders, with 178 species grouped into three genera: Hexophtalma, Loxosceles and Sicarius.
Júlia Andrade-de-Sá, Tania Kobler Brazil, Rejâne Maria Lira-da-Silva, Antonio Domingos Brescovit   +3 more
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Histopathological characterization of experimentally induced cutaneous loxoscelism in rabbits inoculated with Loxosceles similis venom

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases, 2012
Envenomation by Loxosceles bites is characterized by dermonecrotic and/or systemic features that lead to several clinical signs and symptoms called loxoscelism. Dermonecrotic lesions are preceded by thrombosis of the dermal plexus.
Evanguedes Kalapothakis
exaly   +3 more sources

Whole venom of Loxosceles similis activates caspases-3, -6, -7, and -9 in human primary skin fibroblasts [PDF]

Toxicon, 2014
Dawidson Gomes, Evanguedes Kalapothakis, Anderson Oliveira do Carmo   +2 more
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Presença de Loxosceles similis Moenkhaus, 1898 (Araneae, Sicariidae) na Serra da Bodoquena, Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil Presence of Loxosceles similis Moenkhaus, 1898 (Araneae, Sicariidae) in Bodoquena Range, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2001
O veneno das aranhas do gênero Loxosceles causa lesão dermonecrótica e induz hemólise intravascular dependente de complemento, configurando um quadro clínico de intensa gravidade. No Brasil, as espécies L. gaucho L. intermedia e L.
Rute Maria Gonçalves de Andrade, Eunice Aparecida Bianchi Galati, Denise Vilarinho Tambourgi   +2 more
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Alien spiders: First record of Loxosceles gaucho Gertsch, 1967 (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Amazon region, Brazil [PDF]

Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
We present the first record for Loxosceles gaucho Gertsch, 1967 in the Amazonian region of Brazil. Four males, fifteen females and forty-nine immatures were collected in different places in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.
Marlus Queiroz Almeida, João Rafael Alves-Oliveira, Diego Matheus de Mello Mendes, Rafael Sobral, Alberto Moreira da Silva-Neto, José Wellington de Morais   +5 more
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The brown spider Loxosceles similis (Araneae: Sicariidae): complete mitochondrial genome sequence

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2019
The Brazilian brown spider Loxosceles similis (Moenkhaus, 1898) is, like others from the same genus, an arachnid that can cause serious accidents, which is called loxoscelism.
Yan Kalapothakis, Kelton Gonçalves Miranda, Adriana Heloísa Pereira, Susanne Facchin, Nazaré Lucio, Evanguedes Kalapothakis   +5 more
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OASIS® Wound Matrix versus Hyaloskin® in the treatment of difficult to heal wounds of mixed arterial/venous etiology

, 2007
International Wound Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 39-40, March 2007.
wiley   +1 more source

Successful management of deep facial burns in a patient with extensive third‐degree burns: the role of a nanocrystalline silver dressing in facilitating resurfacing

, 2007
International Wound Journal, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 40-41, March 2007.
wiley   +1 more source