Scorpion sting and hypertensive crisis
BACKGROUND Scorpion stings are very frequent in Centre-South America. The most frequently observed clinical symptoms are: local pain and redness, tachycardia, irritability, hypertensive crisis; but it differs with the scorpion species involved.
C. Ratti +5 more
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VISTAS Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Emerging Research on Education, Economy and Community [PDF]
s of presentations given at the VISTAS Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Emerging Research on Education, Economy and ...
Roberts, Stephen
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Structural similarities reveal an expansive conotoxin family with a two‐finger toxin fold
Abstract Venomous animals have evolved a diverse repertoire of toxins with considerable pharmaceutical potential. The rapid evolution of peptide toxins, such as the conotoxins produced by venomous marine cone snails, often complicates efforts to infer their evolutionary relationships based solely on sequence information.
Muhammad Saad Khilji +11 more
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Epidemiological and clinical status of patients with scorpion sting: emergency department of Sina hospital in Tabriz-Iran [PDF]
Objective: Scorpion is one of the world’s most venomous arthropods and every year many people are bitten by it. In Iran, scorpion sting is a common health issue.
Kavous Shahsavarinia1 , Ali Taghizadieh2 , Amir Ghaffarzad1 , Am,
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Abstract Meniscus allograft transplant (MAT) can provide meaningful improvement in patient outcomes in those who are otherwise meniscus deficient. A common finding in the setting of a failed MAT is meniscus extrusion. Meniscus centralization is a technique performed to reduce the meniscus to its intra‐articular location and has been shown to improve ...
Patrick A. Smith +3 more
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Poisonous spiders and other venomous arthropods in Missouri [PDF]
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Wingo, Curtis W., 1915-
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The ‘Chaldee Manuscript’, William Hone, and late Georgian religious parody [PDF]
This article analyses Blackwood's notorious ‘Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript’ (1817), contextualising the satire in the light of religious parody, ancient and modern – but in particular the latter – and arguing that there were specific ...
Strachan, J
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Evolution of Phospholipase A2 in Bees and Flies
This study investigated the evolution of the PLA2 gene in bees and flies and compared the evolutionary rate between them, which denotes the toxic group and the non‐toxic group. The results showed that PLA2 was under purifying selection and that an accelerated evolution of PLA2 occurred in the toxic group when compared with the non‐toxic group ...
Siqi Yang, Minyu Wu, Ping Feng
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The Epidemiological Study of Clinical Signs and Outcomes of Patients with Scorpion Stings Referred to Emergency Department of Rafsanjan Ali-Ibn-Abitaleb Hospital in 2017-2018: A Descriptive Study [PDF]
E. Shahrabadi +6 more
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Cardiotoxic and Arrhythmogenic Effects of Hemiscorpius lepturus Scorpion Venom in Rats [PDF]
Background: Envenomation by Hemiscorpius lepturus is not painful and the clinical manifestations include bloody urine due to hemoglobinuria or hematuria, dermonecrotic reactions,cardiac arrhythmia and in minority of cases acute renal failure which may ...
Evazy, Reihane +7 more
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