Animal toxins: what features differentiate pore blockers from gate modifiers [PDF]
, 2005 A surprisingly large number of animal toxins target voltage sensitive ion channels. Even though there exists toxins for all four major voltage sensitive ion channels, a majority act either on sodium or potassium channels.
Bhogal, S. +3 more
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Overview of Scorpion Species from China and Their Toxins
Toxins, 2014 Scorpions are one of the most ancient groups of terrestrial animals. They have maintained a steady morphology over more than 400 million years of evolution.
Zhijian Cao +3 more
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Cardiogenic shock requiring VA‐ECMO therapy in scorpionism‐induced myocarditis
ESC Heart Failure, Volume 12, Issue 5, Page 3780-3784, October 2025.
Alba I. Violino +5 more
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Iranian South Medical Journal, 2012 Background: Two Dimensional Electrophoresis (2DE) is the most commonly and useful separation technique in proteomics. Each proteome snapshot becomes a protein profile. By means of this technique, several proteins are studied simultaneously.
Alireza Farahmandzad +4 more
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Profiling the resting venom gland of the scorpion
BMC Genomics, 2012 Background The scorpion Tityus stigmurus is widely distributed in Northeastern Brazil and known to cause severe human envenoming, inducing pain, hyposthesia, edema, erythema, paresthesia, headaches and vomiting.
Almeida Diego D +7 more
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Venomics of Remipede Crustaceans Reveals Novel Peptide Diversity and Illuminates the Venom’s Biological Role [PDF]
, 2017 © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Björn von Reumont +14 more
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Whole Transcriptome of the Venom Gland from Urodacus yaschenkoi Scorpion.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Australian scorpion venoms have been poorly studied, probably because they do not pose an evident threat to humans. In addition, the continent has other medically important venomous animals capable of causing serious health problems.
Karen Luna-Ramírez +3 more
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Neurotransmitter evaluation in the hippocampus of rats after intracerebral injection of TsTX scorpion toxin [PDF]
, 2009 TsTX is an a-type sodium channel toxin that stimulates the discharge of neurotransmitters from neurons. In the present study we investigated which neurotransmitters are released in the hippocampus after TsTX injection and if they are responsible for ...
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Examining the interactions scorpion venom peptides (HP1090, Meucin-13, and Meucin-18) with the receptor binding domain of the coronavirus spike protein to design a mutated therapeutic peptide. [PDF]
J Mol Graph Model, 2021 Mahnam K, Lotfi M, Shapoorabadi FA.
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Isolation of two insecticidal toxins from venom of the Australian theraphosid spider Coremiocnemis tropix [PDF]
, 2016 © 2016 Elsevier Ltd Sheep flystrike is caused by parasitic flies laying eggs on soiled wool or open wounds, after which the hatched maggots feed on the sheep flesh and often cause large lesions.
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