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Advances in the Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in the Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, Volume 39, Issue 11, June 2025.
The article reviews recent advancements in the use of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) for the treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), with a particular focus on research progress in combating infections such as gonorrhea, HIV, HSV, and Chlamydia, as well as the challenges and future directions in this field.
Shuangwen Xiao, Wei Zuo, Qing Xiang, Yafeng Xie, Yongjian Xiao   +4 more
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The action of red scorpion (Mesobuthus tamulus coconsis, pocock) venom and its isolated protein fractions on blood sodium levels

Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2007
Red scorpion (Mesobuthus tamulus or Buthus tamulus) venom samples were collected at different regions of India: western (Chiplun and Ahmednagar from Maharashtra State) and southern (Ratnagiri and Chennai from Tamil Nadu State). The action of whole venoms
R. V. Badhe, A. B. Thomas, A. D. Deshpande, N. Salvi, A. Waghmare   +4 more
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Pioneering Study on Rhopalurus crassicauda Scorpion Venom: Isolation and Characterization of the Major Toxin and Hyaluronidase

Frontiers in Immunology, 2020
Scorpionism is responsible for most accidents involving venomous animals in Brazil, which leads to severe symptoms that can evolve to death. Scorpion venoms consist of complexes cocktails, including peptides, proteins, and non-protein compounds, making ...
Caio B. Abreu, Karla C. F. Bordon, Felipe A. Cerni, Isadora S. Oliveira, Carla Balenzuela, Gabriel M. Alexandre-Silva, Karina F. Zoccal, Mouzarllem B. Reis, Mouzarllem B. Reis, Gisele A. Wiezel, Steve Peigneur, Ernesto L. Pinheiro-Júnior, Jan Tytgat, Tiago M. Cunha, Loic Quinton, Lúcia H. Faccioli, Eliane C. Arantes, Umberto Zottich, Manuela B. Pucca   +18 more
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Dissecting Toxicity: The Venom Gland Transcriptome and the Venom Proteome of the Highly Venomous Scorpion Centruroides limpidus (Karsch, 1879)

Toxins, 2019
Venom glands and soluble venom from the Mexican scorpion Centruroides limpidus (Karsch, 1879) were used for transcriptomic and proteomic analyses, respectively.
Jimena I. Cid-Uribe, Erika P. Meneses, Cesar V. F. Batista, Ernesto Ortiz, Lourival D. Possani   +4 more
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Scorpion venom as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): A review article

The International Arabic Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 2015
The high level of reported multidrug resistant pathogens with the failure of most conventional antibiotic to kill many of them arise the global concern in the last decade to find alternatives urgently. Many researches are conducted on scorpion venom area and different antimicrobial peptides had been reported in literature also   many had been ...
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Differential comparison on protein components of the venoms obtained from two species of the Iranian endemic scorpions, Buthidae family

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, Rahim Sarvari, Firooz Ebrahimi, Mehdi Kamali, Jamil Zargan   +4 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, María Alicia Lozano, Rocio Garcia Moralez, Juan P. Ricarte‐Bratti, Julieta Lozita, Elizabeth Y. Ravinovich   +5 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, Zhiyong Di, Yingliang Wu, Wenxin Li   +3 more
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Profiling the resting venom gland of the scorpion Tityus stigmurus through a transcriptomic survey

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, Scortecci Katia C, Kobashi Leonardo S, Agnez-Lima Lucymara F, Medeiros Silvia R B, Silva-Junior Arnóbio A, Junqueira-de-Azevedo Inácio, Fernandes-Pedrosa Matheus   +7 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, Verónica Quintero-Hernández, Víctor Rivelino Juárez-González, Lourival D Possani   +3 more
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