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Scientific Reports, 2023 Spiders are among the animals evoking the highest fear and disgust and such a complex response might have been formed throughout human evolution.
E. Landová +7 more
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Do Spiders Ride on the Fear of Scorpions? A Cross-Cultural Eye Tracking Study
Animals, 2022 Deep fear of spiders is common in many countries, yet its origin remains unexplained. In this study, we tested a hypothesis based on recent studies suggesting that fear of spiders might stem from a generalized fear of chelicerates or fear of scorpions ...
Veronika Rudolfová +10 more
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Therapeutic Potential of Bee and Scorpion Venom Phospholipase A2 (PLA2): A Narrative Review [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Venomous arthropods such as scorpions and bees form one of the important groups with an essential role in medical entomology. Their venom possesses a mixture of diverse compounds, such as peptides, some of which have toxic effects, and enzymatic peptide ...
Parisa Soltan-Alinejad +3 more
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The Oncologist, EarlyView., 2021 Abstract Lessons Learned Osimertinib has confirmed effectiveness in this real‐world population of patients with EGFR‐mutant advanced non‐small cell lung cancer. Thromboembolic events occur more frequently than previously reported, suggesting a thrombotic diathesis that requires further investigation. Patients with at least three metastatic sites, brain
Martina Lorenzi +21 more
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Isolation and characterization of bacterial community in the gut of the Androctonus crassicuda, Hottentota schach and Mesobuthus epeus scorpions [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2019 Scorpions (order: Scorpiones) are widely distributed predatory arachnids and highly resistant to environmental conditions. Some factors such as microorganisms of internal cavity of scorpions may affect their biology. In addition, microbial communities of
Hedieh Jafari +4 more
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Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases, 2019 Background: Scorpions pose one of the most important public health and medical problems in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, especially in developing countries.
Faranak Firoozfar +7 more
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Watch Out for Your Neighbor: Climbing onto Shrubs Is Related to Risk of Cannibalism in the Scorpion Buthus cf. occitanus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The distribution and behavior of foraging animals usually imply a balance between resource availability and predation risk. In some predators such as scorpions, cannibalism constitutes an important mortality factor determining their ecology and behavior.
Francisco Sánchez-Piñero +1 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2021 Objectives Annually, 1.2 million humans are stung by scorpions and severely affected by their venom. Some of the scorpion species of medical importance have a similar morphology to species with low toxicity.
Parisa Soltan-Alinejad +5 more
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Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2022 Background: Scorpionism is a worldwide problem that has already made thousands of victims, and multi-disciplinary approaches for controlling their populations are to be more successful.
Gabriel Pimenta Murayama +3 more
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2022 Photoperiod is an important environmental characteristic involved in the regulation of circadian physiological processes in living organisms. This experiment verified the effect of photoperiod on biomass gain and mortality in juvenile scorpions of the ...
José Rivaldo de Lima +4 more
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