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The deadliest snake according to ethnobiological perception of the population of the Alto Juruá region, western Brazilian Amazonia

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2019
INTRODUCTION: We examined the ethnobiological perception of the population of the Alto Juruá region about different snake species, in terms of their dangerousness and manifestations of envenomation.
Jessyca Lima da Silva, Ageane Mota da Siva, Gardênia Lima Gurgel do Amaral, Givanildo Pereira Ortega, Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro, Paulo Sérgio Bernarde   +5 more
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A CASE OF SNAKE-BITE. [PDF]

The Lancet, 1893
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‘They are not predators: They are a higher power’—Relational values and principles framing human–predator relationship in Noongar Country, Southwestern Australia

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Human–predator coexistence presents urgent conservation challenges that demand approaches extending beyond mere conflict mitigation. Indigenous knowledge systems, though historically marginalised by Western science, offer vital insights into ethical, sustainable relationships with nature.
Rocío Almuna, Cristina E. Ramalho, Lynette Knapp, Carol Pettersen, Iris Maude Bonshore, Elizabeth M. Woods, Gail E. Yorkshire‐Selby, Mick Hayden, Rhys Bonshore, Larry Blight, Peter Speldewinde, José Tomás Ibarra, Stephen D. Hopper   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Immunodiagnosis of Snake Bite [PDF]

BMJ, 1974
Management of a patient with snake bite is influenced by the nature of the offending snake. Species diagnosis based on the patient's history and physical signs is often unreliable and the possibility of making a species diagnosis by immunological means has therefore been investigated.
Greenwood, B, Warrell, D, Davidson, N, Ormerod, L, Reid, H   +4 more
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Early intervention in viper bites: a potential strategy to mitigate acute kidney injury and its long-term consequences

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Dear Editor, By this letter we intend to highlight the close association between snake bites and acute kidney injury, as the causative snakes are common natives of Tropical regions and a common cause of death because of being poorly managed.
Rabeea Mushtaq, Ramlah Naz, Mehreen Fatima   +2 more
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Modulating Hunting Atmospheres: Mud and Material Flows Beyond the Kill

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that hunting is not a bounded event but a materially redistributed atmosphere that extends beyond the kill and across field, truck, clothing, and home. Drawing on long‐term ethnographic fieldwork with wild boar hunters in Uruguay, I show how mud, odors, blood, and bodily residues carry the sensory, affective, and material ...
Juan Martin Dabezies
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical and epidemiologic profile and predictors of outcome of poisonous snake bites – an analysis of 1,500 cases from a tertiary care center in Malabar, North Kerala, India

International Journal of General Medicine, 2018
KG Sajeeth Kumar, Santhosh Narayanan, V Udayabhaskaran, NK Thulaseedharan Department of General Medicine, Government Medical College, Kozhikode, Kerala, India Background: Snake bites are a neglected public health problem in all tropical countries, and ...
Sajeeth Kumar KG, Narayanan S, Udayabhaskaran V, Thulaseedharan NK   +3 more
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Nocturnal snake bite - A Challenge to diagnosis and treatment [PDF]

Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2008
Snake envenomation is a routinely occurring life threatening emergency in tropical countries like India. Not all cases of snake bites will have a classical presentation, resulting in delay in diagnosis and treatment with disastrous consequences.
Parvez khan
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The selective degradation of PDE4B shortform, using a PROTAC, leads to inhibition of several hallmarks of cancer in HCT116 cells

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background and Purpose Colorectal cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide, and novel precision medicine approaches are rapidly improving patient outcomes. Phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B) is a member of an enzyme family (PDE4) that hydrolyses intracellular cAMP to control spatial and temporal signalling cues.
Alina Zorn, John Daniel Pediani, Madihah Hussain, Jiayue Ling, Elaine Brown, Igor Belka, Eduardo Torres, Cathy Swindlehurst, Kyle Chan, David Stirling, George S. Baillie, Yuan Yan Sin   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source