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The rise of genomics in snake venom research: recent advances and future perspectives
GigaScience, 2022 Snake venoms represent a danger to human health, but also a gold mine of bioactive proteins that can be harnessed for drug discovery purposes.
Wei-Qiao Rao +13 more
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Old World Vipers—A Review about Snake Venom Proteomics of Viperinae and Their Variations
Toxins, 2021 Fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution, snake venoms have frightened but also fascinated humanity and nowadays they constitute potential resources for drug development, therapeutics and antivenoms.
Maik Damm +2 more
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Snake Venom Components: Tools and Cures to Target Cardiovascular Diseases
Molecules, 2021 Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are considered as a major cause of death worldwide. Therefore, identifying and developing therapeutic strategies to treat and reduce the prevalence of CVDs is a major medical challenge.
Jacinthe Frangieh +6 more
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Toxins, 2022 Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that results from the injection of snake venom of a venomous snake into animals and humans.
Benedict C. Offor +2 more
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Plicidentine and the repeated origins of snake venom fangs
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2021 Snake fangs are an iconic exemplar of a complex adaptation, but despite striking developmental and morphological similarities, they probably evolved independently in several lineages of venomous snakes.
A. Palci +8 more
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Nutrition & Metabolism, 2020 Background Suppressed mitochondrial biosynthesis has been reported to be the early signal of mitochondrial dysfunction which contributes to diabetic cardiomyopathy, but the mechanism of mitochondrial biosynthesis suppression is unclear.
Yan Xiong +5 more
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Snake Venomics and Antivenomics of Bothrops diporus, a Medically Important Pitviper in Northeastern Argentina [PDF]
, 2015 Snake species within genus Bothrops are responsible for more than 80% of the snakebites occurring in South America. The species that cause most envenomings in Argentina, B.
Calvete, Juan J. +3 more
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New England Journal of Medicine, 2002 At least 2000 persons are bitten by venomous snakes in the United States each year. This article reviews the diagnosis and management of bites from venomous snakes encountered in North America, but the same principles apply to management of snakebites elsewhere in the world.
Robert A. Barish +2 more
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Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2015 Snake venom ophthalmia is caused by venoms of spitting elapid and other snakes. The cobra is one of the most venomous snakes of genus Naja. There are more than 20 species of cobra like the King cobra of South Africa, Thailand, Burma, China, India, Malaysia, Philippines; the spitting cobra of Africa and parts of South East Asia; the Indian cobra found ...
Vivek Sharma, V.K. Baranwal
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Repurposing cancer drugs, batimastat and marimastat, to inhibit the activity of a group I metalloprotease from the venom of the Western Diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox [PDF]
, 2020 Snakebite envenomation causes over 140,000 deaths every year predominantly in developing countries. As a result, it is one of the most lethal neglected tropical diseases.
Bicknell, Andrew B. +12 more
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