Differential Effects of Marimastat and Prinomastat on the Metalloprotease Activity of Various Snake Venoms [PDF]
ToxinsSnakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease, responsible for approximately 140,000 deaths globally each year. Vipers and elapid snakes represent the most significant snake families in medical contexts, exhibiting a variety of venom components ...
Mahtab Khatibi +6 more
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Snake Venoms in Drug Discovery: Valuable Therapeutic Tools for Life Saving
Toxins, 2019 Animal venoms are used as defense mechanisms or to immobilize and digest prey. In fact, venoms are complex mixtures of enzymatic and non-enzymatic components with specific pathophysiological functions.
Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz +1 more
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Antiprotozoal Effect of Snake Venoms and Their Fractions: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Pathogens, 2021 Background: Protozoal infection is a lingering public health issue of great concern, despite efforts to produce drugs and vaccines against it. Recent breakthrough research has discovered alternative antiprotozoal agents encompassing the use of snake ...
Salihu S Musa +2 more
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Two-Dimensional Blue Native/SDS Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis for Analysis of Brazilian Bothrops Snake Venoms [PDF]
Toxins, 2022 Viperidae snakes are the most important agents of snakebites in Brazil. The protein composition of snake venoms has been frequently analyzed by means of electrophoretic techniques, but the interaction of proteins in venoms has barely been addressed.
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Toxins, 2014 Scorpion stings and snake bites are major health hazards that lead to suffering of victims and high mortality. Thousands of injuries associated with such stings and bites of venomous animals occur every year worldwide.
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Applications of snake venoms in treatment of cancer
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine, 2015 Snake venoms are folk medicines used since ages. The components of snake venoms have high specific affinity and actions on cells and cell components. Also snake venoms are largely cytotoxic to tumor cells than normal cells.
Vagish Kumar Laxman Shanbhag
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Knowledge about Snake Venoms and Toxins from Colombia: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Toxins, 2023 Colombia encompasses three mountain ranges that divide the country into five natural regions: Andes, Pacific, Caribbean, Amazon, and Orinoquia. These regions offer an impressive range of climates, altitudes, and landscapes, which lead to a high snake ...
Jaime Andrés Pereañez +2 more
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Development of a high-throughput in vitro screening method for the assessment of cell-damaging activities of snake venoms. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023 Snakebite envenoming is a globally important public health issue that has devastating consequences on human health and well-being, with annual mortality rates between 81,000 and 138,000.
Matyas A Bittenbinder +8 more
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A Review of the Proteomic Profiling of African Viperidae and Elapidae Snake Venoms and Their Antivenom Neutralisation [PDF]
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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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Animal venoms have evolved over millions of years for prey capture and defense from predators and rivals. Snake venoms, in particular, have evolved a wide diversity of peptides and proteins that induce harmful inflammatory and neurotoxic effects ...
Camila R Ferraz +2 more
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