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Oral Tolerance Induction by Bothrops jararaca Venom in a Murine Model and Cross-Reactivity with Toxins of Other Snake Venoms. [PDF]
Toxins (Basel), 2021 Tsuruta LR +3 more
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Children and Snakebite: Snake Venom Effects on Adult and Paediatric Plasma
Toxins, 2023 Snakebite is a globally neglected tropical disease, with coagulation disturbances being the primary pathology of many deadly snake venoms. Age-related differences in human plasma have been abundantly reported, yet the effect that these differences pose ...
Christina N. Zdenek +5 more
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Biology, 2023 Snakebite envenoming is an important public health issue with devastating consequences and annual mortality rates that range between 81,000 and 138,000.
Mátyás A. Bittenbinder +8 more
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Toxins, 2023 The cytotoxicity caused by snake venoms is a serious medical problem that greatly contributes to the morbidity observed in snakebite patients. The cytotoxic components found in snake venoms belong to a variety of toxin classes and may cause cytotoxic ...
Eric Wachtel +8 more
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Polyvalent Snake Antivenoms: Production Strategy and Their Therapeutic Benefits
Toxins, 2023 Snake envenomation remains an important yet neglected medical problem in many countries, with around five million people affected, and over a hundred thousand deaths annually. Plasma-derived antivenoms are the main therapeutic agent available. Monovalent
Kavi Ratanabanangkoon
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Учёные записки Санкт-Петербургского государственного медицинского университета им. Акад. И.П. Павлова, 2022 Snake venoms have been fervently studied for decades for two reasons: 1) high death rate due to snake bites; 2) numerous components of snake venoms prove useful in medicine and treatment of diverse pathologies. Snake venom phospholipases A2 are among the
L. V. Galebskaya +3 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Human envenoming by Australian brown snakes (Pseudonaja spp.) may result in potentially life-threatening hypotension and subsequent cardiovascular collapse.
Nhi Thuc Vuong +2 more
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Snake Venoms in Cancer Therapy: Past, Present and Future
Toxins, 2018 Cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and the discovery of new drugs for cancer therapy is one of the most important objectives for the pharmaceutical industry.
Li Li, Jianzhong Huang, Yao Lin
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Snake Venom: A Promising Source of Neurotoxins Targeting Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels
Toxins, 2023 The venom derived from various sources of snakes represents a vast collection of predominantly protein-based toxins that exhibit a wide range of biological actions, including but not limited to inflammation, pain, cytotoxicity, cardiotoxicity, and ...
Altaf K. AlShammari +2 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 +2 more
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