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Past, Present, and Future of Naturally Occurring Antimicrobials Related to Snake Venoms [PDF]

Animals, 2023
Nancy Oguiura, M TERESA Machini, Marcos A Sulca   +2 more
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X Marks the Clot: Evolutionary and Clinical Implications of Divergences in Procoagulant Australian Elapid Snake Venoms. [PDF]

Toxins (Basel)
Australian elapid snakes possess potent procoagulant venoms, capable of inducing severe venom-induced consumption coagulopathy (VICC) in snakebite victims through rapid activation of the coagulation cascade by converting the FVII and prothrombin zymogens
Morecroft H, Zdenek CN, Chowdhury A, Dunstan N, Hay C, Fry BG.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Comparative Snake Venom Analysis for Facilitating Wildlife Forensics: A Pilot Study

Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry, 2022
Confirm and authentic identification of species is required for the implementation of wildlife laws in cases of illegal trafficking of snake venoms. Illegally trafficked snake venom might be misidentified with other drugs of abuse, and sometimes, the ...
Saurabh Bhargava, Kiran Kumari, Rajendra Kumar Sarin, Rajvinder Singh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Monitoring Snake Venom-Induced Extracellular Matrix Degradation and Identifying Proteolytically Active Venom Toxins Using Fluorescently Labeled Substrates

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, Nick D. Bergkamp, Julien Slagboom, Jan Paul M. Bebelman, Nicholas R. Casewell, Marco H. Siderius, Martine J. Smit, Jeroen Kool, Freek J. Vonk   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of an Extracellular Matrix-Mimicking Fluorescent Polymer for the Detection of Proteolytic Venom Toxins

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, Matyas A. Bittenbinder, Bas van de Velde, Julien Slagboom, Axel de Monts de Savasse, Luis L. Alonso, Nicholas R. Casewell, Freek J. Vonk, Jeroen Kool   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bites of Venomous Snakes

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.
Barry S, Gold, Richard C, Dart, Robert A, Barish   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

Viperidae snake venom phospholipase A2 . Biochemical targets for the action of protein in the human blood circulatory system. Part 1 (review of literature)

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, L. V. Vasina, M. A. Galkin, Yu. V. Tarasova   +3 more
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Role of Phospholipases A2 in Vascular Relaxation and Sympatholytic Effects of Five Australian Brown Snake, Pseudonaja spp., Venoms in Rat Isolated Tissues

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, Timothy N. W. Jackson, Christine E. Wright   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Antibiotics Potentiate Proteases in Hemotoxic Snake Venoms? [PDF]

Toxins (Basel), 2020
Antibiotics are often administered with antivenom following snakebite envenomings in order to avoid secondary bacterial infections. However, to this date, no studies have evaluated whether antibiotics may have undesirable potentiating effects on snake ...
Sørensen CV, Knudsen C, Auf dem Keller UAD, Kalogeropoulos K, Gutiérrez-Jiménez C, Pucca MB, Arantes EC, Bordon KCF, Laustsen AH.   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources