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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Snake C-Type Lectins Potentially Contribute to the Prey Immobilization in Protobothrops mucrosquamatus and Trimeresurus stejnegeri Venoms

Toxins, 2020
Snake venoms contain components selected to immobilize prey. The venoms from Elapidae mainly contain neurotoxins, which are critical for rapid prey paralysis, while the venoms from Viperidae and Colubridae may contain fewer neurotoxins but are likely to ...
Huiwen Tian, Ming Liu, Jiameng Li, Runjia Xu, Chengbo Long, Hao Li, James Mwangi, Qiumin Lu, Ren Lai, Chuanbin Shen   +9 more
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The Importance of Environmental Heterogeneity in Evaluating the Conservation Status of Two Frog Species in a Changing Amazonian Interfluve

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
Identifying the most effective criterion to assess the conservation status of vulnerable species in threatened tropical regions is crucial to evaluate recovery plans. We investigated the influence of environmental heterogeneity on the extent of occurrence (EOO), area of occupied habitat (AOH), and density variation of two Amazonian riparian frog ...
Rafael F. Jorge, Pedro Aurélio Costa Lima Pequeno, William E. Magnusson, Albertina Pimentel Lima   +3 more
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Neurotoxins from Snake Venom

CHIMIA, 1998
Found within snake venoms are a variety of toxic and nontoxic proteins. The effects of snake venoms depend on all of the components of that venom.
Anthony T. Tu
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Occurrence and evolution of cannibal behaviour in extant snakes

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Extant snakes (Serpentes) are a highly diverse group of squamate reptiles, which have independently evolved key morphological adaptations to consume a large variety of vertebrate and invertebrate prey. While these predator–prey interactions have been widely addressed by several studies, little is known regarding the occurrence of cannibal ...
Bruna B. Falcão, Vinícius A. São Pedro, Omar M. Entiauspe‐Neto   +2 more
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Innovations in Snake Venom-Derived Therapeutics: A Systematic Review of Global Patents and Their Pharmacological Applications

Toxins
Active compounds from natural sources, particularly snake venoms, are crucial for pharmaceutical development despite challenges in drug discovery. Snake venoms, historically used for medicinal purposes, contain bioactive peptides and enzymes that show ...
Diana Carolina Zona Rubio, Diana Marcela Aragón, Izabel Almeida Alves   +2 more
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Diversity of Micrurus snake species related to their venom toxic effects and the prospective of antivenom neutralization.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2010
BackgroundMicrurus snake bites can cause death by muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, few hours after envenomation. The specific treatment for coral snake envenomation is the intravenous application of heterologous antivenom and, in Brazil, it is ...
Gabriela D Tanaka, Maria de Fátima D Furtado, Fernanda C V Portaro, Osvaldo Augusto Sant'Anna, Denise V Tambourgi   +4 more
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Venoms of Rear-Fanged Snakes: New Proteins and Novel Activities

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Snake venom research has focused on front-fanged venomous snakes because of the high incidence of human morbidity and mortality from envenomations and larger venom yields of these species, while venoms from rear-fanged snakes have been largely neglected.
Cassandra M. Modahl, Stephen P. Mackessy
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The absence of thrombin-like activity in Bothrops erythromelas venom is due to the deletion of the snake venom thrombin-like enzyme gene.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Snake venom thrombin-like enzymes (SVTLEs) are serine proteinases that clot fibrinogen. SVTLEs are distributed mainly in venoms from snakes of the Viperidae family, comprising venomous pit viper snakes.
Nicholas P Lotto, Jeanne C de Albuquerque Modesto, Sávio S Sant'Anna, Kathleen F Grego, Miriam C Guarnieri, Rejane M Lira-da-Silva, Marcelo L Santoro, Nancy Oguiura   +7 more
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In vitro trichomonocidal potency of Naja nigricollis and Bitis arietans snake venom [PDF]

, 2021
Tijjani Sabiu Imam, Zainab Tukur, Aisha Abdullahi Bala, Nuraddeen Bello Ahmad, Adamu Yunusa Ugya   +4 more
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