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Evaluation of Antifungal Activity of Naja pallida and Naja mossambica Venoms against Three Candida Species

Toxins, 2020
In contrast to comprehensively investigated antibacterial activity of snake venoms, namely crude venoms and their selected components, little is known about antifungal properties of elapid snake venoms. In the present study, the proteome of two venoms of
Ewelina Kuna, Aleksandra Bocian, Konrad K. Hus, Vladimir Petrilla, Monika Petrillova, Jaroslav Legath, Anna Lewinska, Maciej Wnuk   +7 more
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A Strategy for Efficient Preparation of Genus-Specific Diagnostic Antibodies for Snakebites

Frontiers in Immunology, 2021
As said by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, “Snakebite is the most important tropical disease you’ve never heard of.” Listed as a priority neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization, snakebite envenoming (SBE) kills in
Chengbo Long, Chengbo Long, Feilong Wu, Feilong Wu, Qiumin Lu, Qiumin Lu, Bing Xie, Chuanbin Shen, Jiayao Li, Yanling Deng, Ping Liang, Yongzhi Yu, Ren Lai, Ren Lai   +13 more
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A neuro‐behavioural model of neophobia

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fear can be defined as the internal neurological state that releases a repertoire of behaviours an animal performs to reduce the effect of an aversive factor. Neophobia, the fear of novelty, is a fundamental behavioural trait observed across a wide range of species from arthropods to humans.
Arik Dorfman, Aziz Subach, Inon Scharf
wiley   +1 more source

Cross-neutralisation of Australian brown and tiger snake venoms with commercial antivenoms: Cross-reactivity or antivenom mixtures?

, 2007
Recently it has been suggested that the Australian snake antivenoms made by CSL Ltd. are in fact not truly monovalent and may contain antibodies to other snake venoms because the horses are injected with multiple snake venoms.
Ong, Lin Kooi, McKendry, Amy, Prakash Krishnan, Brian, Isbister, Geoffrey K., O’Leary, Margaret A., Schneider, Jennifer J., Lavis, Christopher   +6 more
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High throughput screening and identification of coagulopathic snake venom proteins and peptides using nanofractionation and proteomics approaches.

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020
Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease that results in a variety of systemic and local pathologies in envenomed victims and is responsible for around 138,000 deaths every year.
Julien Slagboom, Marija Mladić, Chunfang Xie, Taline D Kazandjian, Freek Vonk, Govert W Somsen, Nicholas R Casewell, Jeroen Kool   +7 more
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Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The irreversibility of complex trait loss has long been a tenet of evolutionary biology. However, this idea is increasingly at odds with the numerous documented exceptions across the Tree of Life. We synthesise this growing body of evidence across a diverse array of taxa and traits, exploring the evolutionary conditions that enable ...
Giobbe Forni, Giuseppe Fusco, Filippo Nicolini, Heather Bruce, Andrea Luchetti   +4 more
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Pharmacological aspects of Vipera xantina palestinae venom

, 2011
In Israel, Vipera xantina palestinae (V.x.p.) is the most common venomous snake, accounting for several hundred cases of envenomation in humans and domestic animals every year, with a mortality rate of 0.5 to 2%.
Katzhendler, Jeoshua, Franziska T. Arlinghaus, Jeoshua Katzhendler, Cezary Marcinkiewicz, Philip Lazarovici, Arlinghaus, Franziska T., Johannes A. Eble, Lazarovici, Philip, Momic, Tatjana, Eble, Johannes A., Hadar Arien-Zakay, Marcinkiewicz, Cezary, Tatjana Momic, Arien-Zakay, Hadar, Arlinghaus, Franziska Therese   +14 more
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The evolution and structure of snake venom phosphodiesterase (svPDE) highlight its importance in venom actions

eLife, 2023
For decades, studies of snake venoms focused on the venom-ome-specific toxins (VSTs). VSTs are dominant soluble proteins believed to contribute to the main venomous effects and emerged into gene clusters for fast adaptation and diversification of snake ...
Cheng-Tsung Pan, Chien-Chu Lin, I-Jin Lin, Kun-Yi Chien, Yeong-Shin Lin, Hsiao-Han Chang, Wen-Guey Wu   +6 more
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Spotlight on the Nucleotide: Solid‐State NMR for the Investigation of ATP Hydrolysis in the ATPase SmsC

Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
Nucleotide‐detected solid‐state NMR has been applied to probe nucleotide conformations and dynamics during ATP hydrolysis using the dimeric P‐loop ATPase SmsC as a model protein. The different stages of ATP hydrolysis have been mimicked by ATP analogues for which different degrees of conformational heterogeneity have been observed. ABSTRACT Solid‐state
Nina Wehr, Laure Decamps, Julius Schlüter, Koen Linssen, Georg Künze, Kushal Sengupta, Serena DeBeer, Thomas Wiegand   +7 more
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Coral snake venoms: mode of action and pathophysiology of experimental envenomation

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1987
Coral snakes, the New World Elapidae, are included in the genera Micniroides and Micrurus. The genus Mlcrurus comprises nearly all coral snake species and those which are responsible for human snake-bite accidents.
Oswald Vital Brazil
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