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Identification of antimicrobila peptides in spider venom
, 2010 Still increasing resistance to antibiotics leads to the need to find new active compounds with antimicrobial properties. This work is focused on the occurrence, chemical and physical description, mechanism of action and biological activity of such ...
Benýšek, Jakub
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Venom of Cupiennius salei (Ctenidae)
, 2015 The venom of the ctenid spider Cupiennius salei contains a variety of low molecular mass compounds, many small cationic peptides, disulfiderich peptides, and several enzymes. Among the low molecular mass compounds are taurine, histamine, and citric acid.
Wolfgang Nentwig +7 more
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Role Identity and Professional Identity: Educators' Experiences During Wartime
European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT The study explores role identity and professional identity of educators as manifested in a crisis zone of war. The concept of identity is debated with researchers and theorists challenging the notion of a fixed, unchanging identity. Instead, identity is seen as fluid, constantly being formed and transformed.
Shosh Leshem +5 more
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Fugitive Junctures: Life‐Seeking, Route‐Finding and the Mobile Ensemble at Kenya's Borders
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract Fugitivity has become an important conceptual frame to understand the illegalised mobilities of contemporary migrants in conjunction with enslaved people's historical lines of flight as spatial praxes to seize their own freedom. Thinking from Kenya, and drawing on research with migrants, border officials, activists, police and smugglers,
Hanno Brankamp
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The Joy of Pests: Camaraderie, Wonder and Dialectical Autonomy in UK Professional Pest Management
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract Using interviews and participant observation, this research explores the everyday practices and experiences of UK‐based pest management professionals. It reveals an unexpected and unalienated ‘joy of pests’ anchored in problem‐solving variety, camaraderie and zoological curiosity.
Hannah Fair
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, 2016 Using a new approach based on the NMR spectroscopic analysis of the entire, unpurified spider venom, we identified a family of unusual sulfated nucleoside derivatives from the venom of the hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis.
Frank C. Schroeder (159898) +2 more
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, 2015 Crude Phoneutria nigriventer venom was fractionated by Sephadex, ion-exchange and reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography. One protein (PNV1) with spasmogenic activity in rabbit vascular smooth muscle was isolated and biochemically ...
Marangoni R.A. +9 more
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, 2015 Theraphosid spider venoms can block neurotransmission in vertebrate nerve-muscle preparations invitro, but few of the components involved have been characterized.
Rostelato-Ferreira S. +5 more
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Interaction of Brown Recluse Spider Venom on Cell Membranes: The Inciting Mechanism?
, 1984 The venom from the brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa, contains one or more factors which produce skin necrosis. A dermonecrotic factor with sphingomyelinase D activity was purified from the spider's venom sacs which produced skin necrosis when ...
Yates, Ruth Ann +3 more
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A novel neurotoxin from venom of the spider, Brachypelma albopilosum.
, 2014 Spiders have evolved highly selective toxins for insects. There are many insecticidal neurotoxins in spider venoms. Although a large amount of work has been done to focus on neurotoxicity of spider components, little information, which is related with ...
Qiumin Lu +7 more
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