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Toxins, 2014 Taipans are highly venomous Australo-Papuan elapids. A new species of taipan, the Western Desert Taipan (Oxyuranus temporalis), has been discovered with two specimens housed in captivity at the Adelaide Zoo.
Carmel M. Barber +8 more
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Crotalus atrox venom preconditioning increases plasma fibrinogen and reduces perioperative hemorrhage in a rat model of surgical brain injury. [PDF]
, 2017 Perioperative bleeding is a potentially devastating complication in neurosurgical patients, and plasma fibrinogen concentration has been identified as a potential modifiable risk factor for perioperative bleeding.
Applegate, Richard +12 more
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BMC Biology, 2021 Background Snakes and primates have a multi-layered coevolutionary history as predators, prey, and competitors with each other. Previous work has explored the Snake Detection Theory (SDT), which focuses on the role of snakes as predators of primates and ...
Richard J. Harris +2 more
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Medicina, 2011 More than 5 million people are bitten by venomous snakes annually and more than 100 000 of them die. In Europe, one person dies due to envenomation every 3 years. There is only one venomous snake species in Lithuania – the common adder (Vipera berus) – which belongs to the Viperidae family; however, there are some exotic poisonous snakes in the zoos ...
Dalia, Adukauskienė +2 more
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Toxicon: X, 2020 Contralaterally positioned maxillary (upper jaw) venom glands in snakes are mechanically independent, being able to discharge venom from either gland separately.
Richard J. Harris +5 more
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In vivo immunotherapy of lung cancer using cross-species reactive vascular endothelial growth factor nanobodies [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2017 Objective(s): Lung cancer is the main leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Angiogenesis is the main step in proliferation and spreading of tumor cells.
vFatemeh Kazemi-Lomedasht v +6 more
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Purification of a fragment obtained by autolysis of a PIIIb-SVMP from Bothrops alternatus venom [PDF]
, 2018 Snake Venom Metalloproteinases (SVMPs) represent 43.1% of the components in Bothrops alternatus venom and play an important role in envenomation. Disintegrins and disintegrin-like domains are released by proteolytic processing of PII and PIII classes of ...
Acosta, Ofelia Cristina +9 more
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Toxins, 2016 Taipans (Oxyuranus spp.) are elapids with highly potent venoms containing presynaptic (β) and postsynaptic (α) neurotoxins. O. temporalis (Western Desert taipan), a newly discovered member of this genus, has been shown to possess venom which displays ...
Carmel M. Barber +2 more
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Identification of key genes and microRNAs involved in the Androctonus Crassicauda apoptosis pathway [PDF]
مجله بیوتکنولوژی کشاورزی, 2021 Objective The occurrence of planned cell death or apoptosis as a protected method is controlled by a number of genes that used to remove unnecessary cells. This cellular event is involved in immune and disease-related systems.
Fatemeh Salabi +3 more
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Moral Worth, Credit, and Non-Accidentality [PDF]
, 2020 This paper defends an account of moral worth. Moral worth is a status that some, but not all, morally right actions have. Unlike with merely right actions, when an agent performs a morally worthy action, she is necessarily creditworthy for doing the ...
Singh, Keshav
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