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Snakes and Snakebite Envenoming in Northern Tanzania: A Neglected Tropical Health Problem. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Snakebites cause considerable human and livestock injuries as well as deaths worldwide, and particularly have a high impact in sub-Saharan Africa. Generating a basic platform of information on the characteristics of snakes and snakebites in various ...
Kimaro, W H, Kipanyula, M J
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Centipede Venoms and Their Components: Resources for Potential Therapeutic Applications

open access: yesToxins, 2015
Venomous animals have evolved with sophisticated bio-chemical strategies to arrest prey and defend themselves from natural predators. In recent years, peptide toxins from venomous animals have drawn considerable attention from researchers due to their ...
Md Abdul Hakim, Shilong Yang, Ren Lai
doaj   +1 more source

Medically Important Venomous Animals: Biology, Prevention, First Aid, and Clinical Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Venomous animals are a significant health problem for rural populations in many parts of the world. Given the current level of the international mobility of individuals and the inquisitiveness of travelers, clinicians and travel clinics need to be able ...
Bodio, Mauro   +3 more
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Venomous animal accidents in childhood [PDF]

open access: yesJornal de Pediatria, 1999
OBJECTIVE: To highlight the importance of venomous animal accidents in childhood. The conducts are based on the proposals of the Ministério da Saúde do Brasil [Ministry of Health of Brazil] to standardize medical care in this kind of accident. This article shows the importance of early clinical diagnosis and assistance.METHODS: Review of international ...
J S, Oliveira, J A, Campos, D M, Costa
openaire   +2 more sources

Selfish or altruistic? An analysis of alarm call function in wild capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella nigritus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Alarm calls facilitate some antipredatory benefits of group living but may endanger the caller by attracting the predator's attention. A number of hypotheses invoking kin selection and individual selection have been proposed to explain how such behaviour
Alatalo   +87 more
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Envenomings Caused By Venomous Animals In Roraima: A Neglected Health Problem In The Brazil’s Northernmost State

open access: yesToxicology: Current Research, 2019
A Neglected Health Abstract Accidents caused by venomous animals are an important global neglected disease with high impact in Brazilian Amazon. The sub- stantial numbers of envenomings registered in the Amazon region can be explained by the optimal ...
Wállex Matias Pedroso Souza
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of Anticancer Effects Induced by Apis mellifera Venom on Breast Cancer Cell Line

open access: yesBihdād, 2020
Background: In recent years, the number of people with cancer has increased. For this reason, different drugs have been suggested for the treatment of cancer, but none of them has resulted in complete remission.
Hossein Zolfagharian   +2 more
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WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF A SNAKE? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The way that herpetologists have traditionally measuredlive snakes is by stretching them on a ruler andrecording the total length (TL). However, due to the thinconstitution of the snake, the large number of intervertebraljoints, and slim muscular mass of
Ascanio, Rafeal E.   +2 more
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Partial Purification and Characterization of Anticoagulant Factor from the Snake (Echis carinatus) Venom [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2013
Objective(s): Snake venoms contain complex mixture of proteins with biological activities. Some of these proteins affect blood coagulation and platelet function in different ways.
Elham Amrollahi Byoki   +1 more
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Heterodon nasicus [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Number of Pages: 10Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Eckerman, Curtis M., Walley, Harlan D.
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