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Hemorrhagic Activity and Hemostatic Alterations Caused by Cerastes cerastes and Daboia mauritanica: Indicators of Viper Bite Severity in Morocco [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesSnakebite envenoming is a major global public health problem, causing approximately 5 million bites and 150,000 deaths each year, particularly in North Africa, where viper bites lead to significant morbidity and mortality.
Mesmoudi Nihal +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Spiders are useful models for testing different hypotheses and methodologies relating to animal personality and behavioral syndromes because they show a range of behavioral types and unique physiological traits (e.g., silk and venom) that are not ...
Linda Hernández Duran +3 more
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Does the traditional snakebite severity score correctly classify envenomated patients? [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2016 Objective This study aims to help set domestic guidelines for administration of antivenom to envenomated patients after snakebites. Methods This retrospective observational case series comprised 128 patients with snake envenomation.
Seungho Kang +2 more
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Toxins, 2013 Neuro- and myotoxicological signs and symptoms are significant clinical features of envenoming snakebites in many parts of the world. The toxins primarily responsible for the neuro and myotoxicity fall into one of two categories—those that bind to and ...
John B. Harris, Tracey Scott-Davey
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, 2020 Snake venoms possess lethal activities against different organisms, ranging from bacteria to higher vertebrates. Several venoms were shown to be active against protozoa, however, data about the anti-protozoan activity of cobra and viper venoms are very ...
Vladislav Starkov +9 more
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Two related thrombin-like enzymes present in Bothrops atrox venom
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2000 This article describes the presence of two new forms of a thrombin-like enzyme, both with apparent molecular masses of 38 kDa, in Bothrops atrox venom. Both share the ability to cleave fibrinogen into fibrin and to digest casein.
J.H. Petretski +4 more
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, 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 ...
Hao Li +9 more
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Proteomic and Transcriptomic Techniques to Decipher the Molecular Evolution of Venoms
, 2021 Nature’s library of venoms is a vast and untapped resource that has the potential of becoming the source of a wide variety of new drugs and therapeutics.
Reza Sharif-Naeini +1 more
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Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2007 Purification of a lectin from Bothrops jararacussu venom (BjcuL) was carried out using agarose-D-galactose affinity gel. MALDI-TOF gave a major signal at m/z 32028, suggesting the presence of a dimmer composed of two identical subunits.
S. L. Elífio-Esposito +8 more
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, 2020 Latest advancement of omics technologies allows in-depth characterization of venom compositions. In the present work we present a proteomic study of two snake venoms of the genus Naja i.e., Naja naja (black cobra) and Naja oxiana (brown cobra) of ...
Zia Mughal +8 more
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