7.4C). The shortened maxilla bears a small but enlarged fang at the front and a variable number of small, solid teeth behind. The fangs of elapids are shorter than those of viperids, so do not deliver venom quite so efficiently. Thus, elapids do not use the strike-and-release method...
This factor is expected to greatly affect the severity of envenomation, as well as possibly determine the net effect of a procoagulant venom. For example, envenomated prey items such as rats are likely to suffer a stroke from blood vessel occlusion (blockage) [34,35,36,37], but adult ...
Cysteine-rich secretory proteins (CRiSP) constitute a large family of vertebrate proteins responsible for various biological activities, including the reproduction and blockage of ion channels. Snake venom CRiSPs is a toxin family with a high degree of sequence similarity. They comprise a single polypep...