According to the World Health Organization, snakebite is a major health challenge in tropical and sub-tropical countries including India, and therefore, it is considered as a neglected tropical disease1. The “big four” venomous snakes –Daboia russelli,Naja naja,Echis carinatus, andBungarus caeru...
A symmetry or asymmetry: Functional and compositional comparison of venom from the left and right glands of the Indochinese spitting cobra (Naja siamensis) Toxicon: X, Volume 7, 2020, Article 100050 Richard J. Harris,…, Bryan G. Fry View PDF Synthetic peptides to produce antivenoms against ...
In examining the sub-acute toxicity of the crude venom of C. andromeda, we found that the sexual activities of the experimental rats increased several minutes after the injections (Mohebbi et al., 2016). This interesting finding implies the presence of a pheromone-like activity of the ATXB ...
The lionfish, originally from the Indo-Pacific, has become established in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea as an exotic invasive species. Its presence can impact native fish and invertebrates by directly preying on them or competing for food resources. Recent findings The venom of...
A 34-year-old man who suffered an ocular bite by a venomous snake, Agkistrodon acutus (hundred-pace snake, one of the most toxic snakes in the world) to his right eye causing subconjunctival hemorrhage, sever necrosis of the corneal endothelium, and exophthalmos [46]. Although he received ...
Unlike Aipysurus which has a relatively stable taxonomic history and is mainly restricted in the Australo-Papuan region, the Hydrophis complex is a far more diverse monophyletic clade that consists of close to 50 species dis- tributed in the waters of Indo-Malayan Archipelago, Indonesia, Australia...
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Conotoxin Diversity in Chelyconus ermineus (Born, 1778) and the Convergent Origin of Piscivory in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Cones. Genome Biol. Evol. 2018, 10, 2643–2662. [CrossRef] [PubMed] 55. Hu, H.; Bandyopadhyay, P.K.; Olivera, B.M.; Yandell, M. Elucidation of the ...
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but also underlined severe neglect of snake families of supposedly minor medical relevance (e.g., Atractaspididae), underrepresentation of some of the areas most impacted by snakebite (i.e., Indomalayan and Afrotropic realms), and limited interest in the ecological and functional context of sna...