Abstract INTRODUCTION: The coral snake Micrurus surinamensis, which is widely distributed throughout Amazonia, has a neurotoxic venom. It is important to characterize the biological and molecular properties of this venom in order to develop effective antitoxins. METHODS: Toxins from the venom of M. s...
Background The cysteine-rich neurotoxins from elapid venoms are primarily responsible for human and animal envenomation; however, their low concentration in the venom may hamper the production of efficient elapid antivenoms. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to produce fully active elapid neur...
Cytotoxicity of venoms from eleven medically important snakes found in Southeast Asia (Naja kaouthia, Naja siamensis, Naja sumatrana, Ophiophagus hannah, Bungarus candidus, Bungarus fasciatus, Enhydrina schistosa, Calloselasma rhodostoma, Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus and Tropidolaemus sumatranus) was d...
In tropical countries like Bangladesh, persons are bitten by snakes every day and a considerable number of patients die en route to the hospital. An event of consecutive neurotoxic bites on two men by a single snake was observed in the Snake Bite Study Clinic (SBSC) of the Chittagong Medical College Hosp...
The immunohistochemical expression of neuron-specific enolase, NSE (a cytoplasmic glycolytic enzyme of the neurons), synaptophysin, SYN (a major membrane glycoprotein of synaptic vesicles), and Bcl-2 (anti-apoptotic protein) were determined in cerebral cortex of rats envenomed with neurotoxic venom from ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the therapeutic action of flunixin meglumine and aqueous extract of Curcuma longa (10 percent) on local lesions caused by bothropic venom, comparing with the specific antivenom. Twelve adult dogs were inoculated in the middle third of the lateral face of the thigh wi...
The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of Hepatozoon spp. infection in recently captured snakes from Botucatu, Säo Paulo State, Brazil. Blood was collected from all snakes by ventral tail venipuncture. Blood smears were air dried, fixed with methanol, and stained with 10 percent Giemsa s...
No presente estudo é descrita a infecçäo por trematódeos digenéticos parasitas da cavidade oral e esôfago em uma populaçäo de serpentes Bothrops moojeni provenientes de resgate de fauna em Porto Primavera, Estado de Säo Paulo. Foi observada prevalência de infecçäo de 68 por cento. O grau de i...
Wen, Fan Hui;
Cardoso, João Luiz Costa;
Málaque, Ceila Maria Sant'ana;
França, Francisco Oscar Siqueira;
Sant'anna, Sávio Estefanini;
Fernandes, Wilson;
Furtado, Maria de Fátima;
Franco, Francisco Luiz;
Albuquerque, Maria de Jesus;
Kronca, Francisco José;
Nalon, Marco Aurélio;
Rúbio, Gisélia Burigo Guimarães;
Silva, Emanuel Marques da;
Leite, Júlio César Moura.
BACKGROUND: Geographical distribution of snakebites and snakes of medical importance has a strong correlation with changes in the vegetation cover as a consequence of the expansion of agricultural frontiers. In São Paulo (SP) and Paraná (PR) the process of land occupation has led to a radical transform...
