The blunt-nosed viper Macrovipera lebetina (Linnaeus, 1758) is a medically important snake species in the Middle East. Its nominate subspecies Macrovipera l. lebetina is confined to Cyprus, where it is the only dangerously venomous snake species and heavily pursued. Despite the viper's large size, data o...
Krishnankutty, Sajesh Puthenpurackal;
Muraleedharan, Megha;
Perumal, Rajadurai Chinnasamy;
Michael, Saju;
Benny, Jubina;
Balan, Bipin;
Kumar, Pramod;
Manazhi, Jishnu;
Kumar, Bangaruswamy Dhinoth;
Santhosh, Sam;
Thomas, George;
Gupta, Ravi;
Zachariah, Arun.
The oral cavities of snakes are replete with various types of bacterial flora. Culture-dependent studies suggest that some of the bacterial species are responsible for secondary bacterial infection associated with snakebite. A complete profile of the ophidian oral bacterial community has been unreported ...
Objetivo.Evaluar la relación entre las variables de volumen plaquetario medio (VPM), índice de neutrófilos/linfocitos (INL) e índice de trombocitos/linfocitos (ITL) y el diagnóstico o la predicción del desenlace en los niños con intoxicación por mordedura de serpiente. Métodos.Se realizó una ev...
ABSTRACT Zootherapy (the use of the therapeutic potential of animals) is at least 6,000 years old, and has been kept active throughout generations until modern days. Animal fat is commonly used in the zootherapeutic folk medicine from South America, specially the green anaconda's fat, which is widely pro...
Os elementos químicos, em sua maioria, encontram-se em ciclos bioquímicos e geoquímicos fechados e em concentrações que não causam efeitos nocivos aos organismos. Contudo, ações antrópicas aceleradas promovem alterações ambientais, como o aumento no aporte de contaminantes. Com essas informaç...
Doença do corpúsculo de inclusão (IBD) é uma enfermidade caracterizada por corpúsculos intracitoplasmáticos em diversos tecidos, principalmente no sistema nervoso central, responsável pelos principais sinais clínicos atribuídos à doença que acomete Boas e Phytons de cativeiro; essa enfermidade...
Abstract Erythrolamprus poecilogyrus sublineatus (Cope, 1860), is a species widely distributed in the Pampa Domain, occurring in Rio Grande do Sul, Argentina and Uruguay, mainlyin the pampa region. In the coastal region of southern Brazil this is serpent is considered one of the most abundant. The purpos...
Introdução: Em 2009, o Brasil registrou, aproximadamente, 27.665 acidentes ofídicos, a maioria deles nas regiões Norte e Centro Oeste. Objetivo: Traçar o perfil clínico-epidemiológico dos pacientes vítimas de acidentes ofídicos atendidos no Pronto Socorro do município de Cacoal, Rondônia, no p...
Coimbra, Norberto C;
Paschoalin-Maurin, Tatiana;
Bassi, Gabriel S;
Kanashiro, Alexandre;
Biagioni, Audrey F;
Felippotti, Tatiana T;
Elias-Filho, Daoud H;
Mendes-Gomes, Joyce;
Cysne-Coimbra, Jade P;
Almada, Rafael C;
Lobão-Soares, Bruno.
Objective: To compare prey and snake paradigms performed in complex environments to the elevated plus-maze (EPM) and T-maze (ETM) tests for the study of panic attack- and anticipatory anxiety-like behaviors in rodents. Methods: PubMed was reviewed in search of articles focusing on the plus maze test, EP...
Background Snakes of the genus Bothrops, popularly known as pit vipers, are responsible for most cases of snakebite in Brazil. Within this genus, Bothrops jararacussu and B. jararaca deserve special attention due to the severity of their bites and for inhabiting densely populated areas. Regarding the tr...
