naja atra venom, has been reported to have cytotoxic activity. CTX III exerted cytotoxicity with
the S-phase cell cycle arrest, correlated with a marked decrease in the expression levels of
cyclin A, cyclin B, and cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1), and apoptosis, accompanied with
Bax and Bad up-regulation, and the down-regulation of Bcl-2, p-Bad, and X-linked inhibitor
of apoptosis (XIAP) with cytochrome c release and sequential activation of caspase-9 and …