Crotalus Durissus Ruruima: Current Knowledge on Natural History, Medical Importance, and Clinical Toxinology

MB Pucca, PS Bernarde, AM Rocha, PF Viana… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Crotalus durissus ruruima is a rattlesnake subspecies mainly found in Roraima, the
northernmost state of Brazil. Envenomings caused by this subspecies lead to severe clinical …

Biological and Medical Aspects Related to South American Rattlesnake Crotalus durissus (Linnaeus, 1758): A View from Colombia

CA Cañas - Toxins, 2022 - mdpi.com
In Colombia, South America, there is a subspecies of the South American rattlesnake
Crotalus durissus, C. d. cumanensis, a snake of the Viperidae family, whose presence has …

Purification, Characterization and Evaluation of the Antitumoral Activity of a Phospholipase A2 from the Snake Bothrops moojeni

BEF Frihling, APA Boleti, CFR de Oliveira… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nature presents a wide range of biomolecules with pharmacological potential, including
venomous animal proteins. Among the protein components from snake venoms …

Biochemical and biological characterization of a PLA2 from crotoxin complex of Crotalus durissus cumanensis

JA Pereañez, V Núñez, S Huancahuire-Vega… - Toxicon, 2009 - Elsevier
A new PLA2 (Cdcum6) from crotoxin complex of Colombian Crotalus durissus cumanensis
rattlesnake was purified using molecular exclusion chromatography and RP-HPLC. The …

Structural studies with crotoxin B from Crotalus durissus collilineatus venom suggest a heterodimeric assembly formed by two new isoforms

GHM Salvador, CAH Fernandes, RJ Borges… - Biochimie, 2024 - Elsevier
In accidents involving Crotalus snakes, the crotoxin complex (CTX) plays lethal action due to
its neurotoxic activity. On the other hand, CTX have potential biotechnological application …

A preliminary investigation into the venom proteome of Macrovipera lebetina obtusa (Dwigubsky, 1832) from Southeastern Anatolia by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry and …

N Igci, DO Demiralp - Archives of toxicology, 2012 - Springer
We compared venoms of two subspecies of blunt-nosed viper Macrovipera lebetina
(Linnaeus, 1758) from Southeastern Anatolia and Cyprus by two-dimensional gel …

Enzymatic and structural characterization of new PLA2 isoform isolated from white venom of Crotalus durissus ruruima

EBS Diz Filho, S Marangoni, DO Toyama… - Toxicon, 2009 - Elsevier
This work reports the structural and enzymatic characterization of a new sPLA2 from the
white venom of Crotalus durissus ruruima, nominated PLA2A. The homogeneity of the …

Neuromuscular effects of venoms and crotoxin-like proteins from Crotalus durissus ruruima and Crotalus durissus cumanensis

WLG Cavalcante, LA Ponce-Soto, S Marangoni… - Toxicon, 2015 - Elsevier
A myographic study was performed to compare the neuromuscular effects of venoms and
crotoxin-like proteins from Crotalus durissus ruruima and Crotalus durissus cumanensis in …

Functional and structural characterization of a new serine protease with thrombin-like activity TLBan from Bothrops andianus (Andean Lancehead) snake venom

JA Valeriano-Zapana, FS Segovia-Cruz… - Toxicon, 2012 - Elsevier
A new serine protease with thrombin-like activity (TLBan) from Bothrops andianus (Andean
Lancehead) was isolated in two chromatographic steps in LC molecular exclusion and …

Structural and functional characterization of brazilitoxins II and III (BbTX-II and-III), two myotoxins from the venom of Bothrops brazili snake

S Huancahuire-Vega, LA Ponce-Soto… - Toxicon, 2009 - Elsevier
We report the purification and biochemical/pharmacological characterization of two myotoxic
PLA2 (BbTX-II K49 PLA2 homologue and BbTX-III PLA2) from Bothrops brazili venom. Both …