Snakes, scorpions, and spiders are venomous animals that pose a threat to human health,
and severe envenomings from the bites or stings of these animals must be treated with …

Animal venoms are complex mixtures containing peptides and proteins known as toxins,
which are responsible for the deleterious effect of envenomations. Across the animal …

Antivenoms are fundamental in the therapy for snakebites. In elapid venoms, there are
toxins, eg short-chain α-neurotoxins, which are quite abundant, highly toxic, and …

Venoms are complex chemical arsenals that have evolved independently many times in the
animal kingdom. Venoms have attracted the interest of researchers because they are an …

The three-fingered toxin family and more precisely short-chain α-neurotoxins (also known as
Type I α-neurotoxins) are crucial in defining the elapid envenomation process, but …

The three-finger toxins (3FTxs) represent an extremely diverse protein family in elapid
venoms, where the short chain α-neurotoxins are the most relevant toxin group from the …

An mRNA transcript that codes for a Disintegrin and a Metalloprotease from a venom gland
of the viper Bothrops ammodytoides was isolated. Vector pCR® 2.1-TOPO was used to …

The gene of the four disulfide-bridged defensin J1-1 from Capsicum was cloned into the
expression vector pQE30 containing a 6His-tag as fusion protein. This construct was …

Abstract The coralsnake Micrurus dumerilii (Elapidae) is reported to cause envenomings of
medical importance. Previous studies characterized the protein composition of its venom …

Micrurus dumerilii is a coral snake of clinic interest in Colombia. Its venom is mainly
composed of phospholipases A2 being MdumPLA2 the most abundant protein …