While traditional approaches for disease management in the era of modern medicine have saved countless lives and enhanced patient well‐being, it is clear that there is significant …
Snake venoms are complex mixtures of pharmacologically active peptides and proteins. These protein toxins belong to a small number of superfamilies of proteins. Three-finger …
Z Jiang, J Guan, J Qian, C Zhan - Biomaterials science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted drug delivery is emerging as a promising strategy to achieve better clinical outcomes. Actively targeted drug delivery that utilizes overexpressed receptors or antigens …
Snakebite is classified by the WHO as a neglected tropical disease. Envenoming is a significant public health problem in tropical and subtropical regions. Neurotoxicity is a key …
The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shopping" to all biologists, biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …
Animal venom components are of considerable interest to researchers across a wide variety of disciplines, including molecular biology, biochemistry, medicine, and evolutionary …
Nanoparticle‐based drug delivery and imaging platforms have become increasingly popular over the past several decades. Among different design parameters that can affect their …
S Nirthanan, MCE Gwee - Journal of pharmacological sciences, 2004 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The discovery, about forty years ago, of a-bungarotoxin, a three-finger a-neurotoxin from Bungarus multicinctus venom, enabled the isolation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor …
J Pawlak, SP Mackessy, BG Fry, M Bhatia… - Journal of Biological …, 2006 - ASBMB
Boiga dendrophila (mangrove catsnake) is a colubrid snake that lives in Southeast Asian lowland rainforests and mangrove swamps and that preys primarily on birds. We have …