objective(s): snake venoms contain complex mixture of proteins with biological activities. some of these proteins affect blood coagulation and platelet function in different ways. snake venom toxin may serve as a starting material for drug design to combat several pathophysiological problems such as cardiovascular disorders. in the present study, purification of anticoagulation factor from veno...

BACKGROUND Snakebites in snake handlers are an important clinical problem that may differ to bites in the general population. AIM To investigate the epidemiology and clinical presentation of bites in snake handlers. DESIGN Prospective observational study. METHODS Bites in snake handlers recruited as part of the Australian Snakebite Project (ASP) from 2004 to 2011 were included in the stud...

This paper presents performance results of a new data partitioning technique: snake partitioning , a data decomposition technique than can be derived at compile-time. Snake partitioning is suitable for multidimensional arrays with restricted aane references. The technique derives the data partitioning of these arrays and an execution order that exploits locality in loops. Experiments that compa...

The review is mainly devoted to snake venom a-neurotoxins which target different muscle-type and neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. The primary and spatial structures of other snake venom proteins as well as mammalian proteins of the Ly-6 family, which structurally resemble the `three-finger' snake proteins, are also briefly discussed. The main emphasis is placed on recent data charact...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy occurs in patients with severe emotional or physiologic stress. The prognosis is usually favorable, and the left ventricular wall motion dyskinesis normalizes within days to weeks. In this paper we report a case of snake bite complicated by takotsubo cardiomyopathy. We advise physicians to consider not only cardioinhibitory effect of snake venom but also takotsubo cardi...

The article describes a new technology for real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection of nucleic acids. Similar to Taqman, this new method, named Snake, utilizes the 5'-nuclease activity of Thermus aquaticus (Taq) DNA polymerase that cleaves dual-labeled Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) probes and generates a fluorescent signal during PCR. However, the mechanism of the probe cl...

27 Available data suggest that snake hemoglobins (Hbs) are characterized by a combination of unusual 28 structural and functional properties relative to the Hbs of other amniote vertebrates, including 29 oxygenation-linked tetramer-dimer dissociation. However, standardized comparative data are lacking for 30 snake Hbs, and the Hb isoform composition of snake red blood cells has not been systema...

Available data suggest that snake hemoglobins (Hbs) are characterized by a combination of unusual structural and functional properties relative to the Hbs of other amniote vertebrates, including oxygenation-linked tetramer-dimer dissociation. However, standardized comparative data are lacking for snake Hbs, and the Hb isoform composition of snake red blood cells has not been systematically char...

INTRODUCTION Exotic pets are increasingly popular in Hong Kong and include fish, amphibians, reptiles, and arthropods. Some of these exotic animals are venomous and may cause injuries to and envenomation of their owners. The clinical experience of emergency physicians in the management of injuries and envenomation by these exotic animals is limited. We reviewed the clinical features and outcome...

Snakebite envenoming is an important public health problem in many tropical and subtropical countries, and is considered a neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization. Most severe cases are inflicted by species of the families Elapidae and Viperidae, and lead to a number of systemic and local effects in the victim. One of the main problems regarding viperidic accidents is promin...