BACKGROUND Scorpions are known as the most widespread poisonous creatures that cause casualties and death to human. They are distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. Among the sixteen Iranian Island in the Persian Gulf, Qeshm Island is the biggest and is located in the focus of the important internal and international commercial marinelines. Furthermore, thousands of tourists also visit t...

Around the world and especially in summer, the scorpion envenomation is a real public health problem. In Morocco, its gravity is due to the diversity of genera of the Buthidae family whose their venom is potentially lethal, mainly the genus Androctonus, Buthus and Hottentota. The areas most affected by this problematic are the central and southern of Morocco. The lethality of scorpion's venom p...

GİRİŞ ve AMAÇ: Akrep zehirleri çeşitli kimyasal maddelerin oluşturduğu oldukça kompleks heterojen karışımlardır. Bu çalışmada, bir akrep türü Mesobuthus gibbosus (Brullé, 1832) (Scorpiones: Buthidae)’un ham zehrinin kanser hücre hatları üzerine sitotoksik antiproliferatif etkileri araştırılmıştır. YÖNTEM GEREÇLER: M. gibbosus’dan elde edilen zehrin iki insan hattı (MCF-7 meme kanseri A549 akciğ...

Two new humicolous micro-buthid species belonging to the genus MicroananterisLourenço, 2003 are described from French Guiana. The descriptions based on two adult specimens collected in organic soil with use of extraction by Berlese method. discoveries bring further support validity Microananteris. geographic distribution known Microananteris remains limited only territory