Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) is the key enzyme to the venom from Deinagkistrodon acutus which is one of the highly venomous snakes in China. In addition to being a catalyst for the hydrolysis of phospholipases A2 from snak...
Background: Ophidian envenomation is common in Sub-Saharan Africa, and its management is hampered by the lack of access to healthcare services in rural areas, in particular the availability and appropriate use of anti...
Objective:To evaluate the neutralizing effects of flavonoids on snake venom toxicity by stand-alone and combinatorial approaches.Methods:Synthetic flavonoids were assessed,either individually or in combination with an...
funded by a China Scholarship Council(CSC)fellowship(201706250035);support from a UK Medical Research Council(MRC)Research Grant(MR/S00016X/1);Confidence in Concept Award(Ci C19017,UK);a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship(200517/Z/16/Z,UK)jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society
Repurposing small molecule drugs and drug candidates is considered as a promising approach to revolutionise the treatment of snakebite envenoming.In this study,we investigated the inhibiting effects of the small molec...
Background: About 50 species of scorpions cause fatal scorpionism worldwide.Most of these are members of the Buthidae family, and include, among others,Mesobuthus eupeus, Androctonus crassicauda, Leiurus abdullahbayra...
This study was supported by grants from the Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province (No. SY [2013]3067) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81560217).
Background:Snakebites are a neglected threat to global human health with a high morbidity rate.The present study explored the efficacy of antivenom with hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) intervention on snakebites,which coul...
Antivenom is the most effective method currently available for the treatment of poisonous snake bite. Allergic reactions to antivenom have been reported in the past. Here we shared a case of allergic re- actions to an...
Neuromuscular junction is the main target for snakebites, which venoms act depending on the snake genus for paralyzing the prey (neurotoxicity) or for facilitating the digestion processes of the victim (myotoxicity...
Periyar College of Pharmacecutical Sciences Periyar Maniammai University,Thiruchirappalli,Tamilnadu for his constant support and providingg facilities to carry out this work successfully;King Institute of Preventive Medicine,Guindy,Chennai,is also thanked for the Naja nigricollis venom support
Objective:To validate traditional claims of usefulness of the Indian plants in management of poisonous snakebite and evaluate the antivenom properties displayed bv the alcoholic extracts of Andrographis paniculata(A....