Objective: In folk and TCM clinical medicine, Chinese herbal medicine is used to treat snakebite and has good curative effect, but its active ingredients and mechanism are still unclear. In this study, virtual screeni...
This study evaluated the effects of purified paper wasp Ropalidia marginata venoms on various biomolecules in the blood serum of albino mice. Changes in the concentration of some important macromolecules, i.e., protei...
supported by Major International(Regional)Joint Research Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant no.31620103915);the Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(32072480);the Program for Chinese Innovation Team in Key Areas of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China(2016RA4008);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2021FZZX001-31)。
DearEditor,Venomous animals,such as snakes,insects(wasps,bees,ants,and some bugs),spiders,scorpions,and cone snails,use venom for predation and/or defense.Venom is mostly composed of proteinsand peptides.Because of th...
Trypanosomiasis afflicts about 6~7 million people globally and to a large extent impedes livestock production in Africa.Naturally,trypanosomal parasites undergo genetic mutation and have developed resistance over a wi...
supported by the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320RC473);the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(31830074);the Major International(Regional)Joint Research Project of NSFC(31620103915);the Program for Chinese Innovation Team in Key Areas of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China(2016RA4008);the Program for Chinese Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Scientific Research of the Min・istry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China;the Hainan University Foundation(KYQD(ZR)1963,KYQD(ZR)1951).
To achieve successful development,female parasitoids,while laying eggs,introduce various virulence factors,mainly venoms,into host insects to manipulate their physiology.Although numerous studies have been conducted t...
supported by a grant from the National Institute of Biological Resources(NIBR);funded by the Ministry of Environment(MOE);Republic of Korea(grant number NIBR202009201).
Salivary gland-specific transcriptomes of nine heteropteran insects with distinct feeding strategies (predaceous, hematophagous, and phytophagous) were analyzed and annotated to compare and identify the venom componen...
This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board(IRB)Institutional of Plant Protection and Microbiology,Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences.The approval code is 2020AWE061801;The approval date is June 19,2020.
Venom plays several important roles in the life of the fire ant,Solenopsis invicta Buren.Laboratory rearing significantly affected the toxin component of S.invicta.However,the molecular mechanism of the change of veno...
BACKGROUND Venom-induced consumption coagulopathy(VICC)is characterized by coagulation dysfunction accompanied by decreased coagulation factor activity and fibrinogen(FBG)concentrations.We report a patient with VICC c...
the Key Program of Na-tional Natural Science Foundation of China(31830074);the Major International(Regional)Joint Research Project of NSFC(31620103915);the Program for Chinese Inno-vation Team in Key Areas of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China(2016RA4008);the Program for Chinese Outstanding Talents in Agricultural Scientific Research of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Af-fairs of the People's Republic of China.
The immune interactions occurring between parasitoids and their host insects,especially in Drosophila-wasp models,have long been the research focus of insect immunology and parasitology.Parasitoid infestation in Droso...
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...