Envenenamentos por serpentes do gênero Bothrops provocam reações sistêmicas e locais
como coagulopatias, hemorragias, reação inflamatória, dor e mionecrose. Proteínas …

No Brasil, acidentes com escorpiões são considerados de importância médicosanitária, não
somente por sua incidência, mas também pela potencialidade do veneno de algumas …

No Brasil, diversas espécies de escorpiões são conhecidas por provocar acidentes que
podem levar ao óbito, sendo estas pertencentes principalmente ao gênero Tityus. O …

Derivatives of Maurotoxin (MTX) in which the native disulfide bridge pattern (Cys3-Cys24,
Cys9-Cys29, Cys19, Cys31-Cys34) has been disrupted are useful for the treatment of …

Numerous studies produced in the last 30 years, come elucidating structures and biological
activities of various components of animal venoms, showing their complex compositions …

Toxins from animal venoms are small peptide molecules able to interact with a wide range of
specific cellular targets in order to modulate their activity, which enables them to act in many …

Background: venoms of a variety of animal species (ie scorpions, snakes, spiders, sea
anemones, marine cone snails, worms, and insects) are rich sources of bioactive …

Maurocalcine is a 33-mer peptide initially isolated from the venom of a Tunisian scorpion. It
has proved itself valuable as a pharmacological activator of the ryanodine receptor, and has …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common auto-immune disease (Nishimoto and
Kishimoto, 2004), affecting 1% of the population (McInnes and Schett, 2007). Despite this …