Background Envenoming resulting from snakebites is an important public health problem in
many tropical and subtropical countries. Few attempts have been made to quantify the …

Local and systemic skeletal muscle degeneration is a common consequence of
envenomations due to snakebites and mass bee attacks. Phospholipases A2 (PLA2) are …

The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shopping" to all biologists,
biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …

Zinc-dependent metalloproteinases are responsible for the hemorrhagic activity
characteristic of viperid snake venoms. Snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs) are …

We report the comparative proteomic characterization of the venoms of adult and newborn
specimens of the lancehead pitviper Bothrops asper from two geographically isolated …

Hemorrhage is one of the most significant effects in envenomings induced by viperid
snakebites. Damage to the microvasculature, induced by snake venom metalloproteinases …

In 1984, the first venom phospholipase A2 (PLA2) with a lysine substituting for the highly
conserved aspartate 49 was discovered, in the North American crotalid snake Agkistrodon p …

Bothrops asper inflicts the majority of snakebites in Central America and in the northern
regions of South America, mostly affecting young agricultural workers in rural settings. This …

The Amazon region reports the highest incidence of snakebite envenomings in Brazil. We
aimed to describe the epidemiology of snakebites in the state of Amazonas and to …

Envenomations by Bothrops asper are often associated with complex and severe local
pathological manifestations, including edema, blistering, dermonecrosis, myonecrosis and …