Animal venoms are used as defense mechanisms or to immobilize and digest prey. In fact,
venoms are complex mixtures of enzymatic and non-enzymatic components with specific …

Snake venoms are complex mixtures containing many different biologically active proteins
and peptides. A number of these proteins interact with components of the human hemostatic …

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

Over the last several decades, research on snake venom toxins has provided not only new
tools to decipher molecular details of various physiological processes, but also inspiration to …

Snake venom contains mixture of bioactive proteins and polypeptides. Most of these
proteins and polypeptides exist as monomers, but some of them form complexes in the …

Toxins from Bothrops venoms targeting hemostasis are responsible for a broad range of
clinical and biological syndromes including local and systemic bleeding, incoagulability …

Snake venoms are complex mixtures of biologically active proteins and peptides. Many of
them affect hemostasis by activating or inhibiting coagulant factors or platelets, or by …

Venom is a key adaptive innovation in snakes, and how nonvenom genes were co-opted to
become part of the toxin arsenal is a significant evolutionary question. While this process …

C-type lectin-like proteins (CLPs) have a variety of biological activities, including
anticoagulant-and platelet-modulating activities but have no lectin activity. CLPs are made …

Glycyrrhizin (GL), an anti-inflammatory compound isolated fromGlycyrrhiza glabra, was
identified as a new thrombin inhibitor:(a) It prolonged plasma recalcification and thrombin …