Palearctic vipers are medically significant snakes in the genera Daboia, Macrovipera,
Montivipera, and Vipera which occur throughout Europe, Central Asia, Near and Middle …

The assessment of the capacity of antivenoms to neutralize the lethal activity of snake
venoms is the gold standard in the preclinical analysis of antivenom efficacy, and is routinely …

Venoms of many snakes induce neurotoxic effects in animals. Among the first inducers of
such symptoms to be identified was a group of proteins that belongs to the phospholipase …

The role of diet in venom composition has been a topic of intense research interest. This
work presents evidence that the variation in the venom composition from the scorpion Tityus …

Context: In clinical practice it is difficult to differentiate between V. berus and V. ammodytes
venomous bites. In the past this was not a concern, but due to the current shortage in …

The karst viper (Vipera ursinii ssp.) favours high-mountain dry grasslands in southern and
south-eastern Croatia. It is medically less important than other Vipera species, because of its …

The European continent is inhabited by medically important venomous Viperinae snakes.
Vipera ammodytes, Vipera berus, and Vipera aspis cause the greatest public health …

Due to its various structures in bio-compounds, snake venom is the indisputable result of
evolutionary stages of molecules with an increasingly complex structure, high specificity …

Results: The IC 50 value of V. ammodytes venom obtained by these methods was very
similar, while the EC 50 values differed significantly. Conclusions: We concluded that the …

Antivenom raised against the venom of nose-horned viper, Vipera ammodytes (V. a.)
ammodytes (European viper venom antiserum, Zagreb antivenom), contains neutralising …