 Snake Venoms
"Snake Venoms" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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Solutions or mixtures of toxic and nontoxic substances elaborated by snake (Ophidia) salivary glands for the purpose of killing prey or disabling predators and delivered by grooved or hollow fangs. They usually contain enzymes, toxins, and other factors.
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D012910
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.888.850 D23.946.833.850
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| Concept/Terms |
Snake Venoms- Snake Venoms
- Venoms, Snake
- Snake Venom
- Venom, Snake
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Snake Venoms" by people in Profiles.
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Smith CF, Nikolakis ZL, Perry BW, Schield DR, Meik JM, Saviola AJ, Castoe TA, Parker J, Mackessy SP. The best of both worlds? Rattlesnake hybrid zones generate complex combinations of divergent venom phenotypes that retain high toxicity. Biochimie. 2023 Oct; 213:176-189.
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Smith CF, Nikolakis ZL, Ivey K, Perry BW, Schield DR, Balchan NR, Parker J, Hansen KC, Saviola AJ, Castoe TA, Mackessy SP. Snakes on a plain: biotic and abiotic factors determine venom compositional variation in a wide-ranging generalist rattlesnake. BMC Biol. 2023 06 06; 21(1):136.
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Westfall AK, Gopalan SS, Perry BW, Adams RH, Saviola AJ, Mackessy SP, Castoe TA. Single-Cell Heterogeneity in Snake Venom Expression Is Hardwired by Co-Option of Regulators from Progressively Activated Pathways. Genome Biol Evol. 2023 Jun 01; 15(6).
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Schield DR, Perry BW, Adams RH, Holding ML, Nikolakis ZL, Gopalan SS, Smith CF, Parker JM, Meik JM, DeGiorgio M, Mackessy SP, Castoe TA. The roles of balancing selection and recombination in the evolution of rattlesnake venom. Nat Ecol Evol. 2022 09; 6(9):1367-1380.
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Gopalan SS, Perry BW, Schield DR, Smith CF, Mackessy SP, Castoe TA. Origins, genomic structure and copy number variation of snake venom myotoxins. Toxicon. 2022 Sep; 216:92-106.
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Perry BW, Gopalan SS, Pasquesi GIM, Schield DR, Westfall AK, Smith CF, Koludarov I, Chippindale PT, Pellegrino MW, Chuong EB, Mackessy SP, Castoe TA. Snake venom gene expression is coordinated by novel regulatory architecture and the integration of multiple co-opted vertebrate pathways. Genome Res. 2022 06; 32(6):1058-1073.
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Modahl CM, Saviola AJ, Mackessy SP. Integration of transcriptomic and proteomic approaches for snake venom profiling. Expert Rev Proteomics. 2021 10; 18(10):827-834.
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Kalita B, Saviola AJ, Samuel SP, Mukherjee AK. State-of-the-art review - A review on snake venom-derived antithrombotics: Potential therapeutics for COVID-19-associated thrombosis? Int J Biol Macromol. 2021 Dec 01; 192:1040-1057.
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Kalita B, Saviola AJ, Mukherjee AK. From venom to drugs: a review and critical analysis of Indian snake venom toxins envisaged as anticancer drug prototypes. Drug Discov Today. 2021 04; 26(4):993-1005.
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Brandehoff N, Smith CF, Buchanan JA, Mackessy SP, Bonney CF. First reported case of thrombocytopenia from a Heterodon nasicus envenomation. Toxicon. 2019 Jan; 157:12-17.
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