 Elapidae
"Elapidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A family of extremely venomous snakes which include coral snakes, cobras and sea snakes. They are widely distributed, occurring in the Southern United States, South America, Africa, Southern Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. Like viperids (VIPERIDAE), they have fangs in the front part of the upper jaw which discharge venom that is neurotoxic.
| Descriptor ID |
D017815
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.672.125.875
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| Concept/Terms |
Elapidae- Elapidae
- Elapid Snakes
- Elapid Snake
- Snake, Elapid
- Snakes, Elapid
- Elapids
- Elapid
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Elapidae" by people in Profiles.
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Greene SC, Osborn L, Bower R, Harding SA, Takenaka K. Monocled Cobra (Naja kaouthia) Envenomations Requiring Mechanical Ventilation. J Emerg Med. 2021 Feb; 60(2):197-201.
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Streicher JW, McEntee JP, Drzich LC, Card DC, Schield DR, Smart U, Parkinson CL, Jezkova T, Smith EN, Castoe TA. Genetic surfing, not allopatric divergence, explains spatial sorting of mitochondrial haplotypes in venomous coralsnakes. Evolution. 2016 Jul; 70(7):1435-49.
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McIntosh SE, Cushing TA, Keyes LE, Pollock NW. Bites, bugs, and blood. Wilderness Environ Med. 2015 Jun; 26(2):113-4.
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Sasaki J, Khalil PA, Chegondi M, Raszynski A, Meyer KG, Totapally BR. Coral snake bites and envenomation in children: a case series. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014 Apr; 30(4):262-5.
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Vonk FJ, Casewell NR, Henkel CV, Heimberg AM, Jansen HJ, McCleary RJ, Kerkkamp HM, Vos RA, Guerreiro I, Calvete JJ, W?ster W, Woods AE, Logan JM, Harrison RA, Castoe TA, de Koning AP, Pollock DD, Yandell M, Calderon D, Renjifo C, Currier RB, Salgado D, Pla D, Sanz L, Hyder AS, Ribeiro JM, Arntzen JW, van den Thillart GE, Boetzer M, Pirovano W, Dirks RP, Spaink HP, Duboule D, McGlinn E, Kini RM, Richardson MK. The king cobra genome reveals dynamic gene evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec 17; 110(51):20651-6.
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Castoe TA, Streicher JW, Meik JM, Ingrasci MJ, Poole AW, de Koning AP, Campbell JA, Parkinson CL, Smith EN, Pollock DD. Thousands of microsatellite loci from the venomous coralsnake Micrurus fulvius and variability of select loci across populations and related species. Mol Ecol Resour. 2012 Nov; 12(6):1105-13.
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Castoe TA, Gu W, de Koning AP, Daza JM, Jiang ZJ, Parkinson CL, Pollock DD. Dynamic nucleotide mutation gradients and control region usage in squamate reptile mitochondrial genomes. Cytogenet Genome Res. 2009; 127(2-4):112-27.
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Zallen G, Moore EE, Johnson JL, Tamura DY, Barkin M, Stockinger H, Silliman CC. New mechanisms by which secretory phospholipase A2 stimulates neutrophils to provoke the release of cytotoxic agents. Arch Surg. 1998 Nov; 133(11):1229-33.
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