Causes and consequences of snake venom variation

NR Casewell, TNW Jackson, AH Laustsen… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Snake venoms are mixtures of toxins that vary extensively between and within snake
species. This variability has serious consequences for the management of the world's 1.8 …

Multifunctional toxins in snake venoms and therapeutic implications: from pain to hemorrhage and necrosis

CR Ferraz, A Arrahman, C **e, NR Casewell… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Animal venoms have evolved over millions of years for prey capture and defense from
predators and rivals. Snake venoms, in particular, have evolved a wide diversity of peptides …

Clinical aspects of snakebite envenoming and its treatment in low-resource settings

DA Warrell, DJ Williams - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
There is increasing recognition of the public health importance of snakebite envenoming.
Worldwide annual incidence is likely to be 5 million bites, with mortality exceeding 150 000 …

A therapeutic combination of two small molecule toxin inhibitors provides broad preclinical efficacy against viper snakebite

LO Albulescu, C **e, S Ainsworth, J Alsolaiss… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Snakebite is a medical emergency causing high mortality and morbidity in rural tropical
communities that typically experience delayed access to unaffordable therapeutics. Viperid …

A current perspective on snake venom composition and constituent protein families

T Tasoulis, GK Isbister - Archives of toxicology, 2023 - Springer
Snake venoms are heterogeneous mixtures of proteins and peptides used for prey
subjugation. With modern proteomics there has been a rapid expansion in our knowledge of …

Snake venom gland organoids

Y Post, J Puschhof, J Beumer, HM Kerkkamp… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Wnt dependency and Lgr5 expression define multiple mammalian epithelial stem cell types.
Under defined growth factor conditions, such adult stem cells (ASCs) grow as 3D organoids …

Snakebite: When the human touch becomes a bad touch

BG Fry - Toxins, 2018 - mdpi.com
Many issues and complications in treating snakebite are a result of poor human social,
economic and clinical intervention and management. As such, there is scope for significant …

High-throughput venomics

J Slagboom, RJE Derks, R Sadighi… - Journal of Proteome …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this study, we present high-throughput (HT) venomics, a novel analytical strategy capable
of performing a full proteomic analysis of a snake venom within 3 days. This methodology …

An analysis of preclinical efficacy testing of antivenoms for sub-Saharan Africa: Inadequate independent scrutiny and poor-quality reporting are barriers to improving …

S Ainsworth, SK Menzies, NR Casewell… - PLOS Neglected …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background The World Health Organization's strategy to halve snakebite mortality and
morbidity by 2030 includes an emphasis on a risk-benefit process assessing the preclinical …

Preclinical validation of a repurposed metal chelator as an early-intervention therapeutic for hemotoxic snakebite

LO Albulescu, MS Hale, S Ainsworth… - Science translational …, 2020 - science.org
Snakebite envenoming causes 138,000 deaths annually, and~ 400,000 victims are left with
permanent disabilities. Envenoming by saw-scaled vipers (Viperidae: Echis) leads to …