[HTML][HTML] The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential

AL Oliveira, MF Viegas, SL da Silva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The fascination and fear of snakes dates back to time immemorial, with the first scientific
treatise on snakebite envenoming, the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, dating from ancient Egypt …

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 …

Trends in snakebite deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a nationally representative mortality study

W Suraweera, D Warrell, R Whitaker, G Menon… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The World Health Organization call to halve global snakebite deaths by 2030 will require
substantial progress in India. We analyzed 2833 snakebite deaths from 611,483 verbal …

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 …

Venomics and Peptidomics of Palearctic Vipers: A Clade-Wide Analysis of Seven Taxa of the Genera Vipera, Montivipera, Macrovipera, and Daboia across …

M Damm, M Karış, D Petras… - Journal of proteome …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Snake venom variations are a crucial factor to understand the consequences of snakebite
envenoming worldwide, and therefore it is important to know about toxin composition …

Varespladib in the treatment of snakebite envenoming: development history and preclinical evidence supporting advancement to clinical trials in patients bitten by …

MR Lewin, RW Carter, IA Matteo, SP Samuel, S Rao… - Toxins, 2022 - mdpi.com
The availability of effective, reliably accessible, and affordable treatments for snakebite
envenoming is a critical and long unmet medical need. Recently, small, synthetic toxin …

Biogeographic venom variation in Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) and the preclinical inefficacy of antivenom therapy in snakebite hotspots

RR Senji Laxme, S Khochare, S Attarde… - PLoS neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Snakebite in India results in over 58,000 fatalities and a vast number of
morbidities annually. The majority of these clinically severe envenomings are attributed to …

Biogeographical venom variation in the Indian spectacled cobra (Naja naja) underscores the pressing need for pan-India efficacious snakebite therapy

RR Senji Laxme, S Attarde, S Khochare… - PLOS neglected …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Snake venom composition is dictated by various ecological and environmental
factors, and can exhibit dramatic variation across geographically disparate populations of …

Old World Vipers—a review about snake venom proteomics of Viperinae and their variations

M Damm, BF Hempel, RD Süssmuth - Toxins, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution, snake venoms have frightened but also
fascinated humanity and nowadays they constitute potential resources for drug …

The rise of genomics in snake venom research: recent advances and future perspectives

W Rao, K Kalogeropoulos, ME Allentoft… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Snake venoms represent a danger to human health, but also a gold mine of bioactive
proteins that can be harnessed for drug discovery purposes. The evolution of snakes and …