Search Results - "Yang, Daryl C."
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Differential Evolution and Neofunctionalization of Snake Venom Metalloprotease Domains
Published in Molecular & cellular proteomics (01-03-2013)“…Snake venom metalloproteases (SVMP) are composed of five domains: signal peptide, propeptide, metalloprotease, disintegrin, and cysteine-rich. Secreted toxins…”
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The Snake with the Scorpion's Sting: Novel Three-Finger Toxin Sodium Channel Activators from the Venom of the Long-Glanded Blue Coral Snake (Calliophis bivirgatus)
Published in Toxins (18-10-2016)“…Millions of years of evolution have fine-tuned the ability of venom peptides to rapidly incapacitate both prey and potential predators. Toxicofera reptiles are…”
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Rattling the border wall: Pathophysiological implications of functional and proteomic venom variation between Mexican and US subspecies of the desert rattlesnake Crotalus scutulatus
Published in Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Toxicology & pharmacology (01-02-2018)“…While some US populations of the Mohave rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus scutulatus) are infamous for being potently neurotoxic, the Mexican subspecies C. s…”
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The Bold and the Beautiful: a Neurotoxicity Comparison of New World Coral Snakes in the Micruroides and Micrurus Genera and Relative Neutralization by Antivenom
Published in Neurotoxicity research (01-10-2017)“…Coral snake envenomations are well characterized to be lethally neurotoxic. Despite this, few multispecies, neurotoxicity and antivenom efficacy comparisons…”
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How the Cobra Got Its Flesh-Eating Venom: Cytotoxicity as a Defensive Innovation and Its Co-Evolution with Hooding, Aposematic Marking, and Spitting
Published in Toxins (13-03-2017)“…The cytotoxicity of the venom of 25 species of Old World elapid snake was tested and compared with the morphological and behavioural adaptations of hooding and…”
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Venom proteomic characterization and relative antivenom neutralization of two medically important Pakistani elapid snakes (Bungarus sindanus and Naja naja)
Published in Journal of proteomics (26-08-2013)“…Intra- and interspecific variation in venom composition has been shown to have a major effect upon the efficacy of antivenoms. Due to the absence of…”
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Vintage venoms: Proteomic and pharmacological stability of snake venoms stored for up to eight decades
Published in Journal of proteomics (13-06-2014)“…For over a century, venom samples from wild snakes have been collected and stored around the world. However, the quality of storage conditions for “vintage”…”
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Differential Evolution and Neofunctionalization of Snake Venom Metalloprotease Domains
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