POTENTIAL ANTIDOTE TO SNAKE VENOM MYOTOXIN

Snake Venom, Anti-snake Venom & Potential of Snake Venom

Many active secretions produced by animals have been employed in the development of new drugs to treat diseases such as hypertension and cancer. Snake venom toxins contributed significantly to the treatment of many medical conditions. Venomous snakes have a bad reputation and rightly so because of their often deadly bites. But what makes a snake’s bite so deadly is the venom. Of the 3000 snake ...

Therapeutic Potential of Snake Venom

Annually 2.5 million people are bitten by snakes, more than 100,000 fatally. In India a large no of people suffer and die every year due to snake venom poisoning. Venom has been used in the treatment of a variety of pathophysiological conditions in Ayurveda, homeopathy and folk medicine. Snake venom is a natural biological resource, containing a complex mixture of enzymes, peptides and protein ...

Strychnine as an Antidote to Snake-Poison

From Endotoxin to Snake Venom **

The host-parasite relationship in many infectious diseases of animals and of man continues to challenge the knowledge and imagination, not only of microbiologists and those in other basic disciplines, but that of clinicians as well. There remain many unexplained features of this relationship bearing on the problem as to why invading microorganisms cause illness. One aspect of this relationship ...

The Global Snake Bite Initiative: an antidote for snake bite.

Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many people living in these regions, including some of the world’s poorest communities, snake bite is an ever present occupational risk and environmental hazard, an additional penalty of poverty. Like malaria, deng...