background and objective: scorpion sting and snakebite are the important problems in some area such as iran that must be addressed. this study was to investigate temporal pattern of scorpion sting and snakebite incidence in patients referred to masjedsoleiman’s main hospital, during 24 months from 21 march 2008 to 20 march 2009. materials and methods: it was an analytical study to scrutiny of m...

Recent work [Ecoscience (2000) vol. 7, 395-397] suggests that the burying beetle Nicrophorus pustulatus may have undergone a remarkable host shift, exploiting snake eggs rather than carrion as resources for breeding. We conducted behavioural and physiological experiments to examine the hypothesis of a host shift and to formulate hypotheses on its origin. Two congeners of N. pustulatus, Nicropho...

The myocardial effect of snake venoms is considered as one of the most common pathogenesis in many cases of snake envenomation. This study was under taken to investigate the effects of snake (Naja naja oxiana) venom on cardiac function in experimental animals. The blood samples from all the rabbits were collected before venom injection and then 140 µg/kg venom of snake (Naja naja oxiana) was in...

introduction diabetic foot is a clinical disorder, which is commonly seen in patients with diabetes mellitus. it is also the major cause of below knee amputation in the world. there are many underlying causes such as neuropathic, ischemic, and infectious causes for diabetic foot. local or systemic complications may develop after snake bite. case presentation we reported a very rare case, involv...

When Shelley invoked the snake symbolically in this fashion he was hardly doing anything new. The snake's association with death, rebirth and the cycle of nature is practically universal. For the ancient Egyptians the snake was the life of the earth, and there are texts from as early as 2300 B.C. referring to the Quroborus or tail eating serpent, the symbol of the cyclical nature of the cosmos....

reproductive parameters evaluation is considered as helpful tool for gene bank formation in ecological and economically important animals species. gloydius halys caucasicus is venomous, viviparous pit viper of northwest of iran. in this research, the spermatic reproductive parameters of this taxon were studied. twenty six male snakes were collected from takht-e-soleiman region between september...

Snake bite is crucial medical emergency while the success of immediate care and anti-venom therapy mainly depend on the correct identification of culprit snake. We present a simple method for identification of six snake species including Echiscoloratus, Echispyramidum, Cerastescerastesgaspreti, Bitisarieatans, Najahaje Arabica, andWalterinnesiaaegyptia, using the gel filtration chromatographic ...

Abstract: A graph G with p vertices is said to be strongly multiplicative if the vertices of G can be labeled with p consecutive positive integers 1, 2, ..., p such that label induced on the edges by the product of labels of end vertices are all distinct. In this paper we investigate strongly multiplicative labeling of some snake related graphs. We prove that alternate triangular snake and alte...

Snake bite is an important and serious global health issue. Till date anti snake venom serum is the only therapeutic remedy available for treating the snake bite victims. Infusion of ASV may lead to adverse reactions ranging from pruritus, urticaria to potentially fatal anaphylaxis. The development of ASV is also a costly and time consuming process requiring ideal storage conditions. Though Ant...