Venomous animals have evolved with sophisticated bio-chemical strategies to arrest prey and defend themselves from natural predators. In recent years, peptide toxins from venomous animals have drawn considerable attention from researchers due to their surprising chemical, biochemical, and pharmacological diversity. Similar to other venomous animals, centipedes are one of the crucial venomous ar...

aims: venomous snake bites are public health problems in different parts of the world. the most specific mainstay in the treatment of envenomation is anti-venom. to treat the envenomation, it is very important to identify the offending species. this study was designed to determine the penetrating pattern of fangs and teeth of some viper snakes.  materials & methods: this descriptive study was p...

Knowledge of evolutionary relationships or phylogeny allows for effective predictions about the unstudied characteristics of species. These include the presence and biological activity of an organism's venoms. To date, most venom bioprospecting has focused on snakes, resulting in six stroke and cancer treatment drugs that are nearing U.S. Food and Drug Administration review. Fishes, however, wi...

Changes to our understanding of venomous snake systematics, and the consequent changes in the nomenclature of these animals, have traditionally been a great source of confusion among biomedical researchers. This paper aims to facilitate access to the taxonomic literature by presenting a synopsis of the changes in venomous snake systematics that have taken place recently (primarily since 1992), ...

Snake bite is common condition that lead to great consequence in the rural area of tropical country. Although snakebite treatable, WHO listed as Neglected Tropical Disease. Epidemiology data not known exactly, real may be higher than inscribed. Both venomous and non-venomous snake are can fatal make victim consequences morbidity mortality. Non-venomous also have potential risk infection, coagul...

In this review, we evaluated venomous snakes in Turkey, as well as the symptoms related these venomations and principles of current first aid and treatments and possible complications. Geographically, mostly vipers as most venomous snakes were found to be in Turkey. The people who work or travel in agricultural areas should be aware of venomous snakebites in this country. Generally the symptoms...

Climate change and rapid habitat degradation have led to a decline in the population of snakes. Hence constant monitoring their diversity wellbeing is necessary. During present study under our Sarpa Sathi project, we surveyed for snake using time-constrained search, incidental encounters around Mysore city, Karnataka, India, first time. period three years, identified 24 species snakes, belongs ...