Although ophthalmoplegia following snake bites is not indicative of a serious neurotoxic complication, symptoms of diplopia, dizziness and ocular discomfort can be emotionally devastating for patients. The authors experienced two cases of ophthalmoplegia following snake bites in Korea. The patients complained of diplopia that had developed several hours after the snake bites. The diplopia did n...

The Brown Tree Snake (Boiga irregularis) has caused ecological and economic damage to Guam, and the snake has the potential to colonize other islands in the Pacific Ocean. This study quantifies the potential economic damage if the snake were translocated, established in the state of Hawai‘i, and causing damage at levels similar to those on Guam. Damages modeled included costs of medical treatme...

Objective: Envenomation by heamotoxic snakes constituted a critical health occurrence in the world. Bleeding is the most sever consequence following snake bite with viperid and crothalid snakes. It is believed that the degradation of vascular membrane caused hemorrhage; in contrast, some suggested that direct cytotoxicity has role in endothelial cell disturbances. This study was to evaluate the...

Abstract Background Snake bite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease with variable clinical presentation, neurotoxic manifestations (respiratory paralysis), rhabdomyolysis, cardiotoxicity, autonomic hyperactivity, and/or coagulation abnormalities. There limited data on the course of envenomation in an incidentally diagnosed COVID-19 patient. Case presentation A 17-year-old male history sna...

The reverence with which the average Hindu regards a snake is well known. In the Hindu mythology, Shesh Nag is believed to have protected God Brahma, and God Shiva gave the mark of Omega on the hood of the cobra. Shiva is depicted with snakes coiling around his neck and a snake emerging from the tuft of his hair. The snake is an emblem of the mystery of death, as well as of healing. If a snake ...

4 hours after the snake bite, when there has been ample time to exhaust endogenous clotting factors.3 Furthermore, the rate of recovery (based on INR) after antivenom treatment is expected to correlate with resynthesis of the consumed clotting factors. Notably, no reference was made to prothrombin levels after envenomation.3 We speculate that this information could provide greater insight into ...

Positional information along the dorsal-ventral axis of the Drosophila embryo is acquired through a signal transduction pathway which employs a extracellular protease cascade. The sequential activation of serine protease zymogens results in the ventrally localized production of a ligand in the perivitelline space of the embryo. Snake is one of several serine proteases which function in generati...

Elapid snake venom is a highly valuable, but till now mainly unexplored, source of pharmacologically important peptides. We analyzed the peptide fractions with molecular masses up to 10 kDa of two elapid snake venoms-that of the African cobra, N. m. mossambica (genus Naja), and the Peninsula tiger snake, N. scutatus, from Kangaroo Island (genus Notechis). A combination of chromatographic method...

PSO/Snake hybrid algorithm is a merge of particle swarm optimization (PSO), a successful population based optimization technique, and the Snake model, a specialized image processing algorithm. In the PSO/Snake hybrid algorithm each particle in the population represents only a portion of the solution and the population, as a whole, will converge to the final complete solution. In this model ther...

PURPOSE Ocular manifestations in snake-bite injuries are quite rare. However, the unusual presentations, diagnosis and their management can pose challenges when they present to the ophthalmologist. Early detection of these treatable conditions can prevent visual loss in these patients who are systemically unstable and are unaware of their ocular condition. To address this, a study was conducted...