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snake venom

NOUN
  1. venom secreted by certain snakes

How To Use snake venom In A Sentence

  • The startling result was a marked increase in the density of the fibrillar halo around the ganglia incubated in the presence of the tumoral fraction treated with snake venom. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
  • He provided the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory with snake venom, including that of the taipan, for antivenom production.
  • Some types of snake venom prevent blood from clotting.
  • The Irula Snake Catchers' Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd. have now been licenced to extract venom, supply it to various institutions for preparing antivenin or anti-snake venom serum, and research.
  • There is a huge demand for venom, which is used to produce antivenin, the only known cure for the effects of snake venom.
  • Nicotine and the snake venom also bind these receptors with agonistic and antagonistic effects, respectively.
  • Snake venoms have different effects, some simply weakening or disorienting, others paralysing or killing the prey.
  • Snake venoms are a complex mixture of proteins, polypeptides, biogenic amines, and other components that may have neurotoxic, hemostatic, and/or hemorrhagic effects on prey.
  • Alternatively, in these cases NGF may subserve other functions which may somehow be linked with the poisonous action of snake venom, one can envisage the possibility that a highly specific neurotropic molecule such as NGF is utilized by reptiles as a carrier of other neurotoxins devoid of specific receptors in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
  • In addition, they differ in their binding ability to proteinases in crude snake venoms.
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