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Spider Venoms

Spider Venoms
Author: P. Gopalakrishnakone
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9789400763883

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In recent years, the field of Toxinology has expanded substantially. On the one hand it studies venomous animals, plants and micro organisms in detail to understand their mode of action on targets. While on the other, it explores the biochemical composition, genomics and proteomics of toxins and venoms to understand their three interaction with life forms (especially humans), development of antidotes and exploring their pharmacological potential. Therefore, Toxinology has deep linkages with biochemistry, molecular biology, anatomy and pharmacology. In addition, there is a fast developing applied subfield, clinical toxinology, which deals with understanding and managing medical effects of toxins on human body. Given the huge impact of toxin-based deaths globally, and the potential of venom in generation of drugs for so-far incurable diseases (for example, Diabetes, Chronic Pain), the continued research and growth of the field is imminent. This has led to the growth of research in the area and the consequent scholarly output by way of publications in journals and books. Despite this ever growing body of literature within biomedical sciences, there is still no all-inclusive reference work available that collects all of the important biochemical, biomedical and clinical insights relating to Toxinology. The Handbook of Toxinology aims to address this gap and cover the field of Toxinology comprehensively.


Spider Venoms

Spider Venoms
Author: P. Gopalakrishnakone
Publisher:
Total Pages:
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Genre: Poisonous spiders
ISBN: 9789400766464

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Silk & Venom

Silk & Venom
Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0763642223

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Follows the firsthand search of arachnologist Greta Binford for the elusive Loxosceles, the deadly recluse spider.


The Brown Recluse Spider

The Brown Recluse Spider
Author: Richard S. Vetter
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2015-05-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0801456150

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The brown recluse is a fascinating spider very well adapted to dwelling in houses and other buildings. Because of this very quality and the ghastly reputation associated with the medical consequences of its bite, it has become infamous throughout North America. Although recluse spiders can cause serious skin injuries and, in very rare cases, death, the danger posed by this spider is often exaggerated as a result of arachnophobia and the misdiagnosis of non-spider-related conditions as brown recluse bites. These misdiagnoses often occur in areas of North America where the spider does not exist, making legitimate bites improbable. One of the greatest factors that keeps the myths alive is misidentification of common (and harmless) spiders as brown recluses. With this book, Richard S. Vetter hopes to educate readers regarding the biology of the spider and medical aspects of its bites, to reduce the incidence of misdiagnoses, and to quell misplaced anxiety. In The Brown Recluse Spider, Vetter covers topics such as taxonomy, identification, misidentification, life history characteristics and biology, medical aspects of envenomations, medical conditions misdiagnosed as brown recluse bites, other spider species of medical consideration (several of which have been wrongly implicated as threats to human health), and the psychology behind the entrenched reasons why people believe so deeply in the presence of the spider in the face of strong, contradictory information. Vetter also makes recommendations for control of the spider for households in areas where the spiders are found and describes other species of recluse spiders in North America. Although The Brown Recluse Spider was written for a general audience, it is also a valuable source of information for arachnologists and medical personnel.


Neurotoxins in Spider Venoms

Neurotoxins in Spider Venoms
Author: Yi Zhou
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1995
Genre: Spiders
ISBN:

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Neuroparasitology and Tropical Neurology

Neuroparasitology and Tropical Neurology
Author: Oscar H. Del Brutto
Publisher: Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2013-07-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 012807969X

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Cysticercosis, an infection caused by the cystic larvae of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, is one of the most frequent parasitic infections of the human nervous system (neurocysticercosis). It is endemic in most of Latin America, the sub-Saharan Africa, and vast parts of Asia, including the Indian subcontinent. It has also been increasingly diagnosed in developed countries because of migration of people from endemic zones and exposure in travelers. The life cycle involves the development of the adult tapeworm in the human small intestine (after ingesting infected pork with cysts) and larval infection in pig tissues (after ingesting human stools containing the eggs of the tapeworm). Humans get infected by the fecal-oral route, most often from a direct contact with an asymptomatic Taenia carrier. Most common clinical presentations are seizures (particularly late-onset seizures), chronic headaches, and intracranial hypertension. However, cysticerci can locate anywhere in the human nervous system, thus potentially causing almost any neurological syndrome and making clinical diagnosis a difficult task. Neuroimaging is the main diagnostic tool, and specific serology confirms the diagnosis and helps to define the diagnosis when images are unclear. Factors such as location (extraparenchymal versus intraparenchymal), number, size and evolutive stage of the parasites determine the clinical manifestations, therapeutic approach, and prognosis. Management includes symptomatic drugs (analgesics, antiepileptic drugs, anti-inflammatory agents) and in many cases cysticidal drugs, either albendazole or praziquantel. In recent years, efforts have focused on transmission control and potential elimination in endemic regions.


Spider-Man

Spider-Man
Author: Jim Shooter
Publisher: Marvel Universe
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2007-04-04
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

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Spider-Man becomes unraveled when his life is darkened by his shape-changing costume as well as his fashion sense.


Ion Channel Factsbook

Ion Channel Factsbook
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 1995-11-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080535194

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How do you keep track of basic information on the proteins you work with? Where do you find details of their physicochemical properties, sequence information, gene organization? Are you tired of scanning review articles, primary papers and databases to locate that elusive fact? The Academic Press FactsBook series will satisfy scientists and clinical researchers suffering from information overload. Each volume provides a catalogue of the essential properties of families of molecules. Gene organization, sequence information, physicochemical properties, and biological activity are presented using a common, easy to follow format. Taken together they compile everything you wanted to know about proteins but were too busy to look for.In a set of four inter-related volumes, The Ion Channel FactsBook provides a comprehensive framework of facts about channel molecules central to electrical signalling phenomena in living cells. The first volume is devoted to Extracellular Ligand-Gated Integral Receptor-Channel Families including those molecular complexes activated by: 5-Hydroxytryptamine, ATP, Glutamate, Acetylcholine, GABA, Glycine. Nomenclature Expression Sequence analyses Structure and function Electrophysiology Pharmacology Information retrieval


Advances in BioChirality

Advances in BioChirality
Author: C. Zucchi
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 417
Release: 1999-09-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0080526624

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Chirality is a fundamental, persistent, but often overlooked feature of all living organisms on the molecular level as well as on the macroscopic scale. The high degree of preference for only one of two possible mirror image forms in Nature, often called biological homochirality is a puzzling, and not yet fully understood, phenomenon. This book covers biological homochirality from an interdisciplinary approach - contributions range from synthetic chemists, theoretical topologists and physicists, from palaeontologists and biologists to space scientists and representatives of the pharmaceutical and materials industries. Topics covered include - theory of biochirality, origins of biochirality, autocatalysis with amplification of chirality, macroscopic (present) biochirality, fossil records of chiral organisms - paleochirality, extraterrestrial origin of chirality, exceptions to the rule of biological homochirality, D-amino acids, chemical transfer of chirality, PV effects, and polarised radiation chemistry.


Black Widow

Black Widow
Author: Raymond W. Thorp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1945
Genre: Black widow spider
ISBN:

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