(n.) A poisonous serpent of Brazil (Bothrops jararaca), about eighteen inches long, and of a dusky, brownish color, variegated with red and black spots.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirty-four patients envenomed by Bothrops jararaca in Brazil were studied.
(2) Venoms of seven different Bothrops species and three subspecies (B. alternatus, B. cotiara, B. erythromelas, B. jararaca, B. jararacussu, B. moojeni, B. neuwiedi paranaensis.
(3) Bothrops jararaca venom extract, EDTA, rho-chloromercuribenzoate, 8-hydroxyquinoline and 2,3-dimercaptopropanol, previously reported as converting enzyme inhibitors, also inhibited carboxypolypeptidase activity.
(4) Two fibrinolytic enzymes, jararafibrase I and jararafibrase II, were purified from Bothrops jararaca venom.
(5) This inhibitor was also tested for neutralization of the lethality induced by the venom of B. jararaca and B. jararacussu.
(6) The blood coagulation and the fibrinolytic systems of nine patients envenomed by Bothrops jararaca in São Paulo (Brazil) were studied.
(7) The obtained serum fraction could effectively block the lethal effect of B. jararaca venom when jointly injected to laboratory mice by peritoneal route.
(8) The pharmacological modulation of mice paw oedema produced by Bothrops jararaca venom (BJV) has been studied.
(9) Incubation of Bothrops jararaca plasma (BJP) with trypsin released a substance (or substances) that produced hypotension in the snake but not in the rat; this hypotensive effect was also potentiated by captopril.
(10) We found previously that two fibrinolytic enzymes (jararafibrases I and II) purified from Bothrops jararaca venom displayed a haemorrhagic activity.
(11) This ELISA was a reliable tool in the determination of Bothrops jararaca venom levels in mouse serum, and may become useful in other fields of bothropic venom research.
(12) After reading a report of Calmette's anti-Naja serum, Vital Brazil raised monovalent serum against the venom of Bothrops jararaca and the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus.
(13) In addition, the profile of angiotensin I metabolites from the perfused adrenal was not altered by treatment with a converting enzyme inhibitor B. jararaca nonapeptide.
(14) The mechanism involved in the genesis of the rat paw oedema caused by intraplantar (IPL) injection of Bothrops jararaca venom (BJV) has been investigated.
(15) Crude venom from Bothrops jararaca has procoagulant, platelet aggregating and phospholipase A2 (PLA2) activities.
(16) Kininogens are the major mammalian plasma cysteine proteinase inhibitors; a kininogen-like protein was also found in the snake Bothrops jararaca plasma.
(17) The bradykininase activity is inhibited by EDTA, 2:3-dimercaptopropanol, nickel ions and some of the peptides from the venom of Bothrops jararaca and of Agkistrodon halys blomhoffii but not by 2-mercaptoethanol or N-ethylamaleimide.6.
(18) It inhibited caseinolytic and hemorrhagic activity of the whole venom of B. jararaca.
(19) The results show that the coagulating fraction of Bothrops Jararaca snake venom reduces intraoperative bleeding without influencing the haemostatic balance.
(20) Tissue factor apoprotein and relipidated tissue factor preparations extensively hydrolyze bradykinin, Lys-bradykinin, Met-Lys-bradykinin, substance P, [Asp1, Ile5]-angiotensin II, [Asp1, Ile5]-angiotensin I, and human fibrinopeptide A while acting more slowly on [Sar1, Ile5]-angiotensin II, [Me2Gly1, Ile5]-angiotensin II, bradykinin potentiating pentapeptide from B. jararaca, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone, melanocyte stimulating hormone-release-inhibiting factor (Pro-Leu-Gly-NH2), and oxytocin.
Snake
Definition:
(v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
(n.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
(v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
(v. i.) To crawl like a snake.
Example Sentences:
(1) Analysis of the product by equilibrium density centrifugation and processive hydrolysis with snake venom phosphodiesterase suggested that the noncomplementary nucleotides were present in phosphodiester linkage.
(2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(3) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
(4) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(5) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
(6) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
(7) The presence of proteins antigenically related to Bothrops asper myotoxins in various snake venoms, mainly from South America, was investigated by using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
(8) PCB residues occurred only in snakes collected near a heavily-traveled highway.
(9) Snake curaremimetic toxins are known to bind to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) [Changeux et al.
(10) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(11) The prevention of sea-snake bite and poisoning is considered.
(12) The prothrombin activator from the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus (Taipan snake) was purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and ion-exchange chromatography on QAE-Sephadex.
(13) In the anterior section of the snake, the vagal trunks contained many cell bodies with colocalized vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and substance P-like immunoreactivity.
(14) While the hemagglutination activity of each of the previously described lactose-binding snake venom lectins is inhibited by reducing agent, the activities of BML and JML are not affected by reducing agent.
(15) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(16) A platelet-aggregating activity was found in many snake venoms, predominantly those of the genus Bothrops, that is apparent only in the presence of the platelet-aggregating von Willebrand factor of plasma.
(17) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(18) By using snake-venom diesterase over short periods of incubation, it was confirmed that the ATP had been incorporated terminally as AMP into the placental tRNA.
(19) Pro-Morsi marches regularly snake from the sites, disrupting traffic across much of Cairo and causing further government frustration.
(20) The snake with the longest journey took nine months to reach its destination.