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Jararaca
Definition:
(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.
Venomous
Definition:
(a.) Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.
(a.) Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.
(a.) Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
(2) Four new monochain phospholipases were purified from the Oxyuranus scutellatus (taipan) venom.
(3) The antibodies were used for identifying cross-reacting proteins in individual C. s. scutulatus and other Crotalus venoms and to isolate Mojave toxin.
(4) 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.
(5) The structure of the oligonucleotide-adenylate was determined by enzymatic digestion with base-nonspecific nuclease and venom phosphodiesterase.
(6) Admission venom levels also correlated with the extent of local swelling and the occurrence of tissue necrosis at the site of the bite.
(7) omega-Conotoxin GVIA is a peptide purified from the venom of the marine snail, Conus geographus, that specifically blocks voltage-sensitive calcium channels in neurons.
(8) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(9) We developed a continuous spectrophotometric assay of the phospholipase A2 activity specific for choline plasmalogen using rat liver lysoplasmalogenase and horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase as coupling enzymes and Naja naja venom phospholipase A2 as a source of the phospholipase A2 activity.
(10) Two polypeptides (protein S5C1 and toxin S5C10) were purified from Dendroaspis jamesoni kaimosae venom.
(11) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(12) 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.
(13) Phospholipase A2 from cobra venom (Naja naja naja) is a homogeneous, heat-stable enzyme that has a monomer molecular weight of only 11,000 and contains one histidine and one tryptophan residue.
(14) Surprisingly, whole-rat envenomation, using very large doses of venom, produced little dye leakage even though obvious symptoms of neurotoxic action were observed.
(15) Most double-helical segments were reactive to cobra venom ribonuclease to some degree; the exceptions were the five "long-range" helices that are probably compactly folded within the structure.
(16) Phospholipase A2 has been purified from the venom of Horned viper (Cerastes cerastes) by gel permeation chromatography followed by reverse-phase HPLC.
(17) Protamine sulphate in vitro antagonized anticoagulant properties but did not protect mice from toxic envenomation; because venom was also neurotoxic and showed a curare like effect at the neuromuscular junction.
(18) Only the enzyme from Naja naja naja (cobra) venom was found to be activated significantly by phosphorylcholine-containing compounds when hydrolyzing phosphatidylethanolamine.
(19) Factor X activator of Vipera russelli venom and esterase of T. mucrosquamatus venom did not have any effect on prothrombin.
(20) IgE antibodies from patients allergic to Vespula usually cross-react with V. crabro venom.