(1) The overall leptospirosis prevalence for rodents was 23.4 percent, and for mongooses it was 23.0 percent.
(2) Observations on the epidemiology and symptomatology of rabies in the Yellow Mongoose are reported and various methods of control are suggested.
(3) The distribution pattern of filiform papillae was similar both in the musk shrews and mongoose, in that the form of filiform papillae changed gradually from the lingual apex to the posterior part of the lingual body.
(4) It was shown that mongoose AcChoR does not bind alpha-BTX in vivo or in vitro.
(5) Surveys of the small mammal populations indicate rats, mice, and mongooses are the most important vectors in Hawaii.
(7) Mongooses are indigenous to Africa and Asia and have been introduced elsewhere.
(8) Population density probably determines the importance of the mongoose as a reservoir of rabies.
(9) Mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), hyena (Hyaena hyaena), cats and dogs were susceptible.
(10) The molecular weight of the factor was estimated to be 59,000 and 52,000 by a gel filtration and SDS-disc electrophoresis, respectively, suggesting that it consists of a single subunit, as we also found for the antihemorrhagic factors of the mongoose Herpestes edwardsii.
(11) The mongoose fragment is highly homologous (greater than 90%) to the respective mouse fragment.
(12) The sera of T. flavoviridis (Habu), H. edwardsii (mongoose) and D. semicarinatus (Akamata, non-venomous snake) were tested for their capacity to neutralize 28 species of hemorrhagic snake venoms in vitro.
(13) 119) of the Autumnalis serogroup in 1973, and its subsequent inclusion in our test battery of leptospiral antigens, high percentages of cattle, dogs, mongooses and man showed sero-positive reactions against the strain.
(14) The epithelium of the lingual dorsum of the mongoose, Herpestes edwardsi, was composed of two main areas: the interpapillary area, characterised by the absence of keratinisation; and the papillary area, characterised by hard keratinisation.
(16) Sequence comparison between species suggests that substitutions at positions 187, 189, and 194 are important in determining the resistance of mongoose and snake AcChoR to alpha-BTX.
(17) The thiourea treated mongooses display an increase in the number and size of the calcitonin cells.
(18) Histologically, the mongoose salivary glands were generally similar to those in other carnivores (dog, cat and ferret).
(19) The histology and mucosubstance histochemistry of the mongoose salivary glands were studied.
(20) In the current work, the prevalence of rodent and mongoose leptospirosis in the districts of Oahu was determined by the kidney-culture method.
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.