Nuno Alvares Pereira

TL;DR: From the evidence presented, it can be inferred that micromolecules which neutralize the action of snake venoms mechanistically replace endogenous antitoxic serum proteins with venom neutralizing capacity such as produced by some animals.

TL;DR: It is observed that several plants used popularly as anti-snake venom show anti-inflammatory activity and several species selected and tested for analgesic activity and anti- inflammatory activity according to Whittle's technique demonstrated analgesic and/or anti- inflammation activities of varied intensity.

TL;DR: Fifteen Compounds, isolated from plants reputed as snake venom antidotes, belonging to different classes of natural products, were shown to protect mice to a significant degree against the lethal action of the venom of BOTHROPS JARARACA snakes.

TL;DR: A mixture containing a new triterpene, chamaedrydiol (urs-12-ene-2α,3β-diol), and three known triterpenes (lup-20(29)-ene- 2α, 3β-Diol, castanopsol and epigermanidiol) was isolated from Marsypianthes chamaeds as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Three polysaccharides were isolated from dried roots of Periandra mediterranea by fractionation on Sephacryl S-300 HR and Sephadex G-25 and indicated that they have a highly branched glucan type structure composed of alpha-(1-->4) linked D-glucopyranose residues with both (3-->4 and (4-->6) branching points.