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The effect of ultra-violet light on the toxicity and the enzymatic and antigenic activities of snake venom

Panee Tejasen, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1970 - 
- Vol. 8, Iss: 3, pp 225-230
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A decrease in toxicity and inactivation of all three enzymes studied was clearly shown and no difference could be detected in the immunological response of rabbits to untreated and irradiated venom.
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This article is published in Toxicon.The article was published on 1970-09-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Snake venom & Toxicity.

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Immune Response Towards Snake Venoms

TL;DR: The immune response to snake venoms, including those occurring in snakebite accidental envenomation, experimental vaccination and animal hyperimmunization for snake antivenom production are focused on.
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Influence of ionizing radiation on crotoxin: biochemical and immunological aspects.

TL;DR: The results indicate that irradiation of toxic proteins can promote significant detoxification, but still retain many of the original antigenic and immunological properties of native crotoxin.
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Irradiated Cerastes cerastes venom as a novel tool for immunotherapy.

TL;DR: Gamma irradiation effects on Cerastes cerastes venom showed that elicited antibodies to irradiated venoms were able to recognize native venom, and anti-2 kGy irradiated venom had more protective ability than anti-native venom, as tested in mice.
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Detoxification of snake venom using ionizing radiation

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that when a compound is irradiated in a solution, the indirect effect joins the direct effect when the primary event, i.e., ionization, is produced in the molecule itself, and this indirect effect results from the reactions among the studied molecules and the products of radiation interaction with water or other solvents.
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Effects of 60Co gamma radiation on toxicity and hemorrhagic, myonecrotic, and edema-forming activities of Cerastes cerastes venom.

TL;DR: Results indicate that irradiation of venom with a 2-kGy dose may offer an effective method for reducing the chronic toxic effects of venom in immunized animals.
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A simplified method of evaluating dose-effect experiments.

TL;DR: The method provides means for the rapid test of parallelism of two curves and easy computation of relative potency with its confidence limits and its accuracy is commensurate with the nature of dose-per cent effect data.
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A simplified method of evaluating dose-effect experiments

TL;DR: In this article, a rapid graphic method for approximating the median effective dose and the slope of dose-per-cent effect curves is presented, and confidence limits of both of these parameters for 19/20 probability are given by the method.
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