{"id":224887,"date":"2023-02-03T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=224887"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T06:10:04","slug":"current-insight-on-the-mechanisms-of-cobra-venom-cytotoxins-can-help-anti-venom-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/current-insight-on-the-mechanisms-of-cobra-venom-cytotoxins-can-help-anti-venom-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Current insight on the mechanisms of Cobra venom cytotoxins can help anti-venom therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Current insight on the mechanisms of Cobra venom cytotoxins can help anti-venom therapy<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>PIB <\/b>on <b>3rd February 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have traced the mechanisms of the toxic action of cobra venom paving a path towards developing strategies for application of antivenom which can help mitigate the local toxic effects of cobra venom retained at the bite site.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Cobra?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cobra is a species of highly venomous snake. It is widely distributed over Asia and Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cobra bites are responsible for large mortality and morbidity on these continents, including the Indian sub-continent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like other elapid venoms, cobra venoms are neurotoxic in nature. However, they also exhibit local cytotoxic effects at the envenomed site and the extent of cytotoxicity may vary from species to species.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What have the scientists developed against cobra venom?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cytotoxins (CTXs), non-enzymatic three-finger toxin is present in cobra venoms. It is contributing to about 40 to 60% of the cobra venom proteome and plays a significant role in cobra venom-induced toxicity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have traced the mechanism of cobra venom CTXs. This will help in developing strategies for application of antivenom or small molecule inhibitors which can help mitigate the local toxic effects of cobra venom retained at the bite site.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cCurrent insight on the mechanisms of Cobra venom cytotoxins can help anti-venom therapy\u201d published in PIB on 3rd February 2023 What is the News? Scientists have traced the mechanisms of the toxic action of cobra venom paving a path towards developing strategies for application of antivenom which&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/current-insight-on-the-mechanisms-of-cobra-venom-cytotoxins-can-help-anti-venom-therapy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Current insight on the mechanisms of Cobra venom cytotoxins can help anti-venom therapy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-224887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}