De Novo Assessment and Review of Pan-American Pit Viper Anticoagulant and Procoagulant Venom Activities via Kinetomic Analyses

De Novo Assessment and Review of Pan-American Pit Viper Anticoagulant and Procoagulant Venom Activities via Kinetomic Analyses

Snakebite with hemotoxic venom continues to be a major source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Our laboratory has characterized the coagulopathy that occurs in vitro in human plasma via specialized thrombelastographic methods to determine if venoms are predominantly anticoagulant or procoagulan...

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Main Authors: Vance G. Nielsen, Nathaniel Frank, Sam Afshar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-02-01
Series:Toxins
Subjects:
hemotoxic venom
prothrombin activator
thrombin-like activity
fibrinogenolytic activity
carbon monoxide
heme
metheme
thrombelastography
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/11/2/94

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