Toxicology
- The composition of snake venom from a single species of venomous snake can consist of up to 100 different toxic elements, including enzymes (constituting 80-90% of viperid; 25-70% of elapid venoms), as well as non-enzymatic polypeptide toxins (Tednes M and Slesinger TL, 2022).
- Venom enzymes include digestive hydrolases, hyaluronidase, and activators or inactivators of physiological processes, such as kininogenase.
- Other common venom enzymes include L-amino acid oxidase, phosphomono- and diesterases, 5’-nucleotidase, DNAase, NAD-nucleosidase, phospholipase A2, and peptidases (World Health Organization, 2010).
- Venoms of Vipers and . . .
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