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Their focus: elapid snakes—a deadly family that includes mambas, cobras, and kraits. These snakes use neurotoxins that paralyze the nervous system. In severe cases, they stop the muscles that ...

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes and ethical concerns ...

Elapid venom contains peptides called short-chain neurotoxins (SNX) and long-chain neurotoxins (LNX). Both types of peptide bind to the same receptors on nerve cells, impairing communication ...

After analyzing his blood, they identified two broadly neutralizing antibodies that could target key components of neurotoxins produced by elapid snakes, which include cobras, kraits, mambas ...

Next, they determined which of the antibodies were broadly effective against two important types of neurotoxins found in the venoms of elapid snakes, a family of species including cobras ...

These snakes all belong to the elapid family of venomous snakes, and are members of the World Health Organization’s Category 1 and 2 snakes (the most medically relevant venomous snakes in the ...

"This antivenom is unparalleled because it works against many elapid species of snakes for which there is currently no effective antivenom," said Glanville. Currently, to neutralize different ...

The research, published in the journal Cell, showed that Friede’s blood had antibodies that could fight off three major types of neurotoxins used by elapid snakes. They created a combination treatment ...

“A 3-component cocktail rescued animals from whole-venom challenge of all species in a 19-member WHO Category 1 and Category 2 elapid diversity set, with complete protection against most snakes ...