Animal toxins : a collection of papers, edited by Findlay E. Russell and Paul R. Saunders

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Animal toxins : a collection of papers, edited by Findlay E. Russell and Paul R. Saunders

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a collection of papers

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edited by Findlay E. Russell and Paul R. Saunders

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• Animal toxins : a collection of papers

Publication

• Oxford | New York, Pergamon Press, 1967

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Sponsored by the International Society on Toxinology and the Division of Comparative Physiology of the American Society of Zoologists

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Contents

Section I. Arthropods -- Structure of the venom gland of the black widow spider Latrodectus mactans: a preliminary light and electron microscopic study / David S. Smith and Findlay E. Russell -- The venom of the honeybee (Apis mellifera): I, General character / Rod O'Connor ... [et al.] -- Venom of an East African orthognath spider / Zvonimir Maretic -- Isolation and characterization of a lethal component from the venom of Latrodectus mactans mactans / John D. McCrone and Robert J. Hatala -- Aphonopelma tarantula venom / Herbert L. Stahnke and Bob D. Johnson -- Molecular aspects of neurotoxic principle in venom of the scorpion Centruroides sculpturatus / Max E. McIntosh and Dean D. Watt -- The spider genus Latrodectus in Santiago Del Estero, Argentina / J.W. Abalos and E.C. Báez -- Section II. Marine organisms -- Ecological interactions of toxic dinoflagellates and molluscs in the Gulf of Mexico / Sammy M. Ray and David V. Aldrich -- Differentiation of the poisons of fish, shellfish and plankton / E.F. McFarren -- Biochemical studies on purified Gonyaulax catenella poison / Edward J. Schantz -- Block of sensory nerve conduction in the cat by mussel poison and tetrodotoxin / M.H. Evans -- Comparison of the biological actions of tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin / C.Y. Kao -- Extraction of cnidarian venom from living tentacle / J.H. Barnes -- Recent observations on the pharmacology of Physalia toxin / Charles E. Lane -- The venom of the piscivorous gastropod Conus striatus / R. Endean, Joan Izatt and D. McColm -- A biologically active substance from the spines of two diadematid sea urchins / Charles B. Alender -- Marine toxins from the Pacific: I, Advances in the investigation of fish toxins / Albert H. Banner -- Fresh water venomous rays / Mariano N. Castex -- The venom apparatus of the European star-gazer Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus / Bruce W. Halstead and Arthur E. Dalgleish -- Physiological and pharmacological studies on extracts of the western Atlantic puffer Spheroides maculatus / Edward Larson ... [et al.] -- Section III. Snakes and amphibians -- The structure of the venom gland and secretion of venom in viperid snakes / Elazar Kochva and Carl Gans -- Epidemiological methods in studying venomous snakebites / Henry M. Parrish and William B. Neser -- Observations on toxicity and antigenic makeup of venoms from juvenile snakes / Sherman A. Minton Jr. -- Observations on Dendroaspis venoms / P.A. Christensen and C.G. Anderson -- Production by snake venoms of uncoupling activity and reverse acceptor control in rat liver mitochondrial preparations / W.B. Elliott and Carl Gans -- Toxicological studies on the venom of the sea snake Laticauda laticaudata affinis / Tsuchih Tu -- Studies on sea snake venoms: crystallization of erabutoxins "a" and "b" from Laticauda semifasciata venom and of laticotoxin "a" from Laticauda laticaudata venom / Nobuo Tamiya, Hiroko Arai and Showbu Sato -- Pharmacological properties of the neurotoxin of cobra venom / C. Su, C.C. Chang, and C.Y. Lee -- Pathophysiological studies of ten snake venoms / James A. Vick, Henry P. Ciuchta and James H. Manthei -- Low molecular weight toxins isolated from Elapidae venoms / George A. Fischer and Jon J. Kabara -- Studies on some antigenic proteins and polypeptides from Naja nigricollis venom / P. Boquet ... [et al.] -- Enhancement of immunogenicity of snake venom neurotoxins / Chaya Moroz ... [et al.] -- Neurotoxic protein of Vipera palestinae venom / Chaya Moroz, Andre de Vries and Michael Sela -- Differentiation between Bothrops nummifer and Bothrops picadoi by means of the biochemical properties of their venoms / Jesús M. Jiménez-Porras -- Defibrination by Agkistrodon rhodostoma venom / H. Alistair Reid -- Significance of the local tissue responses to venoms in normal and in sensitized mice / R.D. Higginbotham and J.M. Clark -- Chemical differences in the venoms of genetically different snakes / Anthony T. Tu, Paul M. Toom, and David S. Murdock -- Acetylcholine in snake venoms / John H. Welsh -- The direct and indirect hemolytic factors from animal venoms / Karl H. Slotta, J.D. Gonzalez and S.C. Roth -- Use of venoms in testing for essentiality of cholinesterase in conduction / Philip Rosenberg and Wolf-Dietrich Dettbarn -- Biochemistry of the cytotoxin action of amphibian poisons / Erich Kaiser and Robert Kramar -- Chemistry of cytotoxic substances in amphibian toxins / H. Bachmayer, H. Michl and B. Roos -- Section IV. General -- Effects of venoms on nerve, muscle and neuromuscular junction / Itzchak Parnas and Findlay E. Russell

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559516

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26 cm

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1st ed..

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xiii, 428 pages

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66029612

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