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Sea Anemone Kunitz-Type Peptides Demonstrate Neuroprotective Activity in the 6-Hydroxydopamine Induced Neurotoxicity Model

Oksana Sintsova,
Irina Gladkikh,
Margarita Monastyrnaya,
Valentin Tabakmakher,
Ekaterina Yurchenko,
Ekaterina Menchinskaya,
Evgeny Pislyagin,
Yaroslav Andreev,
Sergey Kozlov and
Steve Peigneur
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Biomedicines2021, 9(3), 283;https://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9030283

10 March 2021

Kunitz-type peptides from venomous animals have been known to inhibit different proteinases and also to modulate ion channels and receptors, demonstrating analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anti-histamine and many other biological activities. At present,...

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Sea Anemone (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria) Toxins: An Overview

Bárbara Frazão,
Vitor Vasconcelos and
Agostinho Antunes

Mar. Drugs2012, 10(8), 1812-1851;https://doi.org/10.3390/md10081812

22 August 2012

The Cnidaria phylum includes organisms that are among the most venomous animals. The Anthozoa class includes sea anemones, hard corals, soft corals and sea pens. The composition of cnidarian venoms is not known in detail, but they appear to contain a...

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Proteomic Deep Mining the Venom of the Red-Headed Krait, Bungarus flaviceps

Alex Chapeaurouge,
Andreza Silva,
Paulo Carvalho,
Ryan J. R. McCleary,
Cassandra Marie Modahl,
Jonas Perales,
R. Manjunatha Kini and
Stephen P. Mackessy

Toxins2018, 10(9), 373;https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins10090373

13 September 2018

The use of -omics technologies allows for the characterization of snake venom composition at a fast rate and at high levels of detail. In the present study, we investigated the protein content of Red-headed Krait (Bungarus flaviceps) venom. This anal...

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Comparative Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Expression of Defense Pathways and Specific Protease Inhibitor Genes in Solanum lycopersicum in Response to Feeding by Tuta absoluta

Yan Zhou,
Yongyi Pan,
Jia Liu,
Wenjia Yang and
Guangmao Shen

Insects2025, 16(2), 166;https://doi.org/10.3390/insects16020166

5 February 2025

Understanding plant-insect interactions can help control the harm of herbivorous pests. According to transcriptome data, transcripts of Solanum lycopersicum responding to feeding by Tuta absoluta were screened for important endopeptidase inhibitors....

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