"Scorpion Venoms" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Venoms from animals of the order Scorpionida of the class Arachnida. They contain neuro- and hemotoxins, enzymes, and various other factors that may release acetylcholine and catecholamines from nerve endings. Of the several protein toxins that have been characterized, most are immunogenic.
| Descriptor ID |
D012604
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D20.888.065.830 D23.946.833.065.830
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| Concept/Terms |
Scorpion Venoms- Scorpion Venoms
- Venoms, Scorpion
- Scorpion Venom
- Venom, Scorpion
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Scorpion Venoms" by people in Profiles.
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Mrugala MM, Adair JE, Kiem HP. Outside the box--novel therapeutic strategies for glioblastoma. Cancer J. 2012 Jan-Feb; 18(1):51-8.
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Morin TJ, Kobertz WR. A derivatized scorpion toxin reveals the functional output of heteromeric KCNQ1-KCNE K+ channel complexes. ACS Chem Biol. 2007 Jul 20; 2(7):469-73.
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Brugnara C, Armsby CC, De Franceschi L, Crest M, Euclaire MF, Alper SL. Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels of human and rabbit erythrocytes display distinctive patterns of inhibition by venom peptide toxins. J Membr Biol. 1995 Sep; 147(1):71-82.