"Elapidae" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A family of extremely venomous snakes, comprising coral snakes, cobras, mambas, kraits, and sea snakes. They are widely distributed, being found in the southern United States, South America, Africa, southern Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. The elapids include three subfamilies: Elapinae, Hydrophiinae, and Lauticaudinae. Like the viperids, they have venom fangs in the front part of the upper jaw. The mambas of Africa are the most dangerous of all snakes by virtue of their size, speed, and highly toxic venom. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p329-33)
MeSH Number(s)
B01.050.150.900.833.672.350
Concept/Terms
Micrurus- Micrurus
- Coral Snake
- Coral Snakes
- Snake, Coral
- Snakes, Coral
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Elapidae" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Elapidae" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Elapidae" by people in Profiles.
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Bacteriology of Naja atra Snakebite Wound and Its Implications for Antibiotic Therapy. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 05 04; 94(5):1129-35.
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Protein interactions between the C-terminus of Aß-peptide and phospholipase A2--a structure biology based approach to identify novel Alzheimer's therapeutics. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets. 2014; 13(7):1224-31.
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Lactadherin inhibits secretory phospholipase A2 activity on pre-apoptotic leukemia cells. PLoS One. 2013; 8(10):e77143.
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Pain: morphine, metabolites, mambas, and mutations. Lancet Neurol. 2013 Jan; 12(1):18-20.
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Regulation of Kv1 channel trafficking by the mamba snake neurotoxin dendrotoxin K. FASEB J. 2007 Mar; 21(3):906-14.
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Purification, characterization, and amino acid sequence determination of acanthins, potent inhibitors of platelet aggregation from Acanthophis antarcticus (common death adder) venom. Arch Biochem Biophys. 1998 Jun 15; 354(2):232-8.
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A study on the functional subunits of phospholipases A2 by enzyme immobilization. Biochem J. 1994 Oct 15; 303 ( Pt 2):527-30.
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FS2. a mamba venom toxin, is a specific blocker of the L-type calcium channels. Artery. 1994; 21(5):287-302.