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New predatory interaction of Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Nephilidae) on Fidicinini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in a forest fragment of the Neotropical region

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  New predatory interaction of Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Nephilidae) on Fidicinini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in a forest fragment of the Neotropical region Abstract Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Nephilidae) is an orb web-building spider whose diet is primarily based on flying insects. This note aims to report the first predatory interaction of T. clavipes on a cicada of the genus Fidicina (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in a fragment of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The predation event was observed (ad libitum) in the Benjamin Maranhão Botanical Garden situated in the Mata do Buraquinho Wildlife Refuge, northeastern Brazil. A specimen of Fidicina sp. was found freshly dead and trapped in the web of T. clavipes. The nephilid was observed moving slowly between the ventral and dorsal regions of the Fidicina sp. without weaving a web around the cicadid. Then, T. clavipes was observed perched on the left side of the Fidicina sp., with its pedipalps and chelicerae manipulating the thorax ...

Antivenom efficacy and Traditional Practices for Snakebite in Brazil: Where Do They Meet?

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A Paradigm Shift in Snakebite Envenoming Therapy: From Conventional Antivenoms to Rationally Designed, Broadly Neutralizing Combination Therapies

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Indian lone commercial antivenom against Indian red scorpion venom demonstrates limited immunorecognition and partial neutralisation of enzymatic, pharmacological, and some toxic effects of Heterometrus bengalensis (Indian black scorpion) venom proteins in vitro and in vivo

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Interspecific and Intraspecific Variation in Venom Proteomics, Composition, and Antivenom Efficacy of Thai Cobras (Naja spp.): Highlighting the Distinct Profile of the Newly Identified Naja fuxi

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In vitro-in vivo discord: a preclinical study of AZD2716 and its racemate with comparison to varespladib for the development of snake venom sPLA2 inhibitors

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A Novel Equine F[abʹ]2 Veterinary Antivenom for North American Viperid Snake Envenomation Demonstrates Efficacy by Rapid Serum Venom Removal and Improvement in Snakebite Severity Score

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Evaluation of the potential therapeutic efficacy of Cerastes cerastes venom in acute experimental toxoplasmosis

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Venomics across the Bothrops neuwiedi Species Complex Revealed a P-III Snake Venom Metalloproteases/K49-PLA2 Dichotomy and a Remarkable Paraspecific Neutralization of the Brazilian Pentabothropic Antivenom

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Functional and immunological variability of Viperid venoms across continents and cross-neutralization by Peruvian antivenoms

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Fibrinogen supplementation enhances antivenom efficacy in treating coagulopathy due to hemotoxic snakebite envenoming by Trimeresurus and Agkistrodon species in Yunnan, China

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