Sentences with phrase «venom of a cobra»

«The teeth of shark, the speed of a cheetah, the venom of a cobra, the aggression of a velociraptor....»

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33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

There are reports out of Colombia and India that chiles are used to draw out the venom of poisonous snake bites; however, we'd place bets on the cobras» and bushmasters» venom being triumphant in these circumstances.

Species: Chinense Origin: Bangladesh Heat: Nuclear Add to my growing list Naga Morich meaning «snake or serpent Chile is an apt name for this ferociously hot variety as eating even the smallest slither of one of these pods is described by some as like drinking cobra venom!!.

A University of Queensland - led international study has revealed how one of the world's most feared types of snakes — cobras — developed their potent venom.

Associate Professor Bryan Fry of UQ's School of Biological Sciences said cobras were killers in Africa and Asia, and caused crippling social and economic burdens through the number of survivors who needed amputations due to the snake's flesh - eating venom.

Dr Nicholas Casewell said: «These are the first snake genomes to be sequenced and fully annotated and our results in relation to the king cobra provide a unique view of the origin and evolution of snake venom, including revealing multiple genome - level adaptive responses to natural selection in this complex biological weapon system.

The diversification of these toxins correlates directly with their functional importance in prey capture, for example the most pathogenic king cobra toxin family have undergone massive expansion, while, in contrast, venom proteins with less important functions do not participate in the evolutionary arms race occurring between snakes and their prey.

Armed with the both the king cobra and Burmese python genome the team was able to show that, despite previous hypotheses that venom genes evolve «early» in the lineage leading to snakes, venom gene families do not duplicate early, in fact the study shows that the rapid and extensive expansion of functionally important venom toxin families is restricted to the venomous «advanced» snake lineage.

Researchers from LSTM, along with a team of international biologists who have recently sequenced the genome of the king cobra, say that their work reveals dynamic evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system, which seemingly occurs in response to an evolutionary arms race between venomous snakes and their prey.

In the laboratory, the Australians tested the protein against the venom of six other snakes: the common brown snake, the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), Russell's viper (Vipera russelli), the half moon viper (Bothrops alternatus), the Central American moccasin snake (Agkistrodon bilineatus) and the western diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus atrox).

The scientists who sequenced the king cobra — which occurs in India, China, and Southeast Asia — focused on its venom, a very toxic mix of 73 peptides and proteins.

In some other snake venoms, toxic lectins are part of the mix, but in the cobra, lectins are never released into the venom.

In one of the studies, a team led by immunologist Mark Pepys of the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London, United Kingdom, treated mice with a protein from cobra venom that sops up a key complement protein.

The LD50 (individual dose required to kill 50 % of the population) for cobra venom is 20 µg / kg, but for saxitoxin the LD50 is only 10 µg / kg.

Spraying venom like a cobra, Vaughn's Beanie has squeezed a lifetime of resentment into the 10 years since college.

Making masterful use of the first - person narrative, he introduces Jimmy McShane, who is hired to solve the grisly murder of a shady dealer in rare antiquities and is pitted against a killer whose methods include cobra venom and disembowelment.