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Pathologic changes induced by phospholipase A 2 isolated from the venom of Collett's snake, Pseudechis colletti: A light and electron microscopic study
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Pathologic changes induced by phospholipase A 2 isolated from the venom of Collett's snake, Pseudechis colletti: A light and electron microscopic study

Scott A. Weinstein, Ronald C. Bell, Charles R. Brown, Jeffrey E. Fletcher, Leonard A. Smith and Leanice A Smith
Toxicon (Oxford), v 30(2), pp 171-185
1992

Abstract

Pseudechis colletti is an Australian elapid snake with a range limited to central Queensland, Australia. The venom of this snake, as well as that of several other Australian elapids, has been shown to contain a phospholipase A 2 (PLA 2) which can cause a marked myoglobinuria in mice. Few studies have described the histopathologic and ultrastructural changes that result from myotoxic PLA 2-induced damage. Our investigation demonstrated that the isolated PLA 2 induced myodegeneration and necrosis in myocardium in a dose-related manner, with subsequent myoglobinuria and myoglobinuric nephropathy.

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