The Learning Zone

[ConcinusMan]

TKS Stefan, I couldn't remember where to put that.^^^

[gregmonsta]

That link'll do a good job of keeping me busy

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, no kidding. It would keep me busy looking up the "big" words, that's for sure.

[Stefan-A]

Saved them all. Will find time to read them through, once interstellar travel at 99% light speed becomes reality and I manage to hitch a ride.

[Stefan-A]

Does anyone have the full text version of this one:

The toxic Duvernoy's secretion of the wandering garter snake, Thamnophis elegans vagrans


Darwin K. Vest

Department of Zoology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, U.S.A.


Accepted 10 June 1981.
Available online 22 November 2002.

Abstract

The Duvernoy's secretion of the wandering garter snake (Thamnophis elegans vagrans) is highly toxic to mice, causing marked hemorrhaging in the lungs, diaphragm, mesentery and stomach lining, as well as mild local hemorrhaging. Systemic hemorrhaging was most pronounced in mice receiving doses approximating the p. ld50, while doses two times the ld50 or greater produced massive hermorrhaging in the lungs and diaphragm only. Local extravasations were directly proportional to dose. Oral secretions other than Duvernoy's secretion failed to produce lethal effects in mice challenged with doses up to 7 times the ld50 of Duvernoy's secretion. A micro-aspiration techniques for the collection of Duvernoy's secretion from colubrid snakes is described, and liquid as well as dried secretion yields for Thamnophis elegans vagrans are presented.

[gregmonsta]

I've tried but haven't found a free copy .... I will resume my usual pdf hunt this weekend and see if I can get to it.
Might be worth my trying to get a hold of it through the college system.

[gregmonsta]

Had a go today .... the American sites don't seem to see UHI as a research entity that would qualify for access.

[Stefan-A]

Yeah, the best I can do, is whatever is on SpringerLink. Correction, some of the articles on there.

[gregmonsta]

BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHARMACOLOGY

OF COLUBRID SNAKE VENOMS

http://www.unco.edu/biology/faculty_...y/colubrid.pdf

[gregmonsta]

Oops ... previously posted.