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unusual facts about venom



Ablomin

The protein ablomin is a component of the venom of the Japanese Mamushi snake, Gloydius blomhoffi.

Allan Blair

Allan Walker Blair (1900 – 1947) was a professor at the University of Alabama's medical school who is best known for allowing himself to be bitten by a black widow spider in order to investigate the toxicity of its venom in humans.

Ancrod

Ancrod is prepared from the crude venom of the Malayan pit viper (Agkistrodon rhodostoma, also termed Calloselasma rhodostoma) and belongs to the group of proteolytic enzymes.

Bill Haast

Soon after opening the Serpentarium Haast began experimenting with building up an acquired immunity to the venom of King, Indian and Cape cobras by injecting himself with gradually increasing quantities of venom he had extracted from his snakes, a practice called mithridatism.

Bobby Bones

His acting debut was a role in the 2008, American independently produced film The Legend of God's Gun in which he played a gun-slinging preacher returning to the debaucherous town of Playa Diablo seeking revenge from the notorious scorpion-venom drinking bandito El Sobero.

Bolivar Trask

Trask is also mentioned in Ultimate Spider-Man as the employer of Richard Parker and Edward Brock Sr. (the fathers of Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Eddie Brock/Venom) that stole their cancer cure project (the Venom suit) because he was more interested in military applications.

Captain Vyom

Venom (played by supermodel Madhu Sapre and later by Achint Kaur): An expert of poisons and toxins, herself had a snake like appearance.

Chlorotoxin

Chlorotoxin is a 36-amino acid peptide found in the venom of the deathstalker scorpion (Leiurus quinquestriatus) which blocks small-conductance chloride channels.

Collett's snake

The venom produced by the Collett's Snake is similar to the Papuan Black Snake's and Mulga Snake's venom.

Corpse paint

In the 1980s, Hellhammer, Venom, Death SS and King Diamond of Mercyful Fate (who used corpse paint as early as 1978 in his band Black Rose) were the first extreme metal groups to use corpse paint.

Crotalus tortugensis

Klauber (1956) gives an average venom yield of 56 mg for this species.

Cupiennin

Cupiennins are a group of small cytolytic peptides from the venom of the wandering spider Cupiennius salei.

Dilute Russell's viper venom time

This in vitro diagnostic test is based on the ability of the venom of the Russell's viper to induce thrombosis.

Ecarin clotting time

Ecarin, the primary reagent in this assay, is derived from the venom of the saw-scaled viper, Echis carinatus.

Equatorial spitting cobra

The venom of the Equatorial spitting cobra exhibited the common characteristic enzymatic activities of Asiatic spitting cobra venoms: low protease, phosphodiesterase, alkaline phosphomonoesterase and L-amino-acid oxidase activities, moderately high acetylcholinesterase and hyaluronidase activities and high Freek Vonk

In September 2012 Vonk defended his PhD, with a thesis entitled Snake evolution and prospecting of snake venom at Leiden University.

Glaucus atlanticus

atlanticus preys on other, larger pelagic organisms: the dangerously venomous Portuguese Man o' War Physalia physalis; the by-the-wind-sailor Velella velella; the blue button Porpita porpita; and the violet snail, Janthina janthina.

Hadronyche macquariensis

Hadronyche macquariensis, the Port Macquarie funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider, one of a number of Australian funnel-web spiders found in New South Wales.

Itri

The quiet Amyclaeans were struck by the cursed and numerous forces of the swamp, unstoppable beings such as the monstrous serpent with nine heads, the Lernaean Hydra, which attacked from the swamps with poisonous venom, and whose heads would re-grow as quickly as Hercules could slice them off with his sword.

Jararhagin

This endopeptidase is present in the venom of the jararaca snake (Bothrops jararaca).

Jeffrey Dunn

In 1986 he left Venom to form the band Mantas which so far has recorded two full-length albums: Winds of Change in 1988, and Zero Tolerance in 2004.

2010 Jeff Dunn and former Venom members, Antony "Antton" Lant (drums; brother of Venom frontman Conrad "Cronos" Lant) and Tony "The Demolition Man" Dolan (bass, vocals) are back with their new band, initially called Primevil but now Mpire of Evil.

Lisinopril

Like other ACE inhibitors, it is a synthetic functional and structural analog of a peptide derived from the venom of the jararaca, a Brazilian pit viper (Bothrops jararaca).

Little Things of Venom

Track four, "Little Things Of Venom", was used in the soundtrack for the IMAX 3-D film Haunted Castle (2001), in which lead singer Steverlinck also starred.

Lonomia

The larvae, like most hemileucines, are covered with urticating hairs, but these caterpillars possess a uniquely potent anticoagulant venom.

Merciless Death

After recording a self released Demo, Annihilate the Masses, and self released album Evil in the Night, the band soon signed to Heavy Artillery Records and re-released their debut album Evil in the Night with a new layout and cover artwork by Ed Repka (Evildead, Megadeth, Nuclear Assault, Toxik, Venom).

Mesobuthus eupeus

These two venom-derived proteins are therefore attractive candidates for the development of anti-malarial drugs.

Mir Zafar Ali

He also played a role in creating the effects of bringing the villain ‘Venom’ to life in the movie Spider-Man 3.

Mussurana

The mussurana's immunity to bothropic venom was studied by the Brazilian scientist Vital Brazil in the 1920s.

Myotoxin

The first myotoxin to be identified and isolated was crotamine, from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus, a tropical South American rattlesnake, by Brazilian scientist José Moura Gonçalves, in the 1950s.

Nerodia erythrogaster

Nerodia erythrogaster, commonly known as the plain-bellied water snake or plainbelly water snake, is a familiar species of mostly aquatic, nonvenomous, colubrid snake endemic to the United States.

Red Ghost

Alongside Klaw, Living Laser, and Venom during the Acts of Vengeance, he attempted to steal alien technology from the Watcher's home on the moon.

Ringhals

Rinkhals, a venomous species of snake with the ability to spit venom.

Sensory systems in fish

Bee venom and acetic acid injected into the lips resulted in fish rocking their bodies and rubbing their lips along the sides and floors of their tanks, which the researchers concluded were attempts to relieve pain, similar to what mammals would do.

Sigyn

In the prose, Loki has been bound by the gods with the guts of his son Nari, his son Váli is described as having been turned into a wolf, and the goddess Skaði fastens a venomous snake over Loki's face, from which venom drips.

Spider-Man: Friend or Foe

Meanwhile, Spider-Man is rescued by Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., who informs him that the meteor which brought the Venom symbiote to Earth had broken up in the Earth's atmosphere and five more pieces had landed in numerous locations across the globe.

Spitting Venom

Spitting Venom is the debut, self-released EP from English heavy metal band Savage Messiah.

The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes

Spider-Man battles various villains throughout the game - Beetle, Lizard, Mysterio, Alistair Smythe, Green Goblin, Scorpion, Venom, Doctor Octopus, and Carnage.

The Awesome Snakes

In July 2006, Crustacean Records issued the Awesome Snakes' full length debut CD, Venom.

The History of Henry Esmond

Particular venom is directed at Swift for the abundant leisure he had at the vicarage in Trim, County Meath for cultivating his garden, making a canal (after the Dutch fashion of Moor Park), and planting willows.

The Spider Woman

Holmes sets himself up as her next victim, discovering that she uses the deadly spider, Lycosa Carnivora, whose venom causes such excruciating pain that the victims kill themselves.

Venetia Stanley

Digby reported that she had always been healthy, but had suffered occasional headaches through the previous eight years, for which she took "viper-wine" (which could have been one of several concoctions involving vipers or their venom in wine, and which in any case is not likely to have been toxic through ingestion).

Xibalbanus tulumensis

Xibalbanus tulumensis (previously Speleonectes tulumensis – Speleonectes = 'cave swimmer'; tulumensis = 'occurring at Tulum' – Xibalbanus = 'from Xibalba') is a venomous, hermaphroditic crustacean found in anchialine caves on the Yucatán Peninsula in the Caribbean Sea.

Zimmers Hole

The dude from Forbidden, at one point, turned to Dave and said, "Dude, when you were shouting at the devil a reference to Mötley Crüe, I was in league with Satan a reference to Venom," and Jed was in the room and picked up on that.


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