ReviewToxins2015
Recent Advances in Research on Widow Spider Venoms and Toxins.
Review in Toxins, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- The Venom Revolution in Biomedicine: Unlocking Nature's Toxin Toolkit for Therapeutic Innovation.Toxicology reports · 2026Review
- Backyard Proteomics: A Case Study with the Black Widow Spider.Journal of proteome research · 2025Article
- The Dissociation of Latrophilin Fragments by Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) Inhibits LTXToxins · 2025Article
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- Analysis of differentially expressed genes discovers Latroeggtoxin VI-induced changes and SYNJ1 as a main target in PC12 cells.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Chromosome-level genome assembly of the black widow spider Latrodectus elegans illuminates composition and evolution of venom and silk proteins.GigaScience · 2022Article
- The listed, delisted, and sustainability of therapeutic medicines for dementia patients: the study is specific to South Korea.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2022Article
- Transcriptomic Analysis of the Venom Gland and Enzymatic Characterization of the Venom ofToxins · 2022Article
- Toxinology in the proteomics era: a review on arachnid venom proteomics.The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2022Article
- De Novo Transcriptome Analysis of the Venom ofMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Pain-related toxins in scorpion and spider venoms: a face to face with ion channels.The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2021Review
- Widow spiders in the New World: a review onThe journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Partial proteomic analysis of brown widow spider (Toxicon: X · 2020Article
- Functional and Structural Variation among Sticholysins, Pore-Forming Proteins from the Sea AnemoneInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Ovarian Transcriptomic Analyses in the Urban Human Health Pest, the Western Black Widow Spider.Genes · 2020Article
- Spider Venom: Components, Modes of Action, and Novel Strategies in Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses.Toxins · 2019Review
- Pore-Forming Proteins from Cnidarians and Arachnids as Potential Biotechnological Tools.Toxins · 2019Article
- Alternative Transcription at Venom Genes and Its Role as a Complementary Mechanism for the Generation of Venom Complexity in the Common House Spider.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Eggshell spheres protect brown widow spider ( Latrodectus geometricus) eggs from bacterial infection.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Article
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Abstract
Widow spiders have received much attention due to the frequently reported human and animal injures caused by them. Elucidation of the molecular composition and action mechanism of the venoms and toxins has vast implications in the treatment of latrodectism and in the neurobiology and pharmaceutical research. In recent years, the studies of the widow spider venoms and the venom toxins, particularly the α-latrotoxin, have achieved many new advances; however, the mechanism of action of the venom toxins has not been completely clear. The widow spider is different from many other venomous animals in that it has toxic components not only in the venom glands but also in other parts of the adult spider body, newborn spiderlings, and even the eggs. More recently, the molecular basis for the toxicity outside the venom glands has been systematically investigated, with four proteinaceous toxic components being purified and preliminarily characterized, which has expanded our understanding of the widow spider toxins. This review presents a glance at the recent advances in the study on the venoms and toxins from the Latrodectus species.
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