ArticleToxins2019
Pain and Lethality Induced by Insect Stings: An Exploratory and Correlational Study.
Article in Toxins, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Arthropod venom peptides: Pioneering nanotechnology in cancer treatment and drug delivery.Cancer pathogenesis and therapy · 2026Review
- Sting Stories: Firsthand Experiences of Fish Envenomation Through a Small-Scale Questionnaire.Toxins · 2025Article
- Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Therapeutic Potential ofBiomolecules · 2024Article
- [Bullet ant-more than just a painful sting].Dermatologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2024Article
- Multiple mechanisms of action of an extremely painful venom.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Species Discrimination of ThreeInsects · 2022Article
- Multipurpose peptides: The venoms of Amazonian stinging ants contain anthelmintic ponericins with diverse predatory and defensive activities.Biochemical pharmacology · 2021Article
- Armed stem to stinger: a review of the ecological roles of scorpion weapons.The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2021Review
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Abstract
Pain is a natural bioassay for detecting and quantifying biological activities of venoms. The painfulness of stings delivered by ants, wasps, and bees can be easily measured in the field or lab using the stinging insect pain scale that rates the pain intensity from 1 to 4, with 1 being minor pain, and 4 being extreme, debilitating, excruciating pain. The painfulness of stings of 96 species of stinging insects and the lethalities of the venoms of 90 species was determined and utilized for pinpointing future directions for investigating venoms having pharmaceutically active principles that could benefit humanity. The findings suggest several under- or unexplored insect venoms worthy of future investigations, including: those that have exceedingly painful venoms, yet with extremely low lethality-tarantula hawk wasps (
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