7 Amazing Animal Poisons

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Amazing animal poisons! These are the most dangerous & poisonous animals in the animal kingdom. Venomous creatures, which live in the wild.

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7: “Lighting Up” the Brain
Scientists have been using venom in order to better understand how nerve cells communicate with each other for decades. Venom has also helped them get a better sense of how chemicals bind to cells. Researchers at the University of California, Davis have discovered a technique in which they use tarantula venom to light up nerve cells.
6: Black Mamba Venom – Painkillers
Typically found in the African savannahs the black mamba is one of the most venomous snakes on Earth. Despite the snake’s fearsome reputation researchers have recently isolated pain-relieving compounds from the black mamba’s venom, which they aptly named mambalgins, a combination of the snake’s name and ‘algin’, referring to analgesic power. These peptides are as strong, or potentially even stronger, than some opiates, including morphine. Furthermore, mambalgins do not present the common side-effects associated with pain-reducing drugs or the risk of respiratory distress and they cause much less tolerance than morphine. Previous studies had shown that the venoms from certain snakes produced toxins that caused pain through the activation of acid-sensing ion channels, also known as ASICs, in the central and peripheral nervous system. The researchers discovered that by isolating these peptides they could minimize or even stop pain by targeting and inhibiting certain ASICs in the human body.
5: Scorpion Venom – Treating Cancer
For years, in the development of new drugs, medicinal chemists have taken something from nature and modified it to produce successful results. Nanotechnology offers the possibility of creating new drugs, based on venom, that have the potential of saving human lives. Aside from their obvious destructive effect, these toxins might also be useful. There are very potent substances. TsAP-1, a peptide isolated from the venom of the Brazilian yellow scorpion has both anti-cancer and anti-microbial properties.
4: Tarantula Venom – Muscular Dystrophy
Researchers from the University at Buffalo have found a chemical that might play a key role in a muscular dystrophy therapy in the venom of their pet Chilean rose tarantula. The most common form of this disorder is called DMD, or Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It typically affects boys at the age of four and progressively worsens as it breaks down or weakens their skeletal muscles. Most of the boys suffering from this condition are unable to walk by the time they are 12 and have, on average, a life expectancy of 26.
3: Bee Venom – Bomb Detector
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a sensor based on bee venom and carbon nanotubes. By coating the naturally fluorescent nanotubes with the peptides found in the bee venom the researchers have enabled detection of explosives at the highest resolution: a single molecule. In a way the peptides pick up the scent of certain molecules found in various nitroaromatic explosives, such as TNT.
2: Ionic Liquid Created in Nature
Ionic liquids are electrically conducting fluids, or electrolytes, that are used as catalysts for electronics, as industrial solvents, sealants or in the making of batteries. An ionic liquid is basically a salt in liquid form. These substances actually used to be called “molten salts.” A type of ionic liquid can be created by heating table salt to 1,474 degrees Fahrenheit. These substances can also exist at much lower temperatures and some salts are liquid at room temperature. Human beings have created numerous different types of ionic liquids to serve for various industrial processes, but up until a recent discovery, there had been no evidence of ionic liquids occurring in nature.
1: Pit Viper Venom – Alzheimer’s
Research into snake venom has revealed a wide variety of potentially beneficial uses. According to a recent study performed by researchers from the Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, snake venom can help break down amyloid plaques in the brain that are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Previous studies had identified a toxin protein called amyloid beta as one of the factors responsible for the onset Alzheimer’s. For healthy people enzymes degrade the amyloid beta toxin as it forms.