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Cardiotoxicity of Naja nubiae snakebites: A review and consideration

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Pharmacology and toxicology

Abstract

Snake bites are considered as one of the serious challenges facing people living in areas near the place of those snakes' habitat. Antivenin treatment though being the gold standard against expected toxicities, is not always present especially when toxicology centers are out of reach during cases of acute envenomation and injuries. Nubian spitting cobra or Naja nubiae is known to be major threat of hematological and cardiac toxicities in Upper Egypt. Although the main characteristic of its venom is being neurotoxic, cardiotoxicity due to high content of cardiotoxins and generation of reactive oxygen species is profound in cases of toxicity by envenomation. This review highlights the structure of cardiotoxins as the main component of Naja nubiae venom and lists different possible cardiotoxicities associated with it especially myocardial infarction and myocarditis. As well as possible future recommendations for those who are in risk of inhabiting or travelling to where these snakes are found.

DOI

10.21608/rpbs.2019.18479.1044

Keywords

Naja nubiae, Cardiotoxins, myocardial infarction, myocarditis

Authors

First Name

Mohammed

Last Name

M.

MiddleName

Elsayed

Affiliation

Pharmacology and toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Suez canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Email

mohamed.elsayed@pharm.suez.edu.eg

City

Porsaid

Orcid

0000-0001-7523-3405

First Name

Mona

Last Name

El-Azab

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Email

mona_elazab@pharm.suez.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-4982-445X

First Name

Yasser

Last Name

Mostafa

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.

Email

yasser_mostafa@pharm.suez.edu.eg

City

Ismailia

Orcid

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First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Rahmy

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Email

tarekrah@hotmail.com

City

Ismailia

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Volume

5

Article Issue

Pharmacology-Pharmaceutics

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20377

Issue Date

2021-01-01

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2019-10-20

Publish Date

2021-01-01

Page Start

14

Page End

20

Print ISSN

2536-9857

Online ISSN

2535-2091

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https://rpbs.journals.ekb.eg/article_137439.html

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532

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Records of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

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https://rpbs.journals.ekb.eg/

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22 Jan 2023