Agonists of melatonin receptors strongly promote the functional recovery from the neuroparalysis induced by neurotoxic snakes.

• Hoofdauteurs: Giorgia D'Este (Auteur), Federico Fabris (Auteur), Marco Stazi (Auteur), Chiara Baggio (Auteur), Morena Simonato (Auteur), Aram Megighian (Auteur), Michela Rigoni (Auteur), Samuele Negro (Auteur), Cesare Montecucco (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Snake envenoming is a major, but neglected, tropical disease. Among venomous snakes, those inducing neurotoxicity such as kraits (Bungarus genus) cause a potentially lethal peripheral neuroparalysis with respiratory deficit in a large number of people each year. In order to prevent the development o...