Title
Evolution of alternative methodologies of scorpion antivenoms production
Date Issued
01 January 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Author(s)
Carmo A.
Chatzaki M.
Horta C.
Magalhães B.
Oliveira-Mendes B.
Kalapothakis E.
Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Scorpionism represents a serious public health problem resulting in the death of children and debilitated individuals. Scorpion sting treatment employs various strategies including the use of specific medicines such as antiserum, especially for patients with severe symptoms. In 1909 Charles Todd described the production of an antiserum against the venom of the scorpion Buthus quinquestriatus. Based on Todd's work, researchers worldwide began producing antiserum using the same approach i.e., immunization of horses with crude venom as antigen. Despite achieving satisfactory results using this approach, researchers in this field have developed alternative approaches for the production of scorpion antivenom serum. In this review, we describe the work published by experts in toxinology to the development of scorpion venom antiserum. Methods and results describing the use of specific antigens, detoxified venom or toxins, purified toxins and or venom fractions, native toxoids, recombinant toxins, synthetic peptides, monoclonal and recombinant antibodies, and alternative animal models are presented.
Start page
64
End page
74
Volume
97
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Inmunología
Toxicología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84924914208
PubMed ID
Source
Toxicon
ISSN of the container
00410101
Sponsor(s)
Funding text
This research was supported by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil – CAPES (Edital Toxinologia 63/2010; and PNPD AUXPE 2262/2011 ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais – FAPEMIG (Process number APQ-00202-13 ) and by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil (CNPq).
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