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Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center

24 Jun, 11 AM - 30 Jun, 11 AM

Some small mammals express blood proteins that inhibit the activity of toxins from rattlesnake venom. We are investigating the distribution, effectiveness, and specificity of these factors in communities of small mammals subject to rattlesnake predation. Resistance factors significantly enhance the fitness of adult ground squirrel prey of rattlesnakes, and may play an important role in the nutritional ecology of their predators. Knowledge of innate resistance in mammals may also lead to more effective therapy for the hemorrhagic morbidity of rattlesnake envenomation events in humans.

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Under Project # 8353 | Research

Small mammal resistance to snake venoms

faculty - Fairfield University

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James Biardi Jun 24 - 30, 2007 (7 days)

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