Bücher der Reihe Toxinology

It is by virtue of dedicated scientists that new toxins are discovered and that new insights arise, leading the way towards the investigation of their pharmacological effects, and hopefully, as a consequence, arriving at the discovery of venom components as new drug candidates.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of toxinology. It covers all areas of toxinology, including topics like bioterrorism, toxin evolution and toxin based drug development.

This handbook addresses various topics on clinical toxinology such as the epidemiology and management of snake and insect bites in Australia and different countries in Europe and the Americas.

Initially, because of the inadequate sensitivity of devices and other limitations, only major venom components of the dominant species were studied.

This volume, in its over two dozen chapters, constitutes an overview of the current plant toxin research. It covers from general aspects of plant toxicity to in-depth reviews of various classes of toxins, their structures, synthesis, modes of action, and upcoming uses in biotechnology.

This comprehensive reference gathers vital biochemical, biomedical and clinical details in Toxinology, spanning biochemistry, molecular biology, anatomy and pharmacology, and discussing the potential for venom-based drugs. Volume 2 covers Clinical Toxinology.

It is worth remembering that envenomation due to scorpion stings is a substantial health hazard in Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American countries, with over one million people stung by scorpions every year, resulting in more than 3,000 deaths.

Finally, it is also discussed how these toxins can be used as therapeutics and what the implications of such therapeutics are to their use as biothreat agents. This volume provides a reference accessible to scientists, educators, and medical experts alike with an interest in biotoxins, focusing on the major toxins used as bioweapons.

This volume provides an overview of microbial toxins from diverse bacterial and fungal origins.

This volume deals mainly with the specialized aspect of toxins and drug discovery. Although many drugs derived from plants and microbes have been discovered and being used in clinical practice, not many drugs have been developed from venoms and toxins although many laboratories worldwide are actively working on it.

This volume contains a section on the wider evolutionary context of venom in animals, the molecular evolutionary processes involved in generating diversity, and the concept of venom evolution as being driven by an arms race that also involves evolution of resistance to toxins by prey.

This volumeprovides the reader with recent advances in the fields of molecular toxinology,the biotechnological applications of venom toxins, and antivenom production.