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SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Flores MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8706654 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Alvarez-Flores Miryam Paola MP Gomes Renata Nascimento RN Trevisan-Silva Dilza D Oliveira Douglas Souza DS Batista Isabel de Fátima Correia IFC Buri Marcus Vinicius MV Alvarez Angela Maria AM DeOcesano-Pereira Carlos C de Souza Marcelo Medina MM Chudzinski-Tavassi Ana Marisa AM
Toxins 20211123 12
As a tribute to Butantan Institute in its 120th anniversary, this review describes some of the scientific research efforts carried out in the study of <i>Lonomia</i> envenoming in Brazil, a country where accidents with caterpillars reach over 42,000 individuals per year (especially in South and Southeast Brazil). Thus, the promising data regarding the studies with <i>Lonomia</i>'s toxins contributed to the creation of new research centers specialized in toxinology based at Butantan Institute, as ...[more]