Snake Venoms and Other Toxic Components Affecting Thrombosis and Hemostasis

摘要: Blood coagulation and platelet aggregation are the primary host defense systems against invasion by nonself factors such as viruses pathogens. Some exogenous proteins/peptides from snake venoms saliva of hematophagous organisms target blood systems. Many unique that do not exist in mammals have been isolated various salivary glands leeches ticks. These compounds specifically attack critical molecules prey hosts to disrupt destroy their homeostatic Such potent highly specific thus indispensable elucidating complex physiology mammalian aggregation. This chapter provides an overview structures functions venom toxins, proteins organisms, also some bacteria-derived affect