Is it possible to create snake venom in the laboratory and why is it needed?
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snake venom, you can create even in laboratory conditions
According to the data each year from dying from 81 000 to 138 000 people. Even if people manage to escape from death, often as a result of the damage and remove limbs and they become disabled. Recently, scientists from the Netherlands managed to create snake venom in the laboratory, but why they have developed technologies for the production of substances, which each year kills thousands of people around the world? And the thing is that snake venom also has properties that are able to save a much larger number of people. You already knew what was going on?
For more than two centuries snake venom is used to create a so-called anti-typhoid serum. For some people this may seem surprising, but it is — to create an antidote, scientists needed a sample of the poison. As a rule, they are collected in a special snake farms where each individual "milked" several times. Subsequently, the portion of the poison injected in the body healthy horses in the blood which for several months produced by the immune system. It is this blood and becomes the basis for anti-typhoid serum.
Artificial snake venom
As the number of snake bites each year thousands of samples of snake venom to create serum is often not enough. That's why Dutch scientists decided to create a technology for the production of venom in the laboratory. Thanks to her for getting toxic samples will not need to torment the serpent and mankind will be an inexhaustible source of compounds for drug development. Because in addition to the creation of anti-venoms, snake venom is used in the production of the means from problems of the cardiovascular system and for .
snake venom is used to create antidotes and medicines.
To create a source of snake venom, researchers were required to get the fabric of these snakes. For this, they revealed snake and eggs extracted from organisms not hatched young of the particles located behind the eyes and glands, and are responsible for the production of poison.
The Extracted tissue samples were placed in a solution of nutrients. As the scientists expected, the cells started to actively divide and after a week to excrete toxic substances. According to the researchers, modifying the surrounding conditions and required for cell division of the solution, they will be able to change the composition of the artificial poison. Also do not forget that they can use fabrics of different species of snakes. In the conducted research work are used fabric used shield of the South African cobras (Aspidelapsubricus cowlesi) and seven other species of snakes.
According to the toxicologist Jose Gutierrez Mark created by Dutch scientists, technology is a huge contribution to science. Perhaps, thanks to it after a few years with the production of antivenoms will not have any problems and the number of deaths from snake bites will be reduced many times over.
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