Biology and ecology of venomous marine snails / / Ramasamy Santhanam, PhD
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| Autore: |
Santhanam Ramasamy <1946, >
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| Titolo: |
Biology and ecology of venomous marine snails / / Ramasamy Santhanam, PhD
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| Pubblicazione: | Waretown, NJ : , : Apple Academic Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 393 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 594/.3 |
| 594.3 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Sea snails |
| Poisonous shellfish | |
| Conidae | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Biology and ecology of venomous marine snails -- 3. Profile of venomous marine snails -- 4. Conotoxins -- 5. Envenomation of cone snails -- 6. Therapeutic uses of cone snail venoms. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The first comprehensive volume exclusively on marine cone snails, this book provides descriptions of over 100 species of hazardous marine snails along with their biological and ecological characteristics; the characteristics of conotoxins; information on cone snail injuries and their treatment along with prevention measures; and the therapeutic and medicinal value of conotoxins, including as a powerful nonaddictive painkiller, an epilepsy drug, and more. Over 275 color illustrations accompany the text for easy identification. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Biology and ecology of venomous marine snails |
| ISBN: | 1-315-34219-7 |
| 1-315-36641-X | |
| 1-77188-331-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910136079403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Biology and Ecology of Marine Life