Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles

Bringing together contributions from many of the world's leading experts in toxinology, the "Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles" covers a broad range of topics relevant to a wide range of professionals including clinicians, biomedical researchers, herpetologists, and zoologists, as well as pharmacologists and evolutionary scientists. It discusses phylogeny and gland structure, venom enzymes and toxins, non-protein venom components, and envenomation and its treatment, including ideal treatments contrasted with that which is actually available in specific areas of the world. The text also addresses venom enzymes and assay procedures used to detect venoms along with venom toxins.
The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers “one-stop shopping” to all biologists, biochemists, toxinologists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians and epidemiologists, and informed laypersons interested in the biology of venomous reptiles, the biochemistry and molecular biology of venoms, and the effects and treatment of human envenomation. Written by experts from 12 countries, the book has both a broad perspective and international relevance. Unlike previous books addressing venoms, this volume bridges several very different areas in modern biology and provides a synthesis of current knowledge about venoms and venomous reptiles.
The cover shows a very striking picture of one of nature’s finest nonhuman combinatorial chemists, whose venom just might contain the cure for a human cancer or even diabetes