Talk:Calliophis bivirgatus

Venom

There is new study about venom:

Yang, Daryl C.; Deuis, Jennifer R.; Dashevsky, Daniel; Dobson, James; Jackson, Timothy N. W.; Brust, Andreas; Xie, Bing; Koludarov, Ivan; Debono, Jordan; Hendrikx, Iwan; Hodgson, Wayne C.; Josh, Peter; Nouwens, Amanda; Baillie, Gregory J.; Bruxner, Timothy J. C.; Alewood, Paul F.; Lim, Kelvin Kok Peng; Frank, Nathaniel; Vetter, Irina; Fry, Bryan G. (2016-09-15). Tygat, Jan (ed.). "The Snake with the Scorpion's Sting: Novel Three-Finger Toxin Sodium Channel Activators from the Venom of the Long-Glanded Blue Coral Snake (Calliophis bivirgatus)". Toxins. 8 (10). Basel, Switzerland: MDPI AG (published 2016-10-18): 303. doi:10.3390/toxins8100303. PMC 5086663. PMID 27763551. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |lay-date=, |lay-url=, |nopp=, |lay-source=, and |dead-url= (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

Neurotoxicity

The article claims that the a chief component of the venom is calloiotoxin, which is described as "a potent neurotoxin," but the article also claims that the bite's effects are not neurotoxic, but instead cytotoxic.

Agonism of Na channels would indicate neurotoxicity.

Only one of these can be true, though. 2603:7000:33F0:D20:C54D:7CBE:785A:5E72 (talk) 23:40, 4 May 2023 (UTC)