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List of works by Simon C. Wagstaff

A CD36-binding peptide from thrombospondin-1 can stimulate resorption by osteoclasts in vitro

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

A Decoy-Receptor Approach Using Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Mimics Reveals Their Potential as Novel Therapeutics Against Neurotoxic Snakebite

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Analysis of camelid IgG for antivenom development: Serological responses of venom-immunised camels to prepare either monospecific or polyspecific antivenoms for West Africa

scientific article published on April 2010

Analysis of camelid antibodies for antivenom development: Neutralisation of venom-induced pathology.

scientific article published on 20 April 2010

Bioinformatics and multiepitope DNA immunization to design rational snake antivenom

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Characterization of a novel protein from Proatheris superciliaris venom: proatherocytin, a 34-kDa platelet receptor PAR1 agonist

scientific article published on October 2005

Combined snake venomics and venom gland transcriptomic analysis of the ocellated carpet viper, Echis ocellatus

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Comparative 1D Blue-Native electrophoresis analysis of Plasmodium falciparum and human proteins associated with cytoadherence

scientific article published on 13 August 2018

Comparative venom gland transcriptome surveys of the saw-scaled vipers (Viperidae: Echis) reveal substantial intra-family gene diversity and novel venom transcripts

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Defining the pathogenic threat of envenoming by south african shield-nosed and coral snakes (genus aspidelaps), and revealing the likely efficacy of available antivenom

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Dissecting the organ specificity of insecticide resistance candidate genes in Anopheles gambiae: known and novel candidate genes.

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Domain loss facilitates accelerated evolution and neofunctionalization of duplicate snake venom metalloproteinase toxin genes

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Evolutionary analysis of novel serine proteases in the venom gland transcriptome of Bitis gabonica rhinoceros.

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Exploring the venom proteome of the African puff adder, Bitis arietans, using a combinatorial peptide ligand library approach at different pHs.

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Expression of Schwann cell-specific proteins and low-molecular-weight neurofilament protein during regeneration of sciatic nerve treated with neurotrophin-4.

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Firing the sting: chemically induced discharge of cnidae reveals novel proteins and peptides from box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) venom

scientific article published on 18 March 2015

Gene tree parsimony of multilocus snake venom protein families reveals species tree conflict as a result of multiple parallel gene loss

scientific article published on 8 November 2010

Intact protein mass spectrometry reveals intraspecies variations in venom composition of a local population of Vipera kaznakovi in Northeastern Turkey

scientific article published on 11 February 2019

Intra-specific variation in venom of the African Puff Adder (Bitis arietans): Differential expression and activity of snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs).

scientific article published on 21 December 2009

Isolation and characterization of renin-like aspartic-proteases from Echis ocellatus venom.

scientific article published on 19 July 2017

Medically important differences in snake venom composition are dictated by distinct postgenomic mechanisms

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Molecular characterisation of endogenous snake venom metalloproteinase inhibitors

scientific article published on 20 November 2007

Molecular cloning of Echis ocellatus disintegrins reveals non-venom-secreted proteins and a pathway for the evolution of ocellatusin

scientific article published on 7 July 2006

Molecular cloning of disintegrin-like transcript BA-5A from a Bitis arietans venom gland cDNA library: a putative intermediate in the evolution of the long-chain disintegrin bitistatin

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Pre-clinical assays predict pan-African Echis viper efficacy for a species-specific antivenom

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Purification and functional characterisation of rhiminopeptidase A, a novel aminopeptidase from the venom of Bitis gabonica rhinoceros.

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Repurposing the orphan drug nitisinone to control the transmission of African trypanosomiasis

scientific article published in 2021

Research strategies to improve snakebite treatment: challenges and progress.

scientific article published on 25 June 2011

Snake envenoming: a disease of poverty

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Stabilising the Integrity of Snake Venom mRNA Stored under Tropical Field Conditions Expands Research Horizons

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The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes

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The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes

scientific article published on 01 May 2017

The medical threat of mamba envenoming in sub-Saharan Africa revealed by genus-wide analysis of venom composition, toxicity and antivenomics profiling of available antivenoms

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

The transcription factor Maf-S regulates metabolic resistance to insecticides in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae.

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Transcriptomic meta-signatures identified in Anopheles gambiae populations reveal previously undetected insecticide resistance mechanisms

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Unusual stability of messenger RNA in snake venom reveals gene expression dynamics of venom replenishment

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VTBuilder: a tool for the assembly of multi isoform transcriptomes.

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Venom gland EST analysis of the saw-scaled viper, Echis ocellatus, reveals novel alpha9beta1 integrin-binding motifs in venom metalloproteinases and a new group of putative toxins, renin-like aspartic proteases

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What killed Karl Patterson Schmidt? Combined venom gland transcriptomic, venomic and antivenomic analysis of the South African green tree snake (the boomslang), Dispholidus typus

scientific article published on 24 January 2017