| comprehensive analysis of venom from the scorpion centruroides tecomanus reveals compounds with antimicrobial, cytotoxic, and insecticidal activities. | centruroides tecomanus is a medically important scorpion of the state of colima (mexico). this communication reports the identification of venom components of this scorpion with biological activity over insects/crickets (acheta domestica), crustaceans/fresh water shrimps (cambarellus montezumae), and mammalians/mice (mus musculus, strain cd1). it also describes the pharmacological effects on cell lines in culture (l5178y cells, hela cells, hutu cells and jurkat e6-1 cells), as well as on several ... | 2016 | 27130039 |
| presence of triatominae (hemiptera, reduviidae) and risk of transmission of chagas disease in colima, méxico. | with the purpose of evaluating the risk of transmission of the chagas disease in the state of colima, méxico, an entomological survey was performed to obtain triatominae and the rate of infection by trypanosoma cruzi determined by examination of its dejections. two hundred eighteen houses located in 16 villages were sampled. in each house the intradomestic and peridomestic habitats were examined by the man-hour-house method, sensor boxes and mouse-baited traps. also, 12 silvatic places were expl ... | 2002 | 11992142 |