Snakes: An annotated bibliography

1. Utkin, Yuri N., and Alexey V. Osipov. "Non-Lethal Polypeptide Components in Cobra Venom." Current Pharmaceutical Design 13.28 (2007): 2906-2915. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 July 2011

In this article, Utkin and Osipov discusses about cobra snakes venom. They say that the effect of cobra bites is mainly neurotoxic, cytotoxins, and phospholopases A2. These three types of toxins constitute a major part of cobra venom. However cobra venoms contain also many other less abundant components which possess very low toxicity or even are not toxic at all. They said that most of the time cobra venom is deadly if a person didn’t went to a hospital and get treated within forty five minutes.


2. Feroze, A., S. A. Malik, and J. A. Qureshi. "Comparative Protein Fingerprinting of Venoms from common Cobra (Naja naja) and Saw-scaled Viper (Echis carinatus) of Central Punjab, Pakistan." Internet Journal of Veterinary Medicine 6.2 (2009): 1-9. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 19 July 2011
In this article Feroze and Qureshi discusses about the protein in cobra snake and saw-scaled viper snake. They say that in Pakistan, most snake venom studies have been conducted regarding the general or intra-specific characteristics of venom of a particular snake species. But in the present study attempts which have been made to permit the comparison between the venom of these two crucial species of Pakistan, and they found out that cobra venom is the deadliest snake venom.


3. Kasturiratne, Anuradhanil. Wickremasinghe, A. Rajitha1. de Silva, Nilanthi1.Gunawardena, N.Kithsiri1. Pathmeswaran, Arunasalam1. Premaratna, Ranjan1. Savioli, Lorenzo2, and Lalloo, David. "The Global Burden of Snakebite: A Literature Analysis and Modelling Based on Regional Estimates of Envenoming and Deaths." PLoS Medicine Vol. 5 Issue 11. Nov2008: pe218, 14p. Academic Search Premier

Janaka de Silva and her colleagues estimate that globally at least 421,000 envenomings and 20,000 deaths occur each year due to snakebite. And adds that the chances of dying from a venomous snakebite in the United States is nearly zero, because they have high-quality medical care in the U.S. Fewer than one in 37,500 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the U.S. each year, and only one in 50 million people would die from snakebite.　

4. Potts, D.T. "Revisiting the snake burials of the Late Dilmun building complex on Bahrain." Arabian Archaeology & Epigraphy 18.1 (2007): 55-74. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 20 July 2011.

The author in this article is discussing the well-known snake burials from the Late Dilmun building complex at Qalat al-Bahrain of pre-Islamic Arabian, Mesopotamian, Elamite, Avestan, and Vedic Indian evidence. Ancient attitudes towards snakes are reviewed with the aim of confirming or eliminating one or more of these traditions as the likeliest cultural context for the snake sacrifices of Bahrain